Joaquin Murrieta: The Real Zorro

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  5 років тому +88

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    • @round105
      @round105 5 років тому +3

      Bio do Jorge negrete one of the best mexican singers of mexico.

    • @servetaya5542
      @servetaya5542 5 років тому

      I really enjoyed this video. I would like you to do a video on Mustafa Kemal too.

    • @stefans7448
      @stefans7448 5 років тому

      Great fan here. Could you do something about wilhelm canaris

    • @silent-px5vk
      @silent-px5vk 5 років тому

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    • @holeephuk
      @holeephuk 5 років тому

      FRANCIS BIRTLES would be great Simon😉👍👍👍

  • @ronque23
    @ronque23 5 років тому +444

    He chopped up the bastards who killed his brother and scattered the pieces on the ground. Truly a great man!

    • @AeneasGemini
      @AeneasGemini 3 роки тому +2

      Bear in mind, many of the people he killed were probably innocent. When you choose your victims based on rumour, it's quite likely that many of those rumours would've been false. There's a reason we have a judicial system

    • @164hozey
      @164hozey 3 роки тому +20

      @@AeneasGemini his wife and brother were also innocent

    • @evanlee6644
      @evanlee6644 3 роки тому +4

      @@AeneasGemini Judicial system when racism against Mexicans was at an all time? You're delusional.

    • @queenreg7
      @queenreg7 Рік тому +4

      He was no joke. Don’t push certain people but so far……

    • @elmochomo8218
      @elmochomo8218 Рік тому

      @@AeneasGemini yeah but they didn’t care about the Hispanics that were murdered so eye for an eye

  • @Hiko.M
    @Hiko.M 5 років тому +346

    For those wondering, 300 dollars a day in 1830 would be around 8,366 dollars a day in 2019.

    • @joeskys2362
      @joeskys2362 5 років тому +1

      thanks

    • @ilfarmboy
      @ilfarmboy 5 років тому +16

      try $10,127.80 Will your figure was for around 2007-2008

    • @djcrackademiks1191
      @djcrackademiks1191 5 років тому +3

      Doug Williams can you convert that to rupees for me ?

    • @ilfarmboy
      @ilfarmboy 5 років тому +11

      @@djcrackademiks1191 726,622.66 Indian Rupees

    • @GB-ez6ge
      @GB-ez6ge 5 років тому +10

      Good money but I heard the wifi sucked.

  • @bookswithbenjamin8902
    @bookswithbenjamin8902 5 років тому +488

    The Mask of Zorro was one of my favorite movies growing up. I dressed up as Zorro for Halloween when I was like 10. I also became obsessed with sword fighting and begged my mom to sign me up for fencing classes. God Bless the 90's.

    • @NuclearGrizzly
      @NuclearGrizzly 5 років тому +8

      Twas a simpler time. :-)

    • @felixrios1600
      @felixrios1600 5 років тому +15

      I was Zorro one year as well.

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 5 років тому +9

      I miss the '90s every day

    • @artmarquez9140
      @artmarquez9140 5 років тому +6

      The 90's was the best decade ever. You should post a pic of you and your costume.

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 5 років тому +4

      @88Gibson LesPaul
      Guy Williams did play Zorro for 2 seasons. For him, it was the role of a lifetime. It was so popular in Argentina that they completely identified Guy as a real Zorro! He was so thrilled by their country and welcoming attitude, that he moved there for the rest of his life. He was 6'3", very handsome and nice. He fit as Zorro perfectly.

  • @cassianaya-bishop9309
    @cassianaya-bishop9309 2 роки тому +76

    My ancestor, Joaquin Valenzuela, was part of murrietas horse gang. My grandma told stories to us when we were young. Loved this video. Thank you!

    • @WyattEarp-dd9oh
      @WyattEarp-dd9oh Рік тому +3

      And Wyatt Earp was my great great grandpa 😅

    • @davidhouts1648
      @davidhouts1648 Рік тому +1

      I just found out the dude is my great great grandfather 😅so now I’m doin research and asking Antonio for royalties 😂

    • @pablosorto7012
      @pablosorto7012 Рік тому +1

      Tell us one of the stories that your grandma told you.

    • @thriftman
      @thriftman Рік тому +1

      he’s probably rolling in his grave

    • @jayluis189
      @jayluis189 7 місяців тому +1

      Lol

  • @CRAIG5835
    @CRAIG5835 5 років тому +887

    Enjoyed that. Man those people were treated badly. Everybody loves a vigilante who fights back against oppressive monsters.

