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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Arlo on July 12, 2022, 01:39:08 PM
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The Texas Quote of the Day is exceptional, being that it describes part of Russell Lee's time in Texas:
"In the 19th and early 20th centuries, responding to fluctuating needs of Anglo employers, Mexican workers traveled frequently between the United States and Mexico, across a border that many perceived as arbitrary and nonexistent, because to most Mexicans, Texas was still Mexico. Depression briefly halted the movement, and in the early 1930s federal authorities deported large numbers of Mexican workers, who became scapegoats for the country's unemployment.
For those who remained, mechanization weakened their economic position. Lee found that machinery had reduced the production process (and jobs) by half, yet the labor population remained the same and verged on starvation. Tapping his Public Health contacts, he connected with a local doctor and PHS nurse and traveled with them through Crystal City's Mexican community. Most of the dwellings they explored were nothing more than shacks of scrap wood, metal sheeting, sticks and mud, with cardboard partitions and ceilings.
In nearly all the homes Lee visited, beds consisted of old blankets and quilts spread on the floor. Chickens roamed freely. There were inadequate bathroom facilities, which ---- along with a lack of running water and an overabundance of flies ---- gave rise to infectious diseases. He met victims of tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea, arthritis, malnutrition, and impetigo. Lee was sensitive to those health problems, having had his own share of afflictions in the field. His traveling and working conditions ----- long days, lack of sleep, poor nutrition, inferior sanitation, and exposure to contagions ----- took their toll on his immune system. Periodic colds slowed him down and a few more serious ailments plagued hm, including conjunctivitis, a chronic sinus infection (before the widespread availability of antibiotics), a large carbuncle on the back of his neck (likely contracted while photographing skin lesions for the PHS), and a streptococcal infection in his left hand (from the same type of bacteria that causes impetigo).
Where Lee possessed the funds to seek medical treatment, the Mexicans he met in Crystal City did not. For example, the tubercular patients he photographed couldn't afford isolated living quarters, which would have minimized the spread of the disease. Many were in advanced phases.
Aware of the community's high mortality rate, Lee visited a Mexican cemetery in Raymondville. There he found graves embellished with a mixture of secular and religious objects: primitive crucifixes, toys, empty food tins and bottles, shells, glassware, and paper flower wreaths. Lee made a particular poignant image of a child's grave ornamented with a baptismal certificate, various bottles, glassware, and two small chairs. Chalkware figures of dogs ---- inexpensive prizes given away at carnivals ---- sit atop the chairs, facing each other as if in conversation.
The burial rituals intrigued him, and he expressed his wonderment to [his boss, Roy] Stryker: "that was really something, with all the decorations on the graves from electric light bulbs to children's toys." Lee's photographs of the Raymondville graves illustrate both the mourners' material poverty and their expressions of grief. The adornments demonstrated to him a devotion that he encountered and admired elsewhere in the Mexican community, in the form of domestic shrines and altars."
----- Mary Jane Appel, "Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and Legacy," 2021. I was gifted this book recently by an anonymous reader (THANK YOU) and I believe it to be the best Russell Lee book out there.
Here is the photograph of the child's grave that Ms. Appel describes, above:
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Migrant worker Leonardo Moreno stands next to a calendar in his temporary dwelling place on the Ritchie Brothers farm in the Rio Grande Valley, 1953. As you can see, the beds in the background are made from sticks and the structure is made from tree logs and other natural materials. It's almost impossible for me to think how hard a life this was. Photo courtesy Special Collections, UTA Library , which maintains a fantastic Facebook page and would certainly appreciate a like/follow if you would consider one.
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Quick pass the tissues, alro is pulling on our heart strings again lol
Please house as many illegal immigrants as your home can handle..be sure they show up for their immigration hearings lol
Eagler
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Looks like a typical Bayaka bed from the Congo, where I grew up. Back in the 60's. We had many of the same diseases to contend with as well, tuberculosis of course, along with Leprosy, Elephantiasis, and Malaria. Looking at pictures from the Dust Bowl days, that was not unique to immigrants.
