Republicans no longer allowed to celebrate Cinco de Mayo
 

If you want to build a wall..... You shouldn't be allowed to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.

Just saying.

Your really fucking stupid if you think this has anything to do with being Mexican, most of the people crossing the border are NOT from Mexico you moron!

Where I grew up you couldn't drive on main Street on Cinco De Mayo

Where you live used to be part of Mexico... Where you live Spanish was spoken long before English,.

When Spanish explorers in the 16th century first discovered the Baja California peninsula west of the Sea of Cortez, they believed the peninsula to be a large island. The name "California" was applied to the supposed island, and was probably a reference to a mythical island described in a popular novel of the time: Las Sergas de Esplandián. Several other origins have been suggested for the word "California", including Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, South Asian, and American Indian origins. All of these are disputed.[1]

California originally referred to the entire region composed of the Baja California peninsula now known as Mexican Baja California and Baja California Sur, and the upper mainland now known as the U.S. states of California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. After Mexico's independence from Spain, the upper territory became the Alta California province. In even earlier times, the boundaries of the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean coastlines were only partially explored and California was shown on early maps as an island. The Sea of Cortez is also known as the Gulf of California



Isn't it ironic that Vendildo, Grapesoda, Baddog all live in a state settled by Spanish speaking people and they are outraged about people speaking Spanish there...

In fact what is now the United States was discovered by Spanish speaking people, so why do Red Hats hate America so much?

Fuck that day. And that shit beer

You should move out of FL after all it was discovered and settled by Spanish speaking people. The Name Florida is a Spanish name. That must make you mad every time you tell someone what state you're from..


Florida was named by explorer Ponce de Leon in 1513.
The name "Florida" comes from the Spanish word "florido," which means "full of flowers," or "flowery."

Spanish was spoken here long before English so maybe you should go somewhere settled by white English speaking people so you aren't so angry all the time..


You should probably move some place like New Jersey or New York, you know those states which were settled by white people.. Oh shit wait you can't go to New York or NJ that was Dutch, Sweeds & Finns.. you need to go to Maryland I guess.. I would say Massachusetts but we know that would make you mad because it's named after Indians who lived their 1st.


Isn't that interesting Duke that even at the earliest stages of this Country's foundations that English was spoken by only a small minority of people. The majority of this country was founded by non English speaking people.. sort of a melting pot... Amazing isn't it?

Damn you are stupid!

Trump said many times on national television that Mexicans are rapists, murderers, gang members and thieves.

This is why Rockhard said Republicans have no right to celebrate Cinco de Mayo you stupid dipshit

:1orglaugh wtf

It has everything to do with Mexicans. More specifically "brown people" - from South America. That's the Trump Party platform isn't it?

What does mexico have to do with South America?

Why do you live in a Liberal blue state? If you support right wing and Trump policies why don't you move to the Redneck Rivera in one of those "fine upstanding Red states??

Um, fuck that is a stupid thing to post. It's a Mexican holiday you moron, not a Hispanic holiday. I grew up celebrating this holiday, it's my brother's birthday, you clearly don't have a fucking clue what it's about

Why do you idiots always make these stupid arguments?

California has been part of the USA for 170 years. It was inhabited and built by whites. Does that make you mad?

So if you're against illegal immigration you're not allow to celebrate Cinco de Mayo?

Didn't you say you're against illegal immigration?

Clearly you're not paying attention

Trump said many times on national television that Mexicans are rapists, murderers, gang members and thieves.

This is why Rockhard said Republicans have no right to celebrate Cinco de Mayo you stupid dipshit

That shit head Cricket thinks that there isn't a difference between illegal aliens and Spanish speaking people, he's fucking retarded. My high School was named after a Mexican, my 6th grade class taught Spanish. My mom made homemade Mexican food for us all the time. chorizo and eggs burritos for breakfast. But these dense retarded fucks think that we are racist, fuck you all the pieces of shit that think that. You are fucking retarded!

Rochard y Cricket estas loco en LA cavesa. Chiquito pinto

California, Calafia, Khalif: The Origin of the Name "California"
 

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Mural of Queen Calafia and her Amazons in the Room of the Dons at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California.