    • @cypher4783
      @cypher4783 5 років тому +18

      It was vigilantes who started the whole concept of policing. 1500 law had it if you heard a cry for help it was your duty to respond within your means. The concept of sheriff was to have a local leader on hand to help organize this type of mob justice, some times this fallowed the law, most of the times it was just a hanging. It has always been the gold standard for a government to provide it's people with access to a simple and codified law system. And some times that means a angery man in Black leaping of roof tops. Remember took and roll on the landing.

    • @modap3000
      @modap3000 5 років тому +14

      ...except for when the oppressed are black.

    • @jeenkzk5919
      @jeenkzk5919 5 років тому +8

      Don’t worry, California is getting it in the end. It’s an absolute mess now.

    • @ManuelGarcia-mm5ci
      @ManuelGarcia-mm5ci 5 років тому +7

      That's happening these days bro every one puts Mexicans down we demand our right just like the black man bit the difference is Mexicans fought back against white men and didn't allow them selves to be enslaved shouldn't the us repay these Mexican s living in is especially fighting for armed force s..can't we get over this hatred against isexicans me in imperial valley California in holtville

    • @cypher4783
      @cypher4783 5 років тому +11

      @@ManuelGarcia-mm5ci the funny thing was it wasn't about Whites v Latinos it was about idiots who thought abusing their neighbors was their right for winning an idiotic war that no body really won from. Why do you guys have to bring race into old fashion stupidity? Crullety requires nothing more than an excuse to brutalize others! Black, latino, Asian, white and all the native nations are all the SAME! Proon to same brands of crullety bigotry, coveting, adultery and murder! If you think being different makes you so special that it absolves you of being HUMAN! You haven't seen anything of the real world yet.

  • @catatonicbug7522
    @catatonicbug7522 3 роки тому +31

    I grew up in California, and it's really sad that absolutely NONE of the atrocities discussed in this video are ever mentioned in the school system. We need to be made more aware of how poorly we have treated our fellow men in the past, so we can avoid repeating those horrible choices.

    • @TheRadioAteMyTV
      @TheRadioAteMyTV 3 роки тому

      Maybe because this video has so much wrong and your classroom teacher didn't. If you went to school in CA you should know well that James Marshal discovered gold not his boss John Sutter, and that the Golden Spike in Utah (shown at 6 minutes in) - had NOTHING to do with CA gold rushers and Mexicans were not called greaser because anyone thought they were dirty. Watch Grease, the musical or movie for a far more honest telling of why. This video is trash. Let's hope your teachers did better.

    • @e.8756
      @e.8756 4 місяці тому +2

      Same! We spent so much time on the California missions and the gold rush but we were never educated on the atrocities.

  • @DrakeMagnum
    @DrakeMagnum 5 років тому +947

    For crying out loud. That story is even more dramatic than the fictional Zorro mythos. They ought to make an honest biopic film about Murrieta.

    • @archieames1968
      @archieames1968 5 років тому +20

      An honest movie based on actual history would show him killing a bunch of Chinese for money and not because of any fictional rape or hangings so that wouldn't go over too well.

    • @j.h-j5j
      @j.h-j5j 5 років тому +88

      Or Rockstar would make red dead redemption 3, with Joaquin Murrieta as the main character. With him on a quest of vengeance against the people that took everything he loved.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 років тому +35

      Agree.

    • @johnreid5814
      @johnreid5814 4 роки тому +4

      My grandpa told me a different story of him and three fingered jack who.

    • @elpilotodeldesierto3113
      @elpilotodeldesierto3113 4 роки тому +2

      @@Biographics what story? Tell it

  • @Flaubert
    @Flaubert 5 років тому +596

    I cannot imagine the rage he must have felt.

    • @Artliker1234
      @Artliker1234 4 роки тому +32

      They raped and murdered his wife in front of him and he still had the fortitude to interact with those evil people. Sounds like he was simply pushed again and again until he had no choice

    • @gilbertgarcia776
      @gilbertgarcia776 4 роки тому +16

      @flmvdvsrg hating?🤣

    • @aaronmendoza277
      @aaronmendoza277 4 роки тому +27

      @flmvdvsrg yes because the white man never committed any type of atrocities on anyone. they were always the real victims

    • @dancingwiththedarkness3352
      @dancingwiththedarkness3352 4 роки тому +10

      When society has declared war on you and your family, you fight back for them and others in the same situation. When they have taken everything from you, all that's left is a burning desire for revenge, if they reap the fruits of that revenge, they only have themselves to blame.

    • @warrennelson9784
      @warrennelson9784 4 роки тому +1

      4 real!

  • @nttntjno1797
    @nttntjno1797 5 років тому +349

    Instead of slashing baddies in "Z" letter with his rapier. Real life Zorro just straight up choppin' dudes to bits.

