B.E. writes:

Well, well, well, is it that time of year already? Here we are in the middle of “Hispanic Heritage Month,” so it’s time to celebrate America’s Hispanic heritage!

We have to go back to the beginning, of course, and remember the Hispanic voyagers on the Mayflower, of whom there were … oh. Zero.

Well, then, let’s commemorate those brave Hispanics who fought, and sometimes died, for the fledgling United States, good men like … oh, wait. There weren’t any Hispanic heroes of the Revolution, no Hispanic Founding Fathers.

Well, a quick zip forward to the War of 1812 reveals … no Hispanics there, either. How about the brave Hispanic volunteers of the Civil War? No? World War I? Still no? World War II? Well, perhaps three percent of the American fighting forces of that conflict were Latino. Maybe we can find the mark of Hispanic achievement in other areas. Quick: name all the famous American Hispanics/Latinos that you can. This is my list.

Speedy Gonzales
The Frito Bandito
Juan Jimenez
Dave Concepcion
Cesar Chavez
Ricardo Montalban
Jennifer Lopez

Off the top of my head, I couldn’t even come up with ten, and of the few I did name, three are fictional characters. Cesar Chavez, claimed by both Hispanics and liberals as a “hero,” started out opposed to illegal immigration, but ended up supporting the disastrous 1986 amnesty. The other actual people I could come up with are an athlete (and why I remember him, I don’t know), an actor, and a singer/actress — all performers. I am certain I missed many famous people, people whose names would have come to me if I thought about it longer, but where are the leaders, the artists, the scientists, the philosophers, and the others contributing to the advancement of our society? What “heritage” are we supposed to be celebrating― contributions to pop culture?

Of course, I know that Hispanic Heritage Month has nothing to do with the alleged importance of Hispanics to the forming, building, and sustaining of America. Apart from the Spanish settlements, which did not become American until well after the founding, they were not here. They had no role in our history except as rivals (Florida, California) or enemies (Mexico). The purpose of the “celebration” is to honor the Other, and, in so doing, further delegitimize the actual historic people of America and their descendants: whites. The purpose is to further the Hispanicization, and thus the Balkanization, of America.

It’s hard to boycott a non-event such as this, but at the very least, I can refuse to participate in any observation related to it ― for now. How much longer will I enjoy that freedom?

— Comments —

Eric writes:

He forgot Cheech ‘n’ Chong. That makes nine by my count.

And Herve Villechaize makes ten.

Mrs. C. writes:

I am not in favor of another special month for any subset of Americans but…

To add to the list:

Christopher Columbus (Italian but funded by Spain)
Ponce de Leon, Spanish explorer of the Americas
Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court justice
Anthony Quinn, actor
Joseph M. Acaba, Astronaut
Horatio Rivero, a Navy admiral during the American Civil War
Senator Marco Rubio, Republican
Oscar de la Hoya, gold medal Olympian in boxing (for the US)
Octaviano Larrazolo, fourth governor of New Mexico and U.S. Senator
Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil War
Colonel Carlos de la Mesa, of the Union Army. His great-grandson was a major general and later commander of the 104th infantry in World War II.
My father, Jose Gonzalez, a Vietnam veteran, was a Green Beret who earned two Purple Hearts and a bronze star.
My grandfather, Octavio Rivera, was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean Conflict

There are a lot more meaningful Hispanic contributors I could mention, other than the many actors and sports figures, but your readers can do their own homework before spouting more nonsense.

Laura writes:

Current politicians are not part of our “heritage,” and I’m afraid Christopher Columbus does not count. You are correct that Hispanics have fought in small numbers in the various wars of the past and sometimes distinguished themselves.

Mrs. C. adds:

I couldn’t resist adding a few more:

Luis Walter Alvarez, Nobel prize winning physicist who developed radio ground control for airplanes

Mario Molina, Nobel prize winning chemist who discovered the damage chlorofluorocarbons do to the ozone layer leading to their banning in most developed countries.

