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Texas Heritage Minute
Jun. 26th, 2019 11:03 pmAll of the "build a wall" "take our country back" anti-immigrant anti-latino rhetoric is jarring for the obvious reasons (I'm a human being with compassion for other human beings), but it's also strange because... I grew up in Texas? Texas culture from at least 1980 to 2010 (I haven't lived there the last 8 years) emphasized three key elements:
1. Texas is allowed to be as Mexican as it wants and anybody who tries to stop us can die.
2. The Cowboys are America's team.
3. Both Mexico and the USA can fuck off.
This sounds like a joke, but in all sincerity if you'd told me Texas was going to build a wall to keep people out, I would have bet on it being a wall between Texas and Oklahoma. (We do not have a good reason for animosity toward Oklahoma and tend to hang around with people from Oklahoma if we run into them outside of Texas. Within the bounds of Texas, one is required to despise Oklahoma. It's probably a college sports rivalry ultimately, but permeates to people who don't care about college sports.)
It's still true that I don't see much pro-wall agitation coming from Texans (it's Arizonans in front), but, man, I did not think I would live a to see a day where the federal government came in to occupy parts of Texas and were not immediately driven out. There was a full-on freak out when the military ran a temporary exercise (Jade Helm) and now we're letting them put out razor wire and set up tent cities, end date undetermined. That's not to mention border checks; I'm amazed folks are willing to show ID to anyone who isn't a Texas Ranger without throwing a fit.
I'm not saying I agree with the anti-federal seperatist sentiment I grew up around, but this lack of an uprising is quite a head twist. As for "I want to preserve my culture" - my culture is that Mexico is the Texas minor league team. That has its own stupidity, but it's a different stupidity than "keep the heartland white."
1. Texas is allowed to be as Mexican as it wants and anybody who tries to stop us can die.
2. The Cowboys are America's team.
3. Both Mexico and the USA can fuck off.
This sounds like a joke, but in all sincerity if you'd told me Texas was going to build a wall to keep people out, I would have bet on it being a wall between Texas and Oklahoma. (We do not have a good reason for animosity toward Oklahoma and tend to hang around with people from Oklahoma if we run into them outside of Texas. Within the bounds of Texas, one is required to despise Oklahoma. It's probably a college sports rivalry ultimately, but permeates to people who don't care about college sports.)
It's still true that I don't see much pro-wall agitation coming from Texans (it's Arizonans in front), but, man, I did not think I would live a to see a day where the federal government came in to occupy parts of Texas and were not immediately driven out. There was a full-on freak out when the military ran a temporary exercise (Jade Helm) and now we're letting them put out razor wire and set up tent cities, end date undetermined. That's not to mention border checks; I'm amazed folks are willing to show ID to anyone who isn't a Texas Ranger without throwing a fit.
I'm not saying I agree with the anti-federal seperatist sentiment I grew up around, but this lack of an uprising is quite a head twist. As for "I want to preserve my culture" - my culture is that Mexico is the Texas minor league team. That has its own stupidity, but it's a different stupidity than "keep the heartland white."
