i can t see far enough. anthony: now, i guess unlike a lot of texans who take a rather romantic view of those early days, you seem to view it in a darker prism. roger: it is dark. the story of texas can get a little too polished. it was a conquest, and people forget that. there were people here. the spanish and the mexican authorities wanted to exterminate the apaches. they created the society for the extermination of the barbarians.” anthony: so, the classic cowboy and indian film of scalp-hungry indians was not really the case. roger: well, they took scalps too. but they kind of learned from the anglos, and when the texans came in it intensified. if you were a rancher coming out here in the 1870s, you d better have a lot of guns, because you were an invader. and the people you were invading knew you were an invader. [ meat sizzling ] anthony: oh, damn. you know, if you look at the legend of this place, you know,
and breadth of this country will understand, as you have indicated, that this is just the genesis is this, that there are many revelations that may come to us as we proceed with this redistricting across the country. and that we have to stand together. we have to unify ourselves to prevent this from becoming pervasive. a bit more empirical evidence, i believe, is important. texas is the only state, the only state to have two new congressional districts accorded it by virtue of the census. in fact the population growth was about 16% in the state of texas. the state of texas had growth that was 95% among minority persons. 95%. yet minority population generally speaking is not acquiring new congressional seats. they re going to the republican party. and they will be going to anglos for the most part. i believe that the international
from as far north as nashville, tennessee, and started to take over. didn t happen all at once, but over time. the texas-born mexicans were soon out numbered, so the anglos restricted their access to voting, made it more difficult for them to hold on to land and used police violence including by the famed texas rangers against them. it kept intensifying. might sound familiar to you. it could be the next book definition of colonization, except it probably wasn t in the textbooks you were reading in grade school. you like most people with an american education were probably fed fables about the courageous white settlers like day vi krokt and daniel boone defending the alamo against the mexican invasion. the mexicans just wanted their land back. but they lost. and to the victor goes the
Mass vaccines helped slow San Antonio s 1970 deadly diptheria epidemic
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A Navy corpsman gets ready to innoculate a resident with diptheria vaccine on Sept. 22, 1970, at San Antonio Municipal Auditorium. The potentially fatal respiratory illness affected mostly children, but adults and children alike were vaccinated to help stop the spread of the disease.File /San Antonio Express-News
Wasn t there a time in the late 1960s where we had a diphtheria epidemic? I remember as a teen standing in line at what was then Municipal Auditorium to be inoculated. Liz Marshall
To many readers, diphtheria might sound like an antique disease, associated with the story of Balto, the husky hero of the eponymous 1995 animated movie about the leader of a sled-dog team that brought antitoxin serum from Anchorage to suffering children during a 1925 epidemic in Nome.
of a disease. ten thoughts about things he generations of americans have where the president has caught a could have done differently, responded with a simple creed he s not the entirety of the tlfrresources, lot of flak for eliciting a disease but i fully agree with better, 12 years after he there was food, and there is that sums up the spirit of the you that it s an emergency. chant of send her back which this flare up of symptoms is an i think what has happened, and i is a terrible racist chant, but people. said yesterday, primaries are nothing like this. emergency, but i don t think collective therapy. the reality is thousands of yes, we can. donald trump is possible without i don t think you can move people are being sent back every multiple overlapping system forw day in our name because of the yes, we can. grappling with what do we do in policy decisions of this the religious rite are failures in the economy, the the past that s still working politics, the institutions, the