The first time this Blogger heard about the egregious treatment of Mexican-Americans in Texas, by the Texas Rangers and Anglo Texikans, was when he attended a NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers). He was there to lobby a Latino writer/Director to develop a project about the Cristero War in México, a war in which the Mexican government tracked down and killed Roman Catholic priests. In one seminar, the legendary actor Edward James Olmos encouraged the assembled talented Latinos to write about the bloody yoke placed on Mexicans in Texas. Below is a well meaning article in the NEW YORK TIMES about Anglos lynching Mexicans in Texas. The article confirms that there is a streak of perhaps irredeemable racism in the American gene pool; the outraged article skips the concept that the American character may not only be racist, but mean as hell. In the play 1776, the character BENJAMIN FRANKLIN explains the birth of the American character:   “….   We...

In the archives of the oral history of World War II, there is a very seminal interview   pertinent to the current 2018 border conditions. In the interview, an aging G.I. not a RAMBO nor an Audie Murphy, just a grunt, pulled from his factory job, his bowling league, his softball team to go fight the Germans, tells this story.  He is on guard duty, at a river crossing. He is a private, a combat soldier. His Captain tells him not to allow any German,soldier or civilian to cross the river. All is quiet, then a group of German refugees appear, civilians , men, women and children, young and old appear and start swimming across the river. He fires into the air, half of the refugees turn back. The others keep coming; he puts a round in the water ahead of them. All turn back, save an audacious woman. She swims on. He fires again into the air; she still swims on.   The other refugees are on the opposite riverbank watching. He fires a round into the w...