    • @Wavemaninawe
      @Wavemaninawe 5 років тому +21

      Perhaps he scattered the bodyparts in a 'Z' pattern at some point, and the rumor stuck?

  • @HisCarlnessI
    @HisCarlnessI 5 років тому +146

    I mean, I can always appreciate someone fighting back 'directly' against 'actual' oppression. This guy seems awesome.

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito Рік тому +1

      But, wasn't he oppressing the indigenous people, by taking their land and depleting it of its resouces?

  • @sophiaageitos2763
    @sophiaageitos2763 5 років тому +249

    Honestly he was a hero he did what he could to help his struggling people.
    As for his cold blooded murders, he was shown no mercy so why should he portray mercy?
    It’s like slapping someone in the face and not expecting retaliation

    • @kookykoruc1827
      @kookykoruc1827 2 роки тому +2

      And then you slap them in the face in retaliation, and then they slap you in retaliation
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      Then they slap you
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      They slap
      You slap
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      ♾️

    • @sophiaageitos2763
      @sophiaageitos2763 2 роки тому +4

      @@kookykoruc1827 It is our nature to retaliate, whether moral or not. The point is the Man was pushed to limit after years of patience.

    • @FriendlyCroock
      @FriendlyCroock 2 роки тому +1

      This comments section really shows the level of mister Rey Seesm in the west

    • @FriendlyCroock
      @FriendlyCroock 2 роки тому

      It is scary folks. It really is scary.

    • @FriendlyCroock
      @FriendlyCroock 2 роки тому

      As an eastern european man I wouldn't move to the west if you payed me to. I don't care how wealthy it is.

  • @FranzPerez21
    @FranzPerez21 5 років тому +157

    Huh, I didn't realize that Antonio Banderras's character's name in "The Mask of Zorro" was a nod to the real-life Zorro. His character is actually called "Alejandro Murrieta", but his brother "Joaquin" is killed and becomes Alejandro's inspiration for becoming Zorro.

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 5 років тому +21

      It seems that every culture has a "Robinhood" legend, based on a true person.

    • @asteroses
      @asteroses 4 роки тому +7

      Woah, what an Easter Egg!

    • @BrieyaSilverweb
      @BrieyaSilverweb 4 роки тому +15

      Don't forget their buddy, 3-fingered Jack. :)

    • @silveey
      @silveey 4 роки тому +9

      Don’t forget! In the movie, he named his son Jauquine

    • @psychobillynumbnuts1
      @psychobillynumbnuts1 3 роки тому +6

      Banderra should have not played him. Hes a Spaniard

  • @deannaromero4321
    @deannaromero4321 5 років тому +363

    Joaquin murrieta is my great grandfather, my grand a paul murrieta educated us on him & we still have family reunions celebrating joaquin

    • @Babziboo
      @Babziboo 4 роки тому +30

      Congrats on being a descendant of friggin legend!

    • @deannaromero4321
      @deannaromero4321 4 роки тому +39

      @He Flies With Eagles same here i am very blessed to be able to call him a grandpa , i know his soul rest peacefully in heaven (:

    • @seafoam6119
      @seafoam6119 4 роки тому +6

      Deanna Romero mm. Mm. Thats badass.

    • @ThomasShelby6213
      @ThomasShelby6213 4 роки тому +19

      Marry me please

    • @qualityblackmansysbm3608
      @qualityblackmansysbm3608 4 роки тому +5

      What was done to him , is burned on my heart.
      I will spread his legend as well .

  • @starfiremagician
    @starfiremagician 5 років тому +41

    I can't tell you enough how much I appreciated this particular video. I loved Zorro as a kid, but unfortunately I never had much background on my idols and having this really made me appreciate my culture more. Like wow, why isn't this more known? Vigilante Mexicans fighting for their rights! So cool. Thanks Simon and team for bringing his story to life in such a well researched video! Can't wait for the next one!

  • @PATRIOT-nt5ub
    @PATRIOT-nt5ub 5 років тому +196

    SICK!!! I requested a Bio on Joaquin Murrieta about 1 year ago. Thanks Biographics. You guys are Badass!!!

    • @3EBstudio
      @3EBstudio 5 років тому +4

      so goooood the second half is epic

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 років тому +11

      You're welcome, really glad you liked it :D

    • @gabrielgarcia7554
      @gabrielgarcia7554 4 роки тому +3

      Can you guys do Tiburcio Vásquez next? He has a similar story to Joaquín.

    • @skylerarroniz4204
      @skylerarroniz4204 4 роки тому +1

      I really hope your a captain in the navy so I can call you Captain Jack Sparrow

  • @tetepeb
    @tetepeb 4 роки тому +267

    Quentin Tarantino should make a R-rated version based on his life.

