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La verdadera historia del 5 de mayo. | David E. Hayes-Bautista | TEDxCiudaddePuebla


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I’m not a girl, so I do not speak Spanish
but I speak 8 but I assure you I speak 18
perfect
I was not born in the port of the
angels and raise me in the Chicano neighborhood
from the east of the angels and I was educated in
the public schools there in california
from kindergarten to doctorate and
every year I was taught that Latinos
we never had anything to do with the
california history nor the history of
us other peoples founded that nation
other people formed that society but
we Latinos did not have anything
what to see
when I was studying for a doctorate in
medical center of the University of
california in san francisco touched me
witness a magisterial presentation
about the history of medicine by the
rector founder
started with the Egyptians then online
direct the Greeks the Romans
reborn hardware pasteur fleming
all culminating in our campus the
medical center
great applause
I felt bad so raise your hand
dear rector a question please
yes young in the young woman back then
that wonderful history story
of medicine everything happened in the old
world in the oriental mystery that we
can inform you about the story
of medicine here in the Americas in
the western hemisphere
and suddenly suddenly as if I gave him
a slap put his face on Juan de
you see and for the first time I saw it without power
talk when diving
at last
recovered balance and he answered that in
his so British accent
I do not have the slightest idea and I suppose
they will have done something but it should not be
very important because nobody has
written his next question story
for the problem solved
for me the problem worsened again
in fact I personally felt
rejected again me my family my
Chicana people we belong to the
historical narrative and what’s interesting is
that I’m an eighth American
generation of Mexican origin
my family has received there on the other side
for more than 300 years before even
there was the usa
however in schools we always
taught Latinos are not part of
this country are not foreigners good
East
I need the clicker
good as almost all of my generation
of the Chicano movement feeling
rejected by the history of california
then we reject the story
of california and we sink into the
Mexico history
but how wonderful the greatness of the
Mesoamerican civilizations the
meeting of two worlds 300 years of
colony independence the revolution
the modern nation
but I was fascinated by history
Mexican but as my family has
resided on the other side of the border or
300 years
we were not part of that story either
and that was the dilemma girl no no
we are not even in the history of
california nor in the history of mexico
we just did not have history
we had past we existed as beasts
but without history 30 years ago I published
My first academic book demographics
I’m an epidemiologist demographer and 30 ago
years we project that by the year 2030 the
45 percent of the population of
california was going to be of Latin origin 45
percent
I am a good todologist, we saw with each
sign census and in fact today the
Latinos we are 41% of the population of
california we will reach the priest between 5
soon
and you will have heard the Latinos are
the future of california yes but a
future recharges on the foundations of its
past history then we have
future future we Latinos do not
we have history
I wanted to know more about him because there is no
Latino history then I took out
several california history books
two of iu and they all gave me the same
image more or less images like that in a
remote time came Spanish from the
Iberian Peninsula to California and I decided
they were not really Spanish Mexicans
they built their famous missions and their
descendants fell asleep they did it to
see then california happens to the power of
you discover the gold thousands come
of English speakers looking for gold
Latinos are dispossessed of their land
they enter a social decline and you appear
in the daily life of california
the exposure decline disappearance
that is the historical narrative of the in
the English stories of Latinos
in California
well I am from mou graph
and the idea of disappearing is totally
it does not make any demographic sense like that
do not go the populations in fact we are 15
million Latinos in california a
such a large population does not come from nowhere
suddenly from night to day we appear 15
millions no no no no but there was nothing
the story then I decided to build
a demographic model of Latinos the
presence of Spanish speakers
let’s say from 1769 to the present
so you need to know high
demographic how many were born how many
they married how many children had
how many died
but as California moves to peace with power
from the USA almost no birth certificates
and of death I need data not
I was looking for data and then I found what
I was going to be the jewel of my investigations
historical latinas
and was
the press in Spanish published in
california from 1851
and newspapers in Spanish published
announcements of births announcements of
marriage announcements of deaths but
he also read in his pages the life
Latin daily after moving to
power of the us but life written by
Latinos themselves a little present and
not for Latinos
your pages offered me another narrative
History of Latinos in California
in fact it is an expansion narrative
there was a demographic explosion of a
power to lie and to be in draft at
changing world indeed the new
narrative that I got from those newspapers
they informed me of the water efforts
what Latinos did to get the
light the modern state of california
American can summarize very
briefly
and I’m the 310 because they are left with declares the
independence from mexico not and also
almost in the same breath decrees the
equality of the races in vote and if the
citizenship and the abolition of
slavery
then california the part of mexico well
that those were the principles
Constitutional Law that governed the
country
abolition of slavery equality of
races
when california passes to the power of usa
in fact his Spanish-speaking delegates
that they were going to the constitutional convention
and they fought to maintain the rights
