Author: Joe Barerra
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Spanish Explorers shaped the American founding | Joe Barrera
We know the story of America’s founding. It started at Jamestown in 1607 with the first permanent English colony, then moved on to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in 1620. We followed these English-speaking colonists whose stern, impassioned tread blazed a trail across the wilderness, eventually growing their settlements into the thirteen colonies that declared…
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A sense of futility about launching another war on foreign soil | Joe Barrera
On Saturday, I went to the No Kings demonstration in downtown Colorado Springs. I was surprised by the huge size of the crowd. Surely, I told myself, this popular manifestation cannot represent Deep Red Colorado Springs. But there must have been at least 20,000 people, ranged along North Nevada Avenue on both sides of our main thoroughfare,…
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COLUMN: Latinos: Strong in numbers, without real power, leadership
Latinos number at least 60 million in the U.S. We surpassed African Americans as the largest minority long ago. There are a lot of us, but in the eyes of our compatriots, those people we call “Anglos,” we’re still mostly invisible. Contrary to what those who fear us believe, we don’t have real power. When…