While the drunk t-ball coaches who never found the clit wear masks like f*****g cowards as they hunt Mexicans in unmarked GMC Suburbans across American cities—occasionally shooting soccer moms in the face—I thought I’d make a fun informative video about this important overlooked historical site down the street from my house where a group of mixed-race, multi-lingual warriors, with no proper legal authority, accepted the surrender of a Mexican general in 1847, effectively acquiring 530,000 acres of land for the United States.
“Defend the Homeland,” say the propaganda posts pumped out by the Trump admin recruiting incels and cosplay cowboys for DHS and ICE.
But whose land is it? Whose home is this? Ask yourself, truly, who owns all this dirt upon which we pass our too brief and disappointing lives? Who has a right to be here? For whom—or what—is this land home?
We all came here from elsewhere. Even the Native Americans crossed Bering Land Bridge before the end of the last ice age. But what was truly born here? What belongs here? We stand today wholly divided, facing each other as warring tribes ready to tear one another apart over a truth that none possess.
America is not a Christian nation. It is not a white, European nation. It was built by pagan slaves, conquered through Native American genocide, engineered by wealthy elites to ensure their own hegemony. And today, after so much erasure…
Who or what really belongs? Who was here first? There are days, most days, I’m tempted to side with the great William S. Burroughs.
“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”
It might do us all well to remember a little humility. The soil we claim so confidently to own—it is waiting. It is ready. It will swallow us whole.
More info about the Treaty of Cahuenga reenactment ceremony happening Sunday, January 11th at 12:00PM can be found at Campo de Cahuenga.
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