    • @donguello2281
      @donguello2281 4 роки тому +8

      Genius

    • @LoboDeNoche87
      @LoboDeNoche87 4 роки тому +6

      You’re god damn right he should

    • @Spiralhead761
      @Spiralhead761 4 роки тому +9

      I heard that there might be A zorro and Django collaboration film based on the comics

    • @Loriddian
      @Loriddian 4 роки тому +8

      Django unchained is pretty much the same story

    • @kaceykace7421
      @kaceykace7421 3 роки тому +5

      It seems like that'd be more up Robert Rodriguez's alley.

  • @Mauler818
    @Mauler818 5 років тому +96

    Really loved the video, England had Robin Hood , Mexico had Zorro and Australia had Ned Kelly. Would love to see a bio graphics on Ned kelly.

    • @judymcleod3981
      @judymcleod3981 3 роки тому +2

      Except that Ned Kelly was nothing but a thief and murderer. He wasn't in way persecuted, just a criminal in a family of criminals.

    • @mitchellneu
      @mitchellneu 3 роки тому +2

      Wish granted, there’s a Biographics on him

    • @nataliekennedy4646
      @nataliekennedy4646 3 роки тому +3

      He wasn’t zorro tho

  • @caroroj2395
    @caroroj2395 4 роки тому +63

    He took the law into his own hands because there was no justice, so in this case, the environment really did create him.

  • @torreong91
    @torreong91 5 років тому +149

    Greetings from Murrieta, California

    • @johnjohnz3215
      @johnjohnz3215 5 років тому +3

      See you at Joanies or Side lines bro! Or maybe i see you blowin your HARD EARNED CASH at Pechanga🤘😬🍺

    • @shesaknitter
      @shesaknitter 4 роки тому +8

      I live in Escondido and used to go to a day spa in Murrieta once a month or so with friends. None of us had any idea about Joaquin Murrieta. I'm glad I know about him now!

    • @stephaniewhite5644
      @stephaniewhite5644 4 роки тому +1

      Too cool!

    • @eliasmd2003able
      @eliasmd2003able 4 роки тому +2

      Greetings from Fresno

    • @noirekuroraigami2270
      @noirekuroraigami2270 4 роки тому

      Lol Hot Af over there....but the females are Easy my friend

  • @ivetakonvalinkova8583
    @ivetakonvalinkova8583 5 років тому +53

    I hate that media calls him serial killer or bloody criminal, although everything he wanted was defend people from rasism, slavery, greed, and most importantly take a revenge of his family's death.

    • @AeneasGemini
      @AeneasGemini 3 роки тому +4

      He was absolutely a serial killer, he fits the technical definition. I doubt he cared about escaping racism, he just wanted to satiate his bloodlust for revenge. Ultimately I imagine that after his death racism got much worse because of reprisals.
      Also, bear in mind he probably murdered a fair few innocent people, he found people based on rumours and rumours are not exactly reliable. I doubt he cared much whether the people he killed had actually oppressed anyone, he just wanted to sate his rage

  • @semi-trad-kind-of-wife
    @semi-trad-kind-of-wife 5 років тому +169

    Those men deserved what Murrieta did to them. They ripped so many lives to pieces, it's only fitting they ended up in pieces themselves.

    • @SeadogDriftwood
      @SeadogDriftwood 3 роки тому +4

      Vicious? Yes. Brutal? Certainly. But given that the alternative was to lie down and die, Murrieta absolutely did the right thing. When the dominant power sees peace as a pretext for brutality, the only proper answer is targeted violence.

    • @AeneasGemini
      @AeneasGemini 3 роки тому +1

      @@SeadogDriftwood Did he? The man wasn't exactly a qualified detective, it's quite likely he'd have killed a fair few innocent people too based on bad information, but I doubt he cared

    • @LanguageHelp
      @LanguageHelp 3 роки тому +1

      ​@@AeneasGemini ​ That's what war is. Also, two things here. One, it is easy in this day and age where we have democratic values, courts, and dash cams to keep law enforcement in check to look back and assume this has always been the case. The power of hindsight makes us judge people. You have to accept that laws are not always just and an unjust law warrants a revolt. "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so". Two, the standards were different and many of those you are calling innocent may not be as innocent as you'd like to think. For one thing, they were settlers in a land that was not theirs in the first place. If you say they earned it by war you only reaffirm my opening statement. If you say they were lawful according to the law, I again say the law was not recognizable by the Mexicans and Indians.