Severo Ochoa, Nobel prize winning biochemist who with Arthur Koernberg synthesized RNA, the part of our genes which carries heredity qualities

Carlos Noriega, Marine pilot, lieutenant colonel, and astronaut who help assemble the international space station

Now the serious contributors:

Martin Sheen and sons
Rachel Welch
Vanna White

And because I’m a New Englander: Big Papi David Ortiz, Pedro Martinez, and Manny Ramirez, who all helped win the World Series in 2004.

Pete F. writes:

Proclaiming a given month special for this-or-that reason is emblematic of the vacuity and banality of everyday government.  Phrased less-delicately, only the government would be stupid enough to dream up an idea like this.

“Hispanic Heritage Month,” like its counterpart for blacks, “Black History Month,” looks innocuous-enough at first glance, but there is actually a deeper purpose to these events – one well-known to the cultural left. They are subtle forms of propaganda designed to keep racial/ethnic grievances and minority issues before the public and fresh in the minds of voters. Remember Al Gore’s Freudian slip not so many years ago – wherein he inverted the national motto from E Pluribus Unum/”From Many, One” – the correct form – to  “From One, Many”? The left does not believe in the traditional idea of America as a melting pot, where people of diverse backgrounds shed their former identities and become authentically American. Rather, the leftist ideal is the salad bowel model, where each ingredient is discrete and there is no little or no blending or assimilation.

The left wants immigrants to come to America all right; it just doesn’t want them to become traditional Americans once they get here.

One of the most-powerful engines driving cultural leftism is the ever-simmering sense of resentment, grievance, and dissatisfaction percolating among different progressive/liberal constituencies. Minority groups whose members come to America and then assimilate successfully, building productive lives for themselves and living the American Dream – are far-too-contented for the purposes of the political class. Successful, contented people have little need of an intrusive government. Therefore, the powers-that-be generally have a vested interest in keeping various racial/ethnic groups divided, politically-fragmented, and unhappy.

Programs like “Hispanic Heritage Month” or “Black History Month” are designed to buttress the walls dividing different racial, ethnic and cultural groups from one another. Thus isolated in their own ghettos, the affected parties can be more-easily manipulated to suit the needs of their puppeteers. Black America provides a case in point.

It is worth noting that much of what passes for entertainment these days is, in a sense, geared towards the same end – keeping resentments bubbling and tearing open old racial wounds that show signs of healing.

The recent Quentin Tarrantino film, “Django Unchained,” starring Jamie Foxx, is typical of the genre. The young, usually being naïve and ignorant of history, are vulnerable to being propagandized by leftist Hollywood misrepresentations of the past. Films like “Django Unchained” can and do win converts to the leftist cause, and are far-more-successful in stoking resentments than is generally realized. Keep those recruits and converts coming! There is probably no organized conspiracy to indoctrinate our youth in this manner; Hollywood and its leftists are probably acting in concert due to groupthink – but the effect is much the same as a conspiracy.

Skeptics might counter that critics are reading too much into the meaning of such events as ‘Hispanic Heritage Month,” and that suspicions of an ideological agenda and subtext to events like ‘Black History Month” are nothing more than paranoia. That contention is easily tested. If these events are really about nothing more than innocent consciousness-raising and celebration of different racial/ethnic groups and their accomplishments, then why is there no “European Heritage Month” or “Caucasian History Month”? I think we all know the answer to that question.

Laura writes:

The goal of liberalism is not the “salad bowl.” The goal is a nonwhite utopia.

Anna writes:

I am sorry. I am not a fan of liberalism but there are many Hispanics in our country whom we can celebrate. Indeed at least many of them were Catholic. How about the fact also that in certain parts of our fair nation they were actually there first.

Take California for example. The missions were a beautiful 100 percent Hispanic endeavor headed by Junipero Serra. Last time I checked none of our lovely white founding fathers were busy building Catholic Churches and farms for the Indians. Oh no that’s right they were savages and heathens to be killed. There were certainly Hispanics who mistreated the Indians but there are at least redeeming examples of the Catholic Church of Spain reaching out to the Indians.

