Never during my 12 years of public school did I hear one mention of this piece of our sinister history. Nor the attack on black Wall Street until I went to college. And we know the saying- if we don't know our history, we are doomed to repeat it.

@pacificswell

4 жыл бұрын

Two years after this post, I am barely learning about this too, and that’s because of college courses. What a brutal time and present time as well.

@Chelseapimentel

4 жыл бұрын

I’m a freshmen in college and I’m learning about this in college. I’m frustrated that I did not learn this in Highschool it would of been so important to me and useful to learn about my Culture and race. Also I didn’t know about the attack on Black Wall Street. Yes I agree we need to teach the and educate ourselves the history if not the cycle will repeat itself. Viva Mexico!!! I’m proud to be Mexican America 🇲🇽!

@friendlyfriday3445

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chelseapimentel I think it just depends on the history teacher you learn it from. I live in California and I was taught this in sophomore year. The teacher explained that America had this history of purposefully tempting Mexicans with us citizenship if they helped during times of Great War, world war 1 and 2, and when all was done they sort of backstabbed them. The Three reasons why I believe some teachers, in high school, don’t talk about these things is because ether 1. They don’t really want to talk about America’s ugly past and want to keep Americas image somewhat clean 2. They don’t really care and are just teach the bare minimum or 3. They forgot.

@darlene9894

3 жыл бұрын

i'm a freshmen in highschool and my teacher's teaching us this right now !

@darlene9894

3 жыл бұрын

also proud to be mexican american :D

It's important to know our history and tragic mistakes. I had never learned this before. Thank you for sharing this piece of history.

American public schools sweep these things under the rug.

I think this video has shown me more history about Latinos in the U.S. than all of my years in K-12 education in public schools where I really learned NOTHING about Latino History. Thank you for this video.

The things they don't teach in school. I feel like we covered so much history about the American Revolution, Civil War, WWII, a little bit of Vietnam, and a few things here and there. But this was never mentioned during my 12 years of education. It took a Chicano Literature class on my last semester of my BA degree for me to learn about this! Im so angry at not only what took place but at the fact that it took me so long to learn about it. I read the book in about 1 week and did a presentation on it for my class. Im happy to know that 25 students in that class now know about it and hopefully they'll tell others.

Democracy Now, thank you so much for the work you do.

FYI-It’s not deportation when the people being kicked out their homes were already here before the Anglos arrived.

@arteks2001

2 жыл бұрын

It’s ethnic cleansing.

I wonder natives never went on air and said they want white people out. I think we should let the natives decide who stays and who leaves.

@bijoubijoux5185

5 жыл бұрын

oh ya, since you're a racist and you think all red people are the same and didn't massacre each previous indian group that owned the land LOL. As is the case with literally every country on Earth. So any random indian tribe is entitled to any patch of land huh? What if that tribe never even lived in that microregion of the continent? Not to mention how many of another indian nation (out of hundreds of indian nations) did that indian group scalp and possibly genocide to momentarily claim the one they lived in? WHICH indian group are u talking about? Or are red people just red people? Do you view Japanese killing millions of Chinese as just yellow people killing each other, nothing more? And which blood-soaked microregion of the continent did that tribe occupy? And I'm sure you would much prefer that every nation on the whole continent had lived a wild, starvation, live until 22 years old type of life, including yourself? And that that's the country that should have existed instead of America? And the type of shithole that you wish would replace America now? LOL get a life. Why do u think those indian nations disappeared so fast? It's because their people were RUNNING to ditch their difficult lives and live in America (the jurisdiction, roads, and technology on which americans created their own way of life), marrying white women, and mixing with whites so fast that their genes dwindled down to about 2 percent in the Americans even that contain their genes at all (myself included), the vast majority of their nations disappearing for good.

@beefy74

4 жыл бұрын

@@bijoubijoux5185 I hope you aren't as ignorant as you were when you decided to write this piece of mindless garbage

@metalpunk1234

Жыл бұрын

That would have been a good one, besides, they were the first inhabitant to have lived here longer than we have.