California, Calafia, Khalif: The Origin of the Name "California"

The California of 16th Century Spanish Explorers
The name "California" derives from a 16th Century romance novel written by a Spanish author named Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo. It was titled, "Las Sergas del muy esforzado caballero Esplandian, hijo del excelente rey Amadis de Gaula," meaning "The exploits of the very powerful cavalier Esplandian, son of the excellent king Amadis of Gaul."

The novel described an island, very close to the Garden of Eden, full of gold, which was ruled by strong and beautiful black women. This island was also populated by griffins, a fantastical lion-eagle hybrid, which the women kept as pets. Any man who found his way onto this island was killed and fed to the griffins. The name of this mythical island? California.

Montalvo described it as follows:

"Know that, on the right hand of the Indies was an island called California, very near to the region of the Terrestrial Paradise, which was populated by black women, without there being any men among them, that almost like the Amazons was their style of living. They were of vigorous bodies and strong and ardent hearts and of great strength; the island itself the strongest in steep rocks and cliff boulders that is found in the world; their arms were all of gold, and also the harnesses of the wild beasts, on which, after having tamed them, they rode; that in all the island there was no other metal whatsoever... On this island, called California there were many griffins ... and in the time that they had young these women would --- take them to their caves, and there raise them. And ... they fattened them on those men and the boys that they had born... Any make that entered the island was killed and eaten by them ... There ruled on that island of California, a queen great of body, very beautiful for her race, at a flourishing age, desirous in her thoughts of achieving great things, valiant in strength, cunning in her brave heart, more than any other who had ruled that kingdom before her ... Queen Calafia."

How did the name of this mythical island become the name of the 31st state of the union? Spanish explorers during the 1500s were familiar with the story and applied the name to what is now called Baja California, which at the time, they thought was an island. Based on legends prevalent at the time, Spanish explorers were searching for a mythical island paradise. Even though it later became clear that Baja California was not an island, once the name started being used on maps, it stuck.

California's Islamic Origin
So 16th century Spanish explorers got the name from Montalvo's story, but where did Montalvo get the name? Muslims.

The inspiration for the word was likely "Khalif" or "Khalifa" which means "successor" in Arabic but more specifically refers in Islam to a head of state or leader of the Muslims. Montalvo was surely familiar with these words. Portions of Spain were ruled by the Moors, who were Muslim, from 757 to 1492. And it fits the story's narrative. Montalvo's novel was a fanciful rehash of the struggle between Christians and Muslims during the crusades.

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The Islamic origin of the name illustrates an example of how our lives are affected by many different cultural influences, even if we are not explicitly aware of them. In addition to coffee, algebra, hospitals, and toothbrushes, the name of our state finds its origin in the Muslim world. Just like our present day state, the name "California" is a confluence of multiple cultural influences.

Queen Calafia's name is likely a derivative of the Arabic word 'Khalif' or 'Khalifa' .
So the name "California" traces its origin to a centuries old story about an island, full of gold, run by black women who fed men to their pet griffins. Like other Amazonian legends, the island of California was a place filled with strong, self-sufficient women who solicited male attention completely on their own terms. This story resonates in California, which has a long history of gender roles being reconstructed. And it is fitting that this state, which has served as a frontier for issues of race, gender and religion, gets its name from a mythical story where race, gender and religion collide. Finally, the story of an island full of gold foreshadowed the Gold Rush, which propelled the idea of the California dream around the world.

This state, which has spawned so many of its own myths, has its origin in myth. The Spanish explorers were looking for an "island dream" when they gave California its name. And hundreds of years later, people still come to California searching for their own piece of the California dream.

80% of women that come from Central America through Mexico get raped.

80%
8 out of 10.
80 out of 100
800 out of 1000
8000 out of 10,000.

That's insane.

So yeah, there are a lot of rapists there.

In the 1800s, the Irish were a favorite target, and newspaper want ads commonly included the phrase “No Irish need apply.” Later in the 19th century, anti-immigration sentiment was codified in federal laws that singled out Asians. Subsequent federal laws targeted Italians and southern Europeans.

Total number of immigrants granted permanent U.S. residency, 1840-2015. Sources: Pew Research Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Scholars have identified three waves of immigration: the first era, the second era and the current era. As the U.S. once again debates who should be let into the country, perhaps it’s time to review major immigration laws passed from 1870 to the present day. Some tried to bring order to the immigration process. Others aimed to keep out those perceived as un-American.