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Quick pass the tissues, alro is pulling on our heart strings again lol
Please house as many illegal immigrants as your home can handle..be sure they show up for their immigration hearings lol
Eagler
You have issues with Russell Lee, Texas and U.S. history?
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Mexican grubbing out mesquite tree in El Indio, Texas. That is tough, tough work.
Photo by Russell Lee. Here is the LOC link to this photo: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017739560/ (https://www.loc.gov/item/2017739560/)
Here is a link to all of Russell Lee's Texas photos in the LOC: https://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=russell+lee+texas (https://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=russell+lee+texas)
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A citrus harvester takes a break during work on a citrus farm in Weslaco, Texas back in 1939.
Photo by Russell Lee.
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I care not for criminals and every illegal is a criminal. There is a way to come here legally. People should do so or forever be banned from entering the US.
The same folks who do not want a wall, live behind locked doors and many times have fenced yards. Open your homes to everyone....... then you can say we should have open borders.
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I care not for criminals and every illegal is a criminal. There is a way to come here legally. People should do so or forever be banned from entering the US.
The same folks who do not want a wall, live behind locked doors and many times have fenced yards. Open your homes to everyone....... then you can say we should have open borders.
Precisely. I understand the Mexican people have problems. So did my Vietnamese family who fought for their lives on the high seas. My family still got to the USA legally after many near death experiences. I am more than happy to welcome legal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants must be deported as quickly and humanely as possible.
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Back to topic.
Weighing cotton in South Texas in August, 1936. Being out in that South Texas heat in August all day, every day was labor that required a physical commitment that not too many of us could make today. Bless these folks! Photo by Dorothea Lange.
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A girl and her brother at home in San Antonio, 1939. Humble surroundings, to say the least. I can't imagine how uncomfortable a dwelling like this could get in the summertime in San Antonio. That they persevered says a lot about them. Tough people.
Photo by Russell Lee.
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I care not for criminals and every illegal is a criminal. There is a way to come here legally. People should do so or forever be banned from entering the US.
The same folks who do not want a wall, live behind locked doors and many times have fenced yards. Open your homes to everyone....... then you can say we should have open borders.
Maybe you should do something that makes the USofA not so attractive for the American Dream.
You also need to ask yourself why they leaving their mother countries and are coming to the USofA.
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Maybe you should do something that makes the USofA not so attractive for the American Dream.
You also need to ask yourself why they leaving their mother countries and are coming to the USofA.
Do something, like secure the border? Maybe build a wall? Maybe arrest and deport them?
Why do we need to ask ourselves why they want to come here? Just stop them. No need to know why they want to come.
If your house gets robbed, do you question what you did wrong to cause it? Maybe you have nicer stuff than they do, so maybe you need to change your ways.
Maybe you will build a fence and lock your doors next time.
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This became a 'southern border is being overrun by criminals' thread somehow. Anyone - feel free to identify the criminals presented in the photos. Could it actually be that what they all have in common has nothing to do with crime? :cool:
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This became a 'southern border is being overrun by criminals' thread somehow. Anyone - feel free to identify the criminals presented in the photos. Could it actually be that what they all have in common has nothing to do with crime? :cool:
well, gee.... I wonder why.
From your original post.
You posted about illegals being deported, handsomehunk.
Depression briefly halted the movement, and in the early 1930s federal authorities deported large numbers of Mexican workers, who became scapegoats for the country's unemployment.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation#:~:text=The%20government%20formally%20deported%20around,US%20between%201931%20and%201934.
The government formally deported around 82,000 Mexicans from 1929 to 1935.[1]
This constituted a significant portion of the Mexican population in the US. By one estimate, one-fifth of Mexicans in California were repatriated by 1932, and one-third of all Mexicans in the US between 1931 and 1934.
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You didn't even try. That's ok. :)
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Kineños (King's men) on the King Ranch, 1950. In the earliest days of the ranch (1854) there was a terrible drought in South Texas and Northern Mexico. Captain Richard King traveled to the little hamlet of Cruillas in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, where the townspeople were in such dire straits that they sold all of their cattle to him in an attempt to survive the drought. A short distance out of town, while slowly driving the cattle north toward Texas, Captain King realized that, in solving an immediate problem for the people of Cruillas, he had simultaneously removed their long-term means of livelihood. He turned his horse back toward the town and made its people a proposition. He would provide them with food, shelter, and income if they would move and come to work on his ranch. The townspeople conferred and many of them agreed to move north with Captain King.