that they had liked as citizens of
mexico freedom equality democracy
and they helped write
the constitution of the state of california
or they also wrote a copy in
English but california came in until
objectives as a bilingual state and I
they have said all my life no no no no the
Spanish is a foreign language
forbidden in that there are of souls
speak english only not
the espanyol that is part of the story
Of California
in addition the new constitution on road the
prior Mexican abolition of slavery
the continuous and also granted rights
citizenship and voting for Latinos
mestizos and other non-white people
in fact the entrance of california as
a free state to the us of that
balance in the old balance between
slave states and states
Free Missouri Compromise of
1820 and then leads directly to the
Civil War
first history lesson the
Spanish-speakers who arrived were not
Spanish peninsulares were Mexican
they came from mexico
and they were very sources in maintaining the
freedom equality and democracy in the
state of california american
Second lesson when the war breaks out
American civilians Latinos by
Mexicans have been for causing
certain rights as part of mexico
they supported lincoln and the united states
against the slavers who fought for
keep slavery white supremacy
and government by the elites of
plantations
but since the first meeting between the
Lincoln Army and the Army of the
slavers what horror they won the
slavers and in california in their
newspaper his ancients read three
defeat after defeat after defeat for
the army of abraham lincoln
and the so-called slave republic
expanded as possession of new mexico
took possession of arizona next stop
the port where the angels where I
I was born
and then I read in the pages of the
newspapers the anxiety of Latinos is
of us follow the statesmen if
they control us that we would not be
slaves and our children are going to grow
slaves do things to him because they are already
but really bad and then they got worse
why Napoleon third send his
Mexico army to overthrow
President Juarez to destroy the
Mexican Republic and smash the
constitution and impose a monarch that
then I could make an alliance with
the slavers u and if things go from
bad in worse
eagerly Latinos in california
they read the news the preliminaries of
solitude the proclamation of orizaba the march
of the French troops towards the city
from Mexico
and if it takes mexico reaches maximiliano it
ago that certain alliance in
who receives the won our
Slavers
but before arriving in Mexico
the French hosts have to pass
through the city ​​called puebla
the news took three weeks in
travel from Mexico to another point the
steam to san francisco and three weeks
after the battle of puebla the
Latinos in california read
and Mexico and the independence of the
French failed to Mexico and not
they could place maximiliano to do
to make an alliance while the
slave owners had military success the
victory on May 5 gave him no
one more year to find a general who
could win a battle against the
slave owners and the news electrified to
The latinos
there were spontaneous celebrations immediately
celebrating the unexpected victory of 5
May and after the jubilation the Latinos
they organized themselves in patriotic meetings
Mexicans in 129 locations in
california oregon and snowfall the
they met every month they heard speeches
patriotic where they hoisted the
May 5 glories and also
encouraged to contribute money to
send it to juárez for the purchase of
munitions of war and they were the first
remittances
in fact before the civil war
and every five of years May 5 every year
Latinos from the Far East
they paraded through the streets of the
cities and towns of california nevada
Oregon announcing with music pavilions
and portraits of juárez and lincoln su
position in the politics of war
civilian who were opposed to slavery
they supported freedom were opposed to the
pre sum supported white supremacy
equality of races opposed the government
by elites supporting democracy
when they join with tube they postulate their
re-election still in the middle of full
war Latinos supported that they did
campaign and look at the
flags that encourage the Mexican vote
and the USA
I do not know about lincoln
and then when the
presidency of juárez two Latinos in
california they asked for the vote in the
outside to support Juarez
so we see that from it two the beginning of
the festivities of May 5 came from the
Latin experience of the civil war
North American
and the custom of celebrating May 5
every year has lasted in the angels for
155 years every year but the story that
I just told you it was lost or it was
erased over the course of the century and
medium
I know descendants of families
who organized it for the first time
105 years and history in their families
you can already
I was not looking for the history of the
May 5th I am poor demographer
epidemiologist just looked for data
births marriages deaths and
the pages of newspapers I read
the story of May 5
so
I decided because I was approaching
sesquicentennial of the battle of puebla
write a book is this and went out to
time for the festivities of the 150
anniversary of May 5 on May 5
in american integration and five years
then I can declare with all
certainty that in fact on May 5 the
battle of puebla occurred on May 5
three great towns of the
North American continent first emerged
the Mexican people that from this moment
forwards it already had sense of
belong all to a single nation
second then the American people
that did not stay permanently divided
between two nations but only one and the
third town the great power of the 57
million Latinos from the US resident
it’s on the other side of the borders but
conscious very aware of their
Mexican and Latin American roots
because few know about that link of those
three great towns by the battle of
people on May 5 and the city of
puebla
but now we know
now May 5 point 0 puebla
result the three great towns of the
North American continent the Mexican the
American and Latinos from the USA
know how many from now on
ahead of the great cry that unites
the three towns ready for the shout
that unites everyone here
May he live on May 5
live
that live rope
many thanks
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do not
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