Historian Joshua Zeitz wrote on X, “This guy represents California in Congress — one of 9 current states whose territory the US won in part or whole during the Mexican War of 1848.”
“These guys spent so much time erasing American history that they forgot to read it,” wrote BET host Marc Lamont Hill.
To those that read the article: Somebody is quoted saying that, from its inception, every inch of US territorywill was taken. That’s not correct, which is ironic given the context. Alaska and the Louisiana purchase, which includes the largest land grab for the US, were not taken by force, they were purchased. Now, the land was taken from the indigenous people, but not originally by the US.
Just pointing that out before the inaccurate statement grows legs and takes off.
Louisiana purchase was taken. The price was dictated by the US government.
Edit: important note not mentioned above is that a lot of the land in said purchase was only technically belonging to the French and was really native controlled and inhabited.
That’s really stretching the meaning of “taken”, isn’t it? Regardless, it’s all plays on words because ultimately it wasn’t the French’s land to sell. The point is that we didn’t “take” the land through force from the French. We did ethnically cleanse the fuck out of it though.