This is so shameful.

My great grandparents were “deported” along with my grandma and siblings during this evil program in 1931. They were all legally here.

Sick society

Next time someone says go back to your country show them this we belong in this land more than anyone does don’t let them call you foreign in your own land

@noskpain2792

Жыл бұрын

Apples to oranges. The peoples deported were Americans not Mexicans.

@nycbankers1427

Жыл бұрын

@@noskpain2792 😴😴😴

@Mexicano1768

9 ай бұрын

@@noskpain2792they were both, Mexicans and Chicanos.

@sophinal

Ай бұрын

Not more than the black people who was here before everyone

@nycbankers1427

Ай бұрын

@@sophinal there was never black people in the americas we natives are the real Americans everyone else is a foreigner

Just another broken promise. Guadalupe hidalgo anyone??

so they went to the man's workplace and took him right out of the field, (so he was not on welfare or whatever it was called then). Then even the KIDS went to jail? Thats awful.

I grew up in Southern California, and I never saw or heard any of this in public school. Thank you for posting this!

thank you for sharing these experiences. it will help us work harder to create laws to protect the more vulnerable of us. best regards.

I would sue America for doing this to me and my Family.

@bijoubijoux5185

5 жыл бұрын

we would sue you for going into someone else's country taking their welfare money and then still pounding the table for own race at the expense of another race's interests meanwhile you could be acting in everyone's interest.

@Mr.Neighborhoods

5 жыл бұрын

bijou bijoux $5 dollars a day was not enough for economic stability for most Mexicans. Their labor made it possible for businessmen to get wealthy fast because of the low wages given to them. They helped several businessmen make millions, which the government taxes, I think they deserve that welfare.

@friendlyfriday3445

3 жыл бұрын

@@bijoubijoux5185 you sure do talk about America as if one race defines Americans. Being an American isn’t about race but rather ideology. America is a melting pot full of different races that contribute and make America stronger as a whole. Do all contribute to this, no. That’s the reality but just because a small percentage make problems doesn’t mean that the majority doesn’t help solve them.

@jannely9217

Жыл бұрын

​@bijou bijoux tell that to your filthy nasty ancestors. This land was taken from the Natives. Go read a book you racist fuck

@MiguelGarcia999

Жыл бұрын

am not Northern American, am Hispanic. Plz ask before you hate on the wrong people youz.....

"land of the free"? uh ? ... does an American patriot's self-reflection ever get beyond Narcissism ?

@PapaMagnum

7 жыл бұрын

Apparently not. The white nationalists in this thread didn't even read the fucking title. "ILLEGAL IS NOT A RACE!!" This, despite ***right in the title*** it says that citizens were deported to Mexico. We all know where these people's heads are at.

@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl

7 жыл бұрын

It raises the question of what this patriotism is based TODAY. I believe that it is a theater, rather instilled and stubbornly defended. No one can really be proud of some crimes that occurred under US leadership. (Vietnam, Iran Contra, Central America, Afghanistan, Iraq .......)

@Bastogne1944

7 жыл бұрын

+PapaMagnum "The INS website is not a good source". Too bad this website is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) which is relating to a report done by the INS. So what is a reliable source to you? Gawker? NYTimes? BuzzFeed? WasPos? FACT CHECK: "Hoover did not use immigration policy to "create jobs" and never "ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens." During his four-year presidency, roughly 121,000 persons were officially deported or induced to leave through threat of deportation, according to our analysis of official statistics". Nobody will believe me as long you race baiters keep shifting the narrative to suit your interests. We have had consensus here in the U.S since the 1800's so yes I do expect some recorded form of documentation taking place in 1930's. I do not care about your stance because people are entitled to their own opinion and not fact.

@PapaMagnum

7 жыл бұрын

Way to completely miss my point entirely. Not that it matters because you seem to have a romanticized view of everything and judging by your post history you didn't bother to read the title of the video.