Already expert stockmen and horsemen, these resilient denizens of the rugged Mexican range became known as Los Kineños – King’s people. They and many generations of their heirs would go on to weave a large portion of the historical tapestry of King Ranch. The vaqueros shown here are the descendants of the original Kineños.
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In 1930’s British family’s were living in squalor.
TB and other serious diseases were rife.
What is this thread about?
White liberal guilt?
Grow up and bend the knee to Floyds golden coffin.
Hows the Ukraine going?
Don Lemon says you should invade Russia
You people :rofl
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Wanna talk about immigrants living in squalor? Again, happened to my Vietnamese family who legally immigrated. My mother got boils from bad water in the refugee camp and still has scarring 40+ years later from that.
Is latino immigration a new thing? No.
But neither is proper immigration processes. I can appreciate that a lot of these people went through hard times, but my views do not change.
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All for legal immigration..
Talk about some peed off ppl its the Indian software contractors I work with who have been trying to get their citizenship for years...legally
Eagler
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Wanna talk about immigrants living in squalor? Again, happened to my Vietnamese family who legally immigrated. My mother got boils from bad water in the refugee camp and still has scarring 40+ years later from that.
Is latino immigration a new thing? No.
But neither is proper immigration processes. I can appreciate that a lot of these people went through hard times, but my views do not change.
Everybody I know from Vietnam are among the best people I've met. I work with a guy who came from Vietnam and have known several over the years. They are all, to a person, sweet, intelligent and goods people. They all have similar stories of the hell they went through.
Another guy I work with is second generation from China.
I know lot's of people who came illegally from Mexico too. Some are my friends and are like my brothers. I love them and want the best for them, but I am still against any kind of illegal immigration.
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I am from Uganda
Ungawa
Yambo
How do I get a green card?
Is Vietnam near Denmark
Is Texas part of Mexico
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Maybe you should do something that makes the USofA not so attractive for the American Dream.
You also need to ask yourself why they leaving their mother countries and are coming to the USofA.
Your post are so silly. Immigrants are welcome. Immigrants come here legally.
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Your post are so silly. Immigrants are welcome. Immigrants come here legally.
Maybe they are coming to the USofA because American want the drugs that come from their country?
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Maybe they are coming to the USofA because American want the drugs that come from their country?
:rofl
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gg must be blonde.
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Yeah Milo, the millions of Mexicans that have come here illegally with their families are coming here because Americans want their drugs.
:rolleyes:
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I knew it, must be certifiably blond. The drug cartels make living in their countries unbearable.
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I just want to make clear. Milo actually thinks that the immigration problem is caused because Mexicans and Mexican families are coming to the United States to sell drugs. Lol!
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If you would like to clue in, the reason they have always come to the United States is for work. They don't come fleeing the cartels or they don't come trying to sell drugs.
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I just want to make clear. Milo actually thinks that the immigration problem is caused because Mexicans and Mexican families are coming to the United States to sell drugs. Lol!
I knew your weren't that bright but now I know for sure.
They are coming from countries to get away from the hell holes the drug cartels created.
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I knew your weren't that bright but now I know for sure.
They are coming from countries to get away from the hell holes the drug cartels created.
....and are dragging the cartels over here as well.
My dad speaks Spanish and hangs out with the Latino community whenever he can, and he has met many drug dealers face to face within that Latino community.
It's not all a noble escape from the cartels.
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A girl and her brother at home in San Antonio, 1939. Humble surroundings, to say the least. I can't imagine how uncomfortable a dwelling like this could get in the summertime in San Antonio. That they persevered says a lot about them. Tough people.
Photo by Russell Lee.
(https://i.imgur.com/chXIzvc.png)
My mother was born in 1934 in San Antonio and later moved to Dallas. I grew up there and never had air conditioning until I was 13. Wasn't so tough.