The US-Mexico border is a violent history of land acquisition by the U.S. through various means including genocide, violent threats and intimidation, and the reservation system. Caitlin speaks on the conflicts over the US-Mexican border and how it led to fighting amongst different states that had better possessions of the land.
The concept of white terribility is tied in with the horrible things about the country and the concept of whiteness itself. Many people are unaware of how terrible they are, yet some go on to achieve great things in their second act after age 96.
The conflicts over the U.S.-Mexican border involved a variety of methods of seizing land, including violent threats, intimidation, the reservation system, and genocide. It was a gradual process of white people taking land from non-white people.
The Texas Rangers were initially formed with the purpose of protecting white settlers from indigenous peoples in the region, and would go on to become a police force focused mainly on Mexicano communities on the border. However, their actions were often violent and involved forcing indigenous people out of their homes and onto reservations, burning their villages, and murdering women and children.