A Monument to Genocide?

The inauguration of a the largest equestrian statue in the world commemorating the brutal conquistador Don Juan de Oñate divides the city of El Paso, Texas.

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[lilbear72]

Why would you honer some one who fucked over a whole nation ?! We the Native Children Of The South West will be here long after the the rest of the world has gone to hell in a hand basket !!!!!

[crappymatt]

Thumbs up if you think the statue is wrong and your education on this subject doesn't involve the movie Apocalypto.

[WIFIM101]

I watched this in a 7th grade NM History class... how many people do you think laughed at 2:03 and 3:48?

[rriverstone1]

@rrmfg You make a lot of ASSumptions about folks you are too lazy & stupid to even know. Look me up; I live in circumstances you're too lazy & stupid to comprehend, let alone survive. The "bloodthirsty savages" were the Spanish. You're just a racist loser. By the way, troll, I wasn't talking to you; I was talking to the videographers. So, consider yourself dead to me. I can't abide cowards like you. Hurry up and die; young people need the oxygen.

[rrmfg]

@rriverstone1 Oh please, give me a break. You're like all the rest of the rest of the do gooder liberals that denounce the likes of Onate and then commune with nature on a tract of land in the mountains of northern New Mexico and establish an artist colony. Never mind the fact that if it were not for Onate the "peace loving native Americans" (AKA blood thirsty savages) would murder you on the spot while you took in the beauty of the American South West. Viva Don Juan de Onate y Salazar!!!

[lekkerfiss3]

Genocide....the Aztecs and Toltecs practiced genocide themselves-welcome to the real world.

[rriverstone1]

I am SO sorry this happened. Makes me sick.

[braven117]

This is not the largest equestrian statue in the world, you dont know about the Manuel Tolsa´s equestrian statue of Charles IV in Mexico City, it weights 26 tons, and this one of Juan de Oñate weights 18 tons.

[billymaysproductions]

i dont know what to think of this im half spanish half native

[Infocaccoo]

It wasn´t a genocide...it was a war...and he won. That´s all.

You know..."cry like a woman what you do not know to defend like a man"

... Spain was a great country...not now...a pity.