“What is worse than doing evil is being evil”
Deitrich Bonhoeffer.
On page 156, Cabeza de Vaca writes “And we said to the Indians that we were going to look over them (the Spaniards) to tell them that they should not kill them or take them as slaves.”
What? Cabeza de Vaca is writing to the King of Spain that he told the Indians that he would try to convince the Spaniards not to kill or enslave them!!!! That’s exactly what Conquistadores are required to do: kill and enslave (as long as they refused to become Christian, which was actually the case among the native who did not show a great interest in Christianity).
From a Conquistadore subjected to the Requiremiento, Cabeza de Vaca evolves into a new man: a Chicano.
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