Mario Marcel Salas

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Trump’s Political Rampage Against Social Justice

2 months ago | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

With Donald Trump attacking DEI, Civil Rights, the Tuskegee Airman, impoverishedimmigrants, women, federal agencies designed to help the poor, and other improvements fought for by the movements for social justice over decades, it is apparent that Trump and his administration of misfits are on a political rampage. This includes trying to remove theprovisions of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. He has also released 1500 criminals from prison that attacked and killed people at the capitol.
Many methods were used to prevent Blacks and others from participating in the voting process. When legal methods came under attack

Jan 21, 2025 | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

Many methods were used to prevent Blacks and others from participating in the voting process. When legal methods came under attack, violence and murder took place. Violent acts included hangings and beatings, as well as threats to kill the children of a Black person who attempted to vote or register to vote. The literacy test was a legal method in which potential voters had to read from a book chosen by local authorities.
The propaganda that swayed many into condoning murder, lynching, discrimination, and the hatred of Blacks and others often took a sacrilegious

Jan 14, 2025 | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

The propaganda that swayed many into condoning murder, lynching, discrimination, and the hatred of Blacks and others often took a sacrilegious form in which sections of the Bible were used in churches and elsewhere to justify the horrors of slavery. After slavery was supposedly abolished, harmful concepts remained. Various types of religious justifications for slavery and bigoted thinking existed well before this time and persisted as a result of so-called “scientific” theories.
Romanticizing a ‘Paradise’ That Never Was in San Antonio

Jan 7, 2025 | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

What the ignorant do, racists included, is to show pictures of old movies online and talk about how great they were back in the day. They will also post pictures of old TV shows, and old areas of downtown San Antonio. What they will never do is talk about the white supremacy associated with those old pictures. Showing pictures of old Amos and Andy shows in a gleeful light is but an attempt to ignore what that show actually stood for—racist stereotyping of Black people.
Pure Blooded People?

Dec 10, 2024 | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

Some Tejanos and some Blacks that could trace their ethnic origins to Spain, divorced themselves of Moorish and “Indian” ancestry and made claims to whiteness. Many Mexican Americans lost their land via racialized American legal maneuvers, which was simply legal swindling using all-white courts with all-white judges during and after slavery.
Texas Political History: Ignorance Rules the Minds

Dec 3, 2024 | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

Texas Political History according to research, colonialism and racism invents its own history by constantly transforming and shifting historical narratives. This shifting is of course designed in a complex array of social practices and fake history that is whitewashed. Also, European control often accepts minor traits of the culture it conquers such as locations, plants, animals, etc., but exercising their authority to pick and choose the traits that they would incorporate it into their culture.
Vagrancy Laws: Illegal Not To Have a Job if You Were Black

Nov 26, 2024 | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

Traditional lies are well written to shore up political power and attract the ignorant to support whatever the established lie is going to be. It is perpetuated with force so that any discussion that moves away from the lies is seen as an attempt to deny the accepted norms of white supremacy. This untouchable veil of lies is not to be questioned for it would undermine white supremacy everywhere. Over the years, slave owners have been characterized as “noble” men.
Texas Rangers: Unveiling the Dark and Bloody Legacy of Their History

Nov 19, 2024 | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

The Texas Rangers, created in 1823, had a brutal bloody past. According to Michael L. Collins (1950, 2008), in Texas Devils: Rangers & Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861, Walter Prescot Webb, a racist historian, made crucial mistakes in ballooning the Texas Rangers with lies that would become myth for those wanting fake history. Rangers in Texas would eventually become the enforcers of white supremacy.
Theft Is The Hallmark of Bigots: Stolen Legacies

Nov 5, 2024 | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

Attempts have been made to reduce the origin of philosophical thinking to Europe. This is part of a calculation to reduce the world to European thinking and has been described as a conscious attempt to enshrine white supremacy. A bias exists in the study of history, philosophy, and politics by placing a dominate impression around the Greek tradition as if no other tradition has validity.
In 1850, the Slave Population in Bexar County Increased to Over 40%

Oct 22, 2024 | saobserver.com | Mario Marcel Salas

In 1850, the slave population in Texas overall increased to over 58,000, and was approximately 200,000 by 1860. In 1850, many Texans possessed slaves, but lost approximately 3,000 slaves to freedom in Mexico. Between 1851 and 1855 approximately 1,000 crossed into Mexico and obtained freedom.