Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Emiliano Zapata: Mexico’s Greatest Revolutionary" video.

  1. "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees"...
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  2.  @thewalkingthrones9165  If she posed with 2 pistols in her belt, she is probably proud of his legacy. I was told by my Mexico friends that he gave the regular people hope and dignity and courage...I know many people have different opinions, but that is what I was told, and looking at the history, I could see why..
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  3.  @weirdshibainu  Too many people don't get that option, that's why Zapata instilled courage to defy into the people, that's why he made dying with dignity and conviction honorable, even sometimes a necessity....
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  4. That is so cool!
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  5.  @javiercarrillo8208  Erick is just using the old, "Let's attempt to rewrite history by throwing out completely false "facts" in order to denigrate someone whose skin color we don't like" school of historical events....
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  6. Thank you. I will read it. No matter how much we read and discover, we barely scratch the surface of those times. It is endless fascination to me.
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  7. Lenin was a sociopathic monster who cared nothing for human beings.
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  8.  @the8co291  I understand, pretty horrifying!! This last weekend I was up at a place in the Texas Hill Country talking to one of the grandmas, and she shared a story her grandfather told of going out with his dad to the field one morning and some indian raiders shot his dad with an arrow and her grandfather ran and hid in some brush, then he ran back to the house to let his mother know. The Indians were stealing the horses. There was a huge amount of conflict in the area around Fredricksburg, Texas because the Germans who immigrated there didn't know they were building farms on native American hunting grounds, and the natives had no idea that it was going to be wave after wave of settlers and tried to scare them, or drive them away. The indians were still fighting in 1903 in some areas. Our family has a receipt from the US Government showing that they reimbursed our family for horses stolen by Geronimo when he was trying to escape. There were a lot of kids taken captive as well. The indians took children who were of every race, so there were tribes that had black, mexican, german, canary islander children who grew up and married indians, or were occasionally ransomed back to family members. There are hundreds of families around that are connected to everyone! My mom was half Indian, but her mom was french english and creole. Grandma was married to a cousin of the writer O.Henry, but she had my mom with someone from a reservation that she was obviously attracted to while her husband was gone working as a cowboy on a big ranch outside Dallas. Once you start getting into family history, you fully realize how connected we all are. If you're human, you're related!
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  9.  @designjesussoto  Thank you so much for your response! I was so shocked by the question I could barely respond. You said what I wanted to say. I'm so glad!
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  10.  @the8co291  I'm not doubting your story, but if his dad said to run, how did he hang around long enough to watch multiple sexual assaults? Its obviously very possible, but I've heard stories like this in my family and with each generation it gets more and more embellished and embroidered until history is rewritten. I have heard both sides, and there was definitely some behaviour typical of violent, drunk soldiers and desperados, there was also families that followed the them, cooking, nursing and being with their men. I'm not saying at all that it did not happen, just that the idea that he was running for his life but also stayed to witness abuse sounds confusing, but maybe he hid in the barn or something, I don't know. I don't want to offend you, I'm just discussing it.
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