I have no problem celebrating Hispanics because at least they come from a country whose faith I espouse and whose culture I can relate too.

Indeed I find it infinitely more difficult to relate to our founding fathers: wealthy slave owning Protestants basking in age of reason ideology or Junipero Serra walking on his crippled leg up the California coast to teach Indians about Christ? You choose.

Good grief, let’s not waste time picking battles about nothing. If its Hispanic heritage month at least I can proudly display my Virgin of Guadalupe Banner wherever I please and blame others for being insensitive to Hispanic Heritage month if they say anything!

Viva Christ Rei!!!!!

 Laura writes:

That’s true, the Spanish missionaries made magnificent contributions to our heritage. I don’t think, however, they are  what the government has in mind with Hispanic Heritage Month, particularly in our schools. If you can find a single public school celebrating the accomplishments of Junipero Serra, let me know. I am sure the early Catholic missionaries and martyrs would not have approved of much that goes into official Hispanic pride in America, including law-breaking by immigrants and the racial grievance industry.

And, remember, England was once a great Catholic nation too.

Hispanics have of course made many contributions to our country, regardless of their fame or fortune. It’s the political project that Hispanic Heritage Month represents that is the problem.

Laura adds:

Unlike Anna, I do not celebrate the Hispanicization of America, and all the racial animosity against white Europeans it entails, with the mythical idea that Latin America represents a superior, Catholic civilization and thus will exalt America. That’s baloney.

Joe A. writes:

Many of the commenters seem to confuse “Hispanic” with “Spanish.” The very name “Hispanic” is an invention of the Nixon administration to describe non-American speakers of a Spanish dialect common in so-called but misnamed Latin America.

“Hispania” is an island discovered and named by Columbus to honor the Spanish monarchy that underwrote his expedition.

Relatively little Spanish blood actually flows through the veins of the Hispanics whose people are a rococo mixture of Amerind and Negro slaves.

Scott A. writes:

Laura writes:

The Conquistadors civilized the Aztecs, who practiced ritual human sacrifice. Their cruelties are greatly exaggerated, as are the cruelties of slave-owning Protestant Americans.

Henry A. writes:

You said “The Conquistadors civilized the Aztecs, who practiced ritual human sacrifice. Their cruelties are greatly exaggerated, as are the cruelties of slave-owning Protestant Americans”

The Aztecs did not just practice “ritual human sacrifice”. They practice ritual human mass sacrifice.

They were a satanic civilization and as such they had to go. The Lord had their days numbered.

Now what about the present-day U.S.A., with abortion, MTV, etc, etc?

B.E. writes:

Pete F. gets it; those who listed famous Hispanics do not. Hispanic Heritage Month is not about promoting Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, or whatever you want to call them. This is about putting “the man”―that is, the *white* man―down. It is about destroying the historic America and sidelining the descendants of the people who made it.

Anna oversimplifies the Pilgrims’ response to the savages around them. While it was possible for colonists and Indians to live in peace, there were also countless cases of unprovoked slaughter of whites by Indians. A skirmish between two sometimes ended in the murder of every man, woman, and child in a white settlement.

The fundamental issue here, of course, is that two peoples cannot share the same space. By celebrating non-whites and importing more, the perfidious elites are guaranteeing racial conflict. We see it already in what Lawrence Auster called the low-level black intifada against whites, as well as the “ethnic cleansing” of blacks by Hispanic gangs, and also the never-ending onslaught of Islamic terrorism in our own country.

Will the millions upon millions of Mexicans and other foreign invaders from south of our border side with us, or against us, in our fight for survival? Will they be our allies when we are beaten, raped, and murdered? We already know the answer. Hispanic Heritage Month does not incite people to violence, but it does promote a foreign, often hostile, group over those who have been called “heritage Americans”―people of European stock whose loyalty is to the only country they can call their own: America.

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