    • @joseisrael1119
      @joseisrael1119 3 роки тому +4

      @@AeneasGeminiIt could never be a wrong thing when you kill colonizers that rape and kill your people for being different. The man is a hero for sending them to hell and I love the fear he too from their souls.

    • @joseisrael1119
      @joseisrael1119 3 роки тому +1

      @@LanguageHelp exactly but his white arrogance will not allow him to see it that way. 🤣

  • @boxertest
    @boxertest 5 років тому +16

    Joaquin Murrieta needs a movie

    • @j.h-j5j
      @j.h-j5j 5 років тому +6

      And a red dead redemption videogame.

    • @murrietakenitri2157
      @murrietakenitri2157 Рік тому

      There's a series out now called La cabeza de (the head of) Joaquin Murrieta..

    • @dtcperformance82
      @dtcperformance82 Рік тому

      There’s a series of joaquin Murrieta I think it’s in prime

  • @Mychannel81736
    @Mychannel81736 5 років тому +90

    Thanks for this one. Hello Simon! I'm from Murrieta CA. An hour north of San Diego. Not coincidence, this land is his old ranchero land!

    • @johnholden7825
      @johnholden7825 5 років тому +3

      Fellow (former) Murrietan here! I loved watching Mask of Zorro opening weekend there.

    • @RubyMoonCat
      @RubyMoonCat 5 років тому +1

      Me too!!!

    • @jbtechcon7434
      @jbtechcon7434 5 років тому +1

      All Murrietans ever do is grow pot and get in car accidents.

    • @Muninnfeathers
      @Muninnfeathers 5 років тому

      @@jbtechcon7434 not even true.

    • @stefanfisher4440
      @stefanfisher4440 4 роки тому +1

      Murrieta is named for John Murrieta, who was a "ranch owner and bookkeeper in the sheriff's office." according to California Place Names by Erwin G. Goode.

  • @warrenpierce5542
    @warrenpierce5542 5 років тому +68

    To quote Bugs Bunny, "Of course you know this means war!"

  • @k1e2n3w4
    @k1e2n3w4 4 роки тому +7

    Murrietta's life could make a hell of Hollywood blockbuster. And considering the times we're living in, the timing for such a movie couldn't be better.

  • @genevievebeauchamp9018
    @genevievebeauchamp9018 5 років тому +240

    Omg! This story made my heart ake so much. I didn't know Mexican-Californians endured this type of cruel repression. This makes the Zorro movie look like whitewashing...his lifestory is more tragic than a mexican telenovela
    Thank you for sharing.

    • @worldofwoolol6082
      @worldofwoolol6082 5 років тому +12

      What about the indigenous peoples who have lived here for thousands of years ?

    • @dinkyboss
      @dinkyboss 5 років тому +19

      Geneviève Beauchamp people said from the very beginning that the story is whitewashed. But even today when you bring that up you get accused of being racist against white people 🙄😂 US history is essentially one long story about how white people were fucking evil (even considering the moral standards of the time) to anyone they didn’t consider white. Yet the movie will still cast a white person as the lead and down play that reality lol. It’s wild 🤷🏽‍♀️

    • @jbtechcon7434
      @jbtechcon7434 5 років тому +5

      @@worldofwoolol6082 Exactly. Too many narratives conveniently forget that the "Mexican" people are imperialists who killed off most of the natives of the place they colonized.

    • @ImaginaryCyborg
      @ImaginaryCyborg 5 років тому +5

      @@dinkyboss Because,let me guess...you can't be racist against white ppl?Jesus,your conception about history is that of freaking Marx.And he was dead wrong.

    • @KanBig
      @KanBig 4 роки тому +26

      @@jbtechcon7434Mexicans are the natives that were colonized, what are you talking about?

  • @joaquinm.ayaladecedoz2027
    @joaquinm.ayaladecedoz2027 5 років тому +46

    Excellent video - keep up the fantastic work!
    Small bit of trivial trivia: I was born in Spain and learned when I was very young that my first name, Joaquín, was given to me because of Joaquín Murrieta.

    • @jazieltorres9831
      @jazieltorres9831 4 роки тому +3

      Now people name their kids Joaquin for Joaquin El Chapo Guzman...lol

  • @victorcabanelas
    @victorcabanelas 5 років тому +71

    I kinda find it hard to see why people'd have seen him as a "bandit"... I mean, he had 2, 3 or 10 reasons to become an outlaw, if you ask me.
    Anyway, great video as always!

  • @alexanderm3504
    @alexanderm3504 5 років тому +386

    Dude was bad ass, he was also the major influence of batman, the creators of Batman idolized Zorro and they were part of a gang called the zorros, and guess what they birthed Batman, so make batman mexican lol jk dont get mad

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 5 років тому +27

      Why would anyone "get mad" if batman is Mexican? So what if he was or not...

