Harris Slams Hispanics in Hispanic Heritage Month
by Jeffrey Lord Harris Slams Hispanics in Hispanic Heritage Month
Accuses them of “perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease.”
by Jeffrey Lord
October 13, 2021, 10:07 PM
Well, this is an interesting way to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month.
In a speech to the National Congress of American Indians focused on Columbus, Harris appears to forget that the moving force — the money — for the Italian Columbus’s voyage came from the Spanish Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. In historical fact, the Columbus voyage was the opening round of a serious and major Spanish colonization of the New World. Yet in a poor attempt at white washing, Harris uses the phrase “European explorers” — pretending that they were not Spanish. In fact, Columbus was far from alone in the Spanish arrivals in the New World of North, Central, and South America.
Wikipedia has several detailed accounts of all this. Saying this of the Spanish colonization project that followed Columbus:
The Spanish colonization of the Americas began under the Crown of Castile and was spearheaded by the Spanish conquistadors. The Americas were invaded and incorporated into the Spanish Empire, with the exception of Brazil, British America, and some small regions of South America and the Caribbean. The crown created civil and religious structures to administer the vast territory. The main motivations for colonial expansion were profit through resource extraction[1] and the spread of Catholicism through indigenous conversions.
Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbusin the Caribbean and gaining control over more territory for over three centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America. It is estimated that during the colonial period (1492–1832), a total of 1.86 million Spaniards settled in the Americas, and a further 3.5 million immigrated during the post-colonial era (1850–1950); the estimate is 250,000 in the 16th century and most during the 18th century, as immigration was encouraged by the new Bourbon dynasty.[2]
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https://spectator.org/harris-slams-hispanics-in-hispanic-heritage-month/more
https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/14/biden-administration-america-poverty-inflation-price-surges-wages/
