Americans Should NOT Celebrate Cinco de Mayo

[Marianne]

IDK why American's celebrate it although I do remember a Corona beer commercial helping to popularize it.

How Corona Made Cinco De Mayo An American Holiday

That said it does celebrate a battle between the French and the Mexican's that is worth marking. The long and short of it is the French showed up with 6000 troops to take Mexico. The Mexican forces were 2000 poorly equipped souls and greatly outnumbered. Never the less they kicked French ass and sent them packing. This should have marked the end of France as a major military power and should have put the west on notice that we'd have to bail them out occasionally. Seriously if 2000 Mexican bandido's can kick your 6000 armed to the teeth soldiers asses, then your countries glory days are over. J/S

Cinco de Mayo - Wikipedia

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The unjustified war against Mexico in which so much of their territory was looted is an embarrassment in American history. General/President Grant was among the leaders of his age to acknowledge such.

The last 70 years of Mexican imperialism colonizing the USA, and robbing us of hundreds of Billions$$ is more than enough to justify the Mexican War, and a whole new one right now. Polk was right.

"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" Meant Taking All of British Columbia

President Polk also got us the Northwest from the Brits and would have extended us all the way to Alaska had he not been tied down with winning the Southwest from the Frito Banditos.

 

[PredFan]

It's really just an excuse to drink. I'd bet 50% couldn't tell you why they were celebrating, and 80% couldn't tell you who was Mexico freeing itself from, and 99% couldn't tell you when it happened.

We don't really give two shits about Mexico, we just want to drink tequila and wear sombreros.

 

[Picaro]

We didn't get 'half of Mexico's territory' in 1848, that's just silly. they had no claim on all of Spain's former claims; it makes about as much sense as them claiming Brazil. The entire Mexican population north of Tampico to the Arctic Circle amounted to less than 10,000, and that's only if you include soldier garrisons, priests, and mission slaves. It was always an utterly ridiculous claim, bombastically stupid one at that. Why does anybody think they were desperate to grant huge colonial charters, like Stephen Austin's???

As for Cinco De Mayo, I go to those, they're fun, and hurt nothing. Americans celebrate St. Paddy's Day and other such holidays, after all.

Sorry but you are simply wrong. The US got half of Mexico's territory. That is a fact.

"From the Mexican perspective:

• The loss of about 50 percent of their territory was a matter of great humiliation and provoked ill feeling against the United States that has never fully dissipated"

Source: >> Results of the Mexican-American War

Nah. I'm 100% spot on. They just pretended they got to claim all former Spanish territories on their own, and then never occupied even a tiny fraction of it. Nobody bothered to recognize it except for convenience. There was nothing to steal from them. Apaches, Comancheros, Kiowa, etc. owned it, and raided all the way down to Tampico and Guadalajara right up to the 1850's. They couldn't even control Texas. It was just grandiose bullshit. They went through about 35 governments from 1821 to 1850, half of them Santa Anna's' the pompous tard kept resigning over and over and over, having ridiculous snit fits. They weren't even a real country yet, and now they're not one either, they're just a narco state with no real government.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I'll celebrate anything anytime I fucking well please. Got it?