    • @artmarquez9140
      @artmarquez9140 5 років тому +19

      I believe he fits as the dark knight perfectly. Hated regardless of his deeds.

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 5 років тому +36

      @@artmarquez9140
      I agree. The trauma that made him cynical and angry. There is a famous qoute that goes,
      "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster. For if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you".
      This chilling truth brought to you by Friedrich Nietzsche (Making people depressed with unpleasant truths since since 1873)!!

    • @gothempress
      @gothempress 5 років тому +10

      @@christineparis5607 I like you. You're good peeps. You stay.

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 5 років тому +4

      @@gothempress 😄😘🤩

  • @claudiarcade
    @claudiarcade 5 років тому +132

    i dont see a lot of hispanic/latino heroes in english speaking culture (even though the US is full of latinos) so when i see even just one in pop culture i feel so happy and somewhat represented.

    • @emanuelpovian1938
      @emanuelpovian1938 5 років тому +3

      Claudia Hispanics only make 17% of the population

    • @claudiarcade
      @claudiarcade 5 років тому +7

      @@emanuelpovian1938 in australia? sure about that mate? or in the world? what are you saying?

    • @cacarotogod6695
      @cacarotogod6695 4 роки тому +13

      It's a white man's society.. they control tv, music etc. Black people invented rock n roll yet the world thinks white people did.. it is what it is. Co exist.. peace!!

    • @claudiarcade
      @claudiarcade 4 роки тому +6

      @@cacarotogod6695 i refuse to accept the status quo

    • @bryceanhk1428
      @bryceanhk1428 4 роки тому +12

      Claudia Hispanics are native Americans and if you put two and two together were like 1/5th of the population they don’t want us to know that tho

  • @akirubamiru6700
    @akirubamiru6700 5 років тому +22

    I am not Mexican myself, but clearly, he is a hero. When there is no state that could guaranty justice, people would look for justice themselves ...

    • @georgeoil100
      @georgeoil100 4 роки тому

      Every American who feels his race is not getting social justice needs to vote Democrat. That's the way to get revenge.

  • @Redemtor62
    @Redemtor62 5 років тому +31

    I love how you manage to point out politics while staying totally apolitical! :)

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 років тому +8

      There's not enough of that in the world.

    • @allywilkeforsenate
      @allywilkeforsenate 2 роки тому

      All Demi rats are communist enemies of humanity.

  • @nicktanner8827
    @nicktanner8827 5 років тому +86

    I learn more from your channel than I have done during my entire time at school😂nearly at 1 million subs, keep it up!

    • @kpounders7437
      @kpounders7437 5 років тому +5

      I'm not denying that and I teach. Schools are afraid that if we teach too raw and real, some snowflake and/or the parents may be offended. I teach Spanish and would like to show this to my class, but I am afraid some of the students may be offended since it doesn't paint a pretty picture of the USA.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 років тому +2

      Thanks we will :). Hopefully 1M by Christmas!!

  • @obsidiansands
    @obsidiansands 5 років тому +46

    You know you're channel is doing something right when the current history in books taught in school is the worst thing to learn from due to the biases written in it.

  • @christineparis5607
    @christineparis5607 5 років тому +64

    I've heard of him all my life, growing up in California and my mother grew up in Chinese Camp in the Sierra Madres in the 1930s. The legend of Murrieta lives on there...there are so many stories about him everywhere...
    It's hard to believe they even survived the harsh weather, animals and other bandits who were all over the place...

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 5 років тому +3

      @blackzed
      Believe me, there were the same amount of cowards back then, if that's what you mean by "snowflakes". I know everything always thinks that everyone in their generation is weak and miserable, etc., but it's just your perception. The French have a great saying, "plus ca change, plus ces't la meme chose". which means," the more things change, the more they stay the same".
      4000 years ago archeologists found graffiti on an excavated villa that complained how young people were horrible in this "modern" time. Nothing in human history is new. The whole snowflake thing is just a recent description to describe people you don't like because you don't agree with them, that's all. Btw, I'm not supporting or decrying either, I don't care what people are...

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 5 років тому +1

      @blackzed
      I don't feel upset, but thank you for your concern! 🤩

    • @paulmanson253
      @paulmanson253 5 років тому +1

      @@christineparis5607 Are you familiar with the story of Ishi, the last wild Indian in California,who then showed how to create stone tools and literally live off the land ? Both decency and evil were done to him. Quite a tale.