@Bastogne1944

7 жыл бұрын

+PapaMagnum Your tone of writing shifted once I brought out the facts. I have been on this url page for hours and you are going to tell me that I have not even watched the video nor read the title? Now that is disingenuous and deceitful. I forgot to add the source to the last fact I stated: www.factcheck.org/2010/07/hoover-truman-ike-mass-deporters/ "the INS website is not a good source, as they are extremely likely to paint a rosy picture of their own past and bury their uglier deeds." So the INS website which is really and INS report published by the USCIS, is now fake news because you have deemed them to be negative? That is exactly the same rhetoric Trump uses against the MSM. Unless you can back up your claim? Until then, resistance is futile and you are giving yourself no leg to stand on.

Many Mexican-Americans were forced to "repatriate" to a country in which they never lived. They were 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation Americans - thus they were U.S. citizens, spoke perfect English and some were land owners. Hispanic families were forced at the end of a barrel to board busses, ships and trains. To this day, many have not been made whole by our government. An eye opening series was published and should be read because it could have been my family or yours. It's written by a woman and she elegantly retells her family's story. www.notesfromaztlan.com/2014/01/10/we-didnt-cross-the-border-the-border-crossed-us/

@buzzydj

Жыл бұрын

i knew quite a few mexican grandfolks who didn't speak a lick of spanish as a result of this Act. They told me their parents at the time didn't dare teach them spanish out of fears of being deported by the INS even though it didn't really matter to the INS.

@Ivan-tm9pd

7 ай бұрын

​@buzzydj that makes sense so many Mexican I meet always said they don't speak Spanish.

Really happened? OMG, can't imagine what went through them and family.

OMG!! How horrible!! This makes me very emotional as a Mexican I never knew this we were never taught about this in History books. Racism, Xenophobia, discrimination and the stealing of Mexican lands is a tragedy that has happened to Mexicans due to American culture/consciousness/ Ideology.

Why do they not ask about the economic impact on agriculture and other businesses? There must have been devastating effects.

Trump's the bad "dude" that we need to get out.

@MrGreenstar2012

7 жыл бұрын

dragon8me2 try to go to Mexico illegally you'll do two years and then be deported period make Mexico great again MMGA

@avamiller1245

7 жыл бұрын

Jan Reynolds poor you. You think you own this country.

@pathacker4963

7 жыл бұрын

dragon8me2 apparently he's not the only "bad dude".

@randomamerican471

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the muslims in Sweden rioted the other day because the police arrested a drug dealer. And the person that was second most likely to win the election absorbed $400 million dollars in return for favorable policy changes. And gave up 20% of our Uranium to Russia. The Democratic Party is in a death spiral. And they have no idea how to pull their heads out.

@lumiesoucek3478

7 жыл бұрын

P CC Even in United States doesn't add up to 1%.

They also did it again in the 50's on something they called operation wet back. It was heartbreaking to see Mexican Americans in México looking for their mothers and fathers, grandparents many of who were picked off street and never seen again.

Disappointing to see that Roosevelt who is one of my heros had at least toes of clay.

@pinkiesue849

5 жыл бұрын

bix-x: Roosevelt got a lot of things right, but not this one. He helped see this country thru years of hard times, but this one thing he did not do right.

@friendlyfriday3445

3 жыл бұрын

@@pinkiesue849 the reality is that no president is perfect. Each have their problems and some try to over come them. It was common back then to see many people who believed that the Caucasian race was superior to the rest. Things have changed and we should move forward to a brighter future we’re Americans can stop focusing on race. Being an American doesn’t depend on a race rather on ideology.

How can one be deported from the country they're a citizen of?

@daWatcher

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Fabela easy, ignore the rule of law and the Constitution, don’t give the deportees due process and just deport them quickly. It’s sick that this horrible chapter of our history is not more widely known.

