Phil sucks at history. Central and South America? Cuba? Puerto Rico? They all started out as colonies of Spain and Portugal, as did the South-West United States. Those colonials enslaved the natives, crushed their cultures, forced them to adopt Christianity, sacked their cities looking for gold, and raped them to "breed the savage out of them". So if white Americans are to be blamed for the actions of their ancestors, then why do modern Latinos not get blamed for the actions of their Conquistador ancestors who were arguably more brutal than white settlers? life.