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 5 років тому +1

      @@paulmanson253
      Yes!! It was a history told to us in 1st grade by a very old teacher. She was in her 60s in 1967. Can you imagine the changes she saw in California? She skipped all the baby stuff and taught us how to speak Spanish (because California was part of Spain once), about Ishi, John Muir, etc,. Muir was probably her next door neighbor! I don't know why she was still teaching, or teaching 1st graders, but she carried the whole history of early America in her head. I often think about her and wished I'd known what she had seen.

    • @paulmanson253
      @paulmanson253 5 років тому +1

      @@christineparis5607 My third grade teacher brought an Italian coin with a donut of lava neatly presented around the periphery. Prior to WWII she and her husband had visited Fascist Italy. Since many of the hotel rooms were bugged,they referred to Hitler and Mussolini as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Hiked up to the top of Vesuvius, and the guide took a pole,took a coin from the husband,and created the lava torus for the tourists. I handled that,never guessing that 20 years later I would look at that mountain and listen to a local who disbelieved the story and made it clear this was not a pastime currently done. Life is strange sometimes.
      In Bologna the best accessory was a PCI keychain. Communist Party of Italy. Swinging that got things done. From one extreme to another.

  • @marcusvachon845
    @marcusvachon845 5 років тому +14

    The true story of the legend of Zorro has always been more interesting to me than the Hollywood version. Thank you for the good video.

  • @Susiruhtinas
    @Susiruhtinas 5 років тому +13

    Murrieta inspired Zorro, who inspired Batman.

  • @alejo1995161
    @alejo1995161 5 років тому +3

    Not a hero, not a villain, just a man who lost everything and was prepared to kill for his justice

  • @inthebiscuits
    @inthebiscuits 5 років тому +21

    Thank you!! So few people have ever even heard of Joaquin Murrieta; it's otherwise a lost chapter in California (ergo American) history.
    Gregorio Cortez I think would be another worthy bio

  • @mafiousbj
    @mafiousbj 4 роки тому +11

    He was Batman basically, probably even more justified because of the lawless times
    He even actually inspired Bob Kane so maybe history is stranger than fiction sometimes

  • @joaquinmurrieta9660
    @joaquinmurrieta9660 3 роки тому +17

    Muy buen descripcion de la historia de Joaquin Murrieta! Nacido en Trincheras, Sonora. Mexico!

  • @Wardner213
    @Wardner213 5 років тому +61

    Could you please do a bio on Ip Man? Thank you :)

  • @albertoe8740
    @albertoe8740 5 років тому +13

    Wow this is amazing, I love the Mask of Zorro movie but I was unaware that so many of the characters in the movie were based on real people. The Murrieta brothers, 3 fingered Jack, Capitan Love and that scene where he shows Alejandro Murrieta the head of his brother Joaquin in a jar full of what I guess is alcohol. Heck even the WANTED poster is the same that was used in the movie! This is incredible thank you so much for this episode!!!

  • @menachemherrmann5955
    @menachemherrmann5955 5 років тому +51

    I love this one in particular very good job simon keep up this heavenly work😁

  • @historywitcash3514
    @historywitcash3514 5 років тому +104

    I’m black and he one of my heroes. They did that men beyond dirty, especially with his wife, in dropping bodies after that to

    • @blueberryj2
      @blueberryj2 5 років тому +17

      Historywitcash africans and native americans are biggest victims on colonization....as current latinos and african americans need to fight back LEGITAMATELY 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 avenge our ancestors

    • @MrDeagunJones
      @MrDeagunJones 5 років тому +2

      @@blueberryj2 Beat up whitey!

    • @sostrucking
      @sostrucking 4 роки тому +13

      @@blueberryj2 so, avenge your ancestors by attacking people who had nothing to do with the persecution of your ancestors. Yup, brilliant thinking right there.

    • @sostrucking
      @sostrucking 4 роки тому +5

      @@blueberryj2 you do know some Native American tribes had black slaves too? 5% of slaves coming across the Atlantic came to the United States with 2% of Americans owning slaves.

    • @demetriussmith7241
      @demetriussmith7241 4 роки тому +1

      joe king ok joe king let me say this the Indian slave owners leaders was also white men with very little to known Indian blood they protected the white men

  • @johna1160
    @johna1160 5 років тому +10

    I'm a 66 y.o. native Californian. Never knew there was such a thing a California Rangers.

    • @DickDiamond74
      @DickDiamond74 5 років тому +1

      all the western territories had a ranger of some sort i believe.

    • @joseisrael1119
      @joseisrael1119 3 роки тому

      Yes they were nothing but a government funded racist hit squad of psychotic rapists and murderers. Texas ranger were the same.

