There is a saying that is being repeated over and over in California, and is making its way over to Texas. “California is full of Mexicans back when it was Mexico. They didn’t cross the border, the border
crossed them.” People are finding
this statement funny and repeating it but when you repeat it have you really
thought this through? Let’s break this
down shall we?
First off, I was born in the beautiful state of California, I lived there a total of ten years, bouncing
back and forth between Texas and California, until I was
eighteen. Texas
is my home but California
is my birth place. I was fortunate
enough to study both state history’s in school and I’m proud to have done so.
Now when the “Border crossed them,” it was called a
Revolution. Both California
and Texas
fought for Independence from Mexico. What does that mean? It means they no longer wanted to be a part
of Mexico.
Both became their own Republic. They no longer called themselves Mexican
because they did not consider themselves to be a citizen of Mexico, but instead called
themselves Californians or Texans.
They were proud to be their
own people, their own nation. They
fought and died for that freedom to be separate
from Mexico.
Do you see a pattern here yet?
When the United States
was spreading west bound they asked these Independent Countries, make no
mistake they were their own country once they
left Mexico, to join the Union. So they now
became citizens of the United
States, again, no longer calling themselves Mexicans but the more common term of Americans.
With all this said, let’s look at what California
and Texas is
full of, um, not Mexicans, because let’s get this straight people, being a
Mexican is a nationality not an
ethnicity, they are full of AMERICANS!
That’s right they were born here as Americans not Mexicans. So when you
see the truth this statement falls apart.
Please don’t repeat a false statement, it doesn’t look good
for anyone.