FIRST ERA

The ‘free white persons’ and Asian ‘coolies’

Poor and unskilled immigrants from Northern Europe and Asia poured into the United States in the mid-1800s. Most of the European immigrants were German and Irish, and under the law they were considered “free white persons” able to achieve citizenship.

Germany 4.2 million
Ireland 3.2
United Kingdom 2.5
Canada and British North America 1
Norway-Sweden 883,000

Citizenship wasn’t an option for the growing numbers of Chinese and Asian immigrants settling on the West Coast. A cheap source of labor for mines, farms and railways, the Chinese were called “coolies.” The word originally meant “unskilled laborer,” but became a slur hurled at workers who labored for low wages or came to the U.S. as indentured laborers. Chinese women were largely assumed to be prostitutes.

In Los Angeles, the backlash against Asians culminated in 1871 with the Chinese Massacre. A mob of more than 500 white men killed at least 18 Chinese men and boys near downtown. No one was ever convicted of the killings.
The growing animus against Asians across the country led to discriminatory laws that would remain on the books for decades.

Major immigration laws
Naturalization Act

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Allowed African immigrants and African descendants to become U.S. citizens. Other nonwhite persons remained unable to obtain citizenship.
“[The Chinese] strengthened our nation’s infrastructure, only to be prosecuted when their labor was seen as competition and when the dirtiest work was done" — Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose), during debate in 2012 before the passage of House Resolution 683 expressing regret for the treatment of Chinese migrants

SECOND ERA
Southern Europeans not welcome

During the next wave of immigration, from the late 1800s to the 1920s, immigration laws continued to target Asians, but also tried to discourage immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Roger Waldinger, a UCLA distinguished professor of sociology, said the laws passed during this era "set a low limit on total immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere and virtually stopped migration from Asia."

Italy 4.3 million
Austria-Hungary 3.7

Russia and Poland 3
Canada and British North America 1.7
United Kingdom 1.5

The poor, the sick and those espousing certain political beliefs were barred from entry into the U.S. under other new laws. Laws discouraging immigration from Southern Europe — mainly from Italy — reflected widespread anti-Catholic sentiment. Italians were frequent targets of abuse and one of the most infamous mass lynchings in U.S. history occurred in New Orleans, where 11 Italians were attacked and killed by a mob in 1891.

After World War I, immigration decreased dramatically with the passage of more restrictive legislation. Permanent residency status grants went from 1.2 million in 1914 to a little more than 110,000 in 1918.

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This is some kind of weak attempt to make it out like 3rd world somalians are just like the poor Irish and Italians that came here in the late 19th century.

Sorry but they're not. Not even close. If we had millions of Somalians and Mexicans pour into this country instead of Europeans, do you really think the USA would look like it does now?

JHC!! Now who is talking about Somalians. How did you make that mental leep. No one is taking about Somalians. Only you.

I know the LAtimes. That's what they're doing. Trying to make it seem like everyone hated the European immigrants of the past like we do the black and brown immigrants of today.

The big difference is when they came 'back in the day' they were coming to actually WORK. They were coming because they loved America and wanted freedom. The ones coming here today are coming to dip their fat snouts in the trough. And when they get here they wave their own flags of origin and kick and cry about America. Just look at that pile of human shit Ilhan Omar. All that bitch does is complain and hate America. Fuck them. They need to cease any immigration from these 3rd world fuck holes.

Have you ever seen a Somali IRL? How do they affect your life personally on a daily basis?

Current estimates of the number of Somali immigrants living in the United States vary widely, ranging from 35,760 to 150,000 persons. 2010 American Community Survey data indicates that there are approximately 85,700 people with Somali ancestry in the US

They don't affect my life and i'd like to keep it that way. But that wasn't my point. My response was more about the agenda they are trying to push.

crockett you are one dumb motherfucker.

The stupidity hits all new lows every consecutive hour that you post here.

The right wing of the US wouldn't care very much if it was actual citizens of Spain coming across that border. But when they are a genetic mix of Spanish and what is essentially central american savagery, the result is the US taking on some of the dumbest people on earth.

You can't understand their mental shortcomings until you've dealt with it first hand.