  • @julievazquez3839
    @julievazquez3839 5 років тому +24

    Just so you know Simon, "ranchero" = rancher, "rancho" = ranch. 😉

  • @registeelix
    @registeelix 5 років тому +140

    Mr. Simon! Have you ever considered doing a biography of yourself at 1 million? You definitely should!

    • @MattanzaMafiaFedora
      @MattanzaMafiaFedora 5 років тому +8

      He won't do one, and they've stated numerous times.

    • @Dfg26907
      @Dfg26907 5 років тому +11

      Dude you ask like every video and they tell you no everytime I've seen the channel itself say no 😂.

    • @GottliebGoltz
      @GottliebGoltz 5 років тому +1

      Ya - Ditto.

    • @fred3467
      @fred3467 5 років тому +2

      Simon is like Greta Garbo.....secretive and enigmatic. I like his aura of mystery!

    • @shawn0md
      @shawn0md 5 років тому

      @@fred3467 So you're comparing Simon to a hermaphrodite.

  • @flibnit1
    @flibnit1 5 років тому +2

    I want Simon to narrate every commercial everywhere. This kind of honest desperation mixed with defeated nonchalance is oddly refreshing and I think I need more of it

  • @maryamtara2934
    @maryamtara2934 5 років тому +22

    America.... the land of the “free” 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    • @skylerarroniz4204
      @skylerarroniz4204 4 роки тому +5

      Alle TATA the land of the snakes 🐍 thieves and back stabbers

  • @joerobot8118
    @joerobot8118 3 роки тому +2

    this is my great grandfathers great uncle, no joke. so cool to see a channel I like cover this.

  • @RobertRascon87
    @RobertRascon87 5 років тому +15

    Fun Fact: I live in Murrieta, Ca !

  • @Erdnussbuttertoast
    @Erdnussbuttertoast 5 років тому +12

    wtf wtf wtf.... i always thought that was a fictional character bc the only way i've been in contact with Joaquin Murrieta is through John Rollin Ridge's book... i published an essay about it.... how did i not know this was a real person?

    • @gabbar51ngh
      @gabbar51ngh 2 роки тому +1

      Zorro was technically based of Scarlett Pimpernel while taking inspiration from real life individual as well

  • @KD-jb9pq
    @KD-jb9pq 5 років тому +4

    De Mejico es California para siempre.

  • @Dr_Do-Little
    @Dr_Do-Little 5 років тому +7

    Zoro was my favorite childhood hero. (Or a close contender at the very least.) As a French Canadian kids in the 70's it was my first introduction to the existence of a "Latin North-America".
    The real story is much darker but he's still a hero.

  • @tykellerman6384
    @tykellerman6384 5 років тому +29

    That’s what happens when a man has no other choice to survive

    • @tykellerman6384
      @tykellerman6384 5 років тому +1

      88Gibson LesPaul I would like to believe that’s as well sometimes we have to fight for what is right👍🤠

  • @awesomestuffonly5483
    @awesomestuffonly5483 2 роки тому +4

    Very well done video. It is good to say, though, that there were apparently more inspirations for Zorro and it is believed that one of the biggest inspirations, besides Joaquin Murrieta, was William Lamport (aka Don Guillén de Lamport y Guzmán or Guillén Lombardo), an aristocrat with double identity who secretly fought the inquisition in Mexico city. His story is facinating as well and in several ways it reminds of Zorro even more than the story of Murrieta.

  • @Jeremy-ql1or
    @Jeremy-ql1or 5 років тому +12

    When he starts talking about Squarespace, skip to 11:05.

  • @DJYaga34
    @DJYaga34 5 років тому +43

    A biographics on Harriet Tubman would be awesome. Thank you.

  • @chasingsafety796
    @chasingsafety796 5 років тому +25

    Please do Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo soon

  • @skyden24195
    @skyden24195 5 років тому +9

    In 2014 I bought the complete seven book comic series of "Django/Zorro." The series was co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner, (illustrated by Esteve Polls). The series is the official sequel to the Tarantino film, "Django Unchained." The story takes place shortly after the events of "Django Unchained," with Django Freeman continuing his life as a bounty hunter in the western territory of Arizona. Here, Django meets Zorro and the two men team up to fight injustice. Awesome series.

    • @brigadierblue221
      @brigadierblue221 4 роки тому

      Thanks for this comment
      Just went and bought the TPB 😁😁

  • @joyjones8231
    @joyjones8231 5 років тому +14

    wow, that's super gruesome...I love history.

  • @kimjongun6746
    @kimjongun6746 5 років тому +24

    Now I understand the current situation of the US:- You reap what you sow.

    • @thepoopfactor
      @thepoopfactor 5 років тому +