@drah9955

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Fabela...It was a chicken shit America at that time...America great, sometimes, some Americans A Holes

@miamijefe7793

10 ай бұрын

@@daWatcher There are more caucasians in prison than anyone else, followed by blacks, then hispanics

Remember that Mexican have high Native American ancestry :0 This is why they get discriminated..

@bijoubijoux5185

5 жыл бұрын

and the native americans didn't "discriminate" each other as they genocided other tribes for their land? Lol. By the way in the Dominican Republic there is still slavery. Are you embarrassed that latinos are still slaveholders in 2018?

@conesobruh9165

3 жыл бұрын

@@bijoubijoux5185 the ignorance you spew is ridiculous trying to make excuses for the ignorance Europeans brought just like all the Sickness and shity sidewalks you brought.

@skywind8030

3 жыл бұрын

I dont think so.

@ellielopez1615

2 жыл бұрын

@@conesobruh9165 it doesn’t make it any better but like there’s a saying in Spanish, “todos tienen cola que le pisen.”

@emmanuelnochebuena4453

23 күн бұрын

​@@bijoubijoux5185and the white people didn't discriminate themselves right, what about the Roma people, Jewish people, Armenian people, Sicilian Italian....

As a 40 yr old white American man I want to know why I was never taught this or ran across something about it, I mean I know why, they tried keeping it on the DL, “Down Low” instead of teaching us are history so we don’t repeat it and make the same mistakes as our ancestors!

Listen at 8:18.

The haters can't stand rational discussion. Make America Hate Again.

@ottoelelhuitzilihuitl3088

7 жыл бұрын

Americans hate because are manipulated and brainwashed by radical hatemongers

@bijoubijoux5185

5 жыл бұрын

"Hate". You sound like a hippie.

They should teach this in high school also should teach about that historic tree that you guys have in Texas that was used for "mexicans only" and made a parade of it. And didn't stop lynching mexicans until 1970s just how u.s citizens of mexican decent also kept being deported till 1960s

Wait a minute. Didn't this all start way back when??

United States promised of Liberty and Justice, my head was got slammed by a solid utility cart and later two gallons of milk in a box dropped right down the middle of my head. No medical attention offered both injuries. I demanded to take me the specialist and some test. All my request was denied by Walmart and the South Carolina Workers Compensation. Then Walmart fired me 9 months after the last injury. Where is liberty and Justice in my case. Tell me please tell me.

@pinkiesue849

5 жыл бұрын

lumie: get a BRAVE lawyer.

Thanks Democracy Now!☺

This was allowed by a democratic president. Now tell me again how the hell does any democrat give a crap about us?!?!

@libreverdaderamente4450

3 ай бұрын

Was it?

@gime1945

3 күн бұрын

You overlooked the party shift in the 60s-80s, where Democrats and Republicans shifted ideologies.

So many white nationalists here who so obviously didn't read the title of the video.

@thisorthat411

2 жыл бұрын

So many Democrats here don't know their President Franklin delanor Roosevelt who signed in this policy. The great deal was the expulsion of Hispanic citizens

@PapaMagnum

2 жыл бұрын

@@thisorthat411 pretty sure it started in 1929 and peaked in 1931 then ended under FDR, which is easy to find out under a cursory Google search But good thing I'm not a Democrat anyway because parties are for idiots

@thisorthat411

2 жыл бұрын

@@PapaMagnum simple Google search we'll tell it ended in 1939. Followed by Japanese internment in a couple years. I don't believe it is stupid to group together with people that have similar ideas of how to run the country. I think that would be wise. Now I am a registered independent. I have voted Republican probably 99% of my life but I am loyal to no one but my family and Friends. If someone breaks into my house I don't ask what political party they are part of. It does blow my mind that the Democrat Party the party of slavery KKK Jim Crow Trail of Tears Japanese internment and probably a ton of other atrocities has been revamped. How does the party of cancel culture explain this? They want you in the police because it started as slave catching but it can't change. Nothing can be redeemed once it has been tainted yet the Democrat Party stands as a reminder of their hypocrisy. What do you think

@PapaMagnum

2 жыл бұрын

@@thisorthat411 I think you're a dumbass who's trying to make this a party issue rather than a white supremacist issue

@PapaMagnum

2 жыл бұрын

@@thisorthat411 also, it ended in 1936

Wow, I never knew. So much of this country was part of Mexico before there was a USA & was named Mexico for us, the Mexica/Meche/Moche ppl **Moche/Moses or Ppl of Moses** & before it was named that, All the continents of The Americas belonged to all indigenous ppls who so many forget that includes the Mexican, South American & “black” American descendants 💯 All of us with the known native Americans & Canadian indigenous were ALL ONE FAMILY, ONE PPL WHO LIVED ALL OVER OUR LANDS, TURTLE ISLAND & MOVED ANYWHERE ON IT AS THERE WAS NO BORDER. ONLY tribal territories & we all mingled with each other.

IS THIS WHY WE ARE PROGRAMMED TO SAY GOD BLESS MERIKKKA? 🤔

This makes me angry on so many levels (already mentioned in the comments). So many tragedies in this country's Anglo history.

It was 1.8 million

Yeah, the mom who left behind 3 kids was a really bad dude. People who fall for his propaganda are fools

This program does by no means acknowledge or tell the full and complete story on this episode of US history - not even close. Very one sided.

Right-wing fascists would love for this to happen again.

@Armyjayden33

3 жыл бұрын

Sure would

We here standing

What happened the the Mexicans that were here after the US fought and won the land that belonged to Mexico, like Florida, Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, California??

@Mexicano1768

9 ай бұрын

Florida and Georgia was never Mexico. Gringos didn't win the land, they stole it.

Boy we need Trump now more than ever. Mexican Americans for Trump 2024. Viva Trump🇺🇸🇲🇽

So you are saying it can be done.

DUDE? Coming from your President.

Reparations now !

We black Americans need to be recognized for our ancestors being enslaved. Brought here to build this country from the ground and its wealth. Let's have honest discussion about that!. And got no pay.

@drah9955

4 жыл бұрын

Maria Thomas...The South region not the whole country

@Mexicano1768

9 ай бұрын

your own people in Africa sold you guys....

The current illegal immigration issue, a failing economy, and racial tensions set us up for a second mass repatriation

@libreverdaderamente4450

3 ай бұрын

Time to use our 2nd amendment, to own our guns and defend ourselves

It's true my grandfather was deported being an American citizen,and I'm not racist I love my great nation,not couse of some racists people I'm not going 2 love my nation, I love my nation it's values

@Mexicano1768

9 ай бұрын

Wake up. This is not "Land of the Free", the "values" of this country are fake.....don't be a fool of the gringo....this is not a great nation.

AND I SUPPOSE THIS IS TRUMPS FAULT TOO

@Bastogne1944

7 жыл бұрын

Mike B If not, its the cis het white males fault

@marioromero1286

Жыл бұрын

No but it's in the blood of the White supremacists

@Mexicano1768

9 ай бұрын

Trump mentality

@ video time 12:30 give or take: The lady host asks: "Why just Mexicans, was it *only* Mexicans"? Response: (he takes a deep breath & then the word): "Well".......... Francisco Balderrama danced & danced around her question. The answer must be "No"......because he couldn't give a precise answer. This probably never happened. ...................and this is an author of a book. Fiction or Non-fiction?

@myrnafonseca9512

Жыл бұрын

This did happen and they are facts. He obviously did not have the facts if other races were involved.

@user-pr5

3 ай бұрын

Anybody the looked Latino!

We did it once, we can do it again! They must go back!

@rodolfogarcia_1

2 ай бұрын

Deporting U.S. citizens?

@seriouslythough9750

3 күн бұрын

Deport the REAL ones back to Europe

I think this video has shown me more history about Latinos in the U.S. than all of my years in K-12 education in public schools where I really learned NOTHING about Latino History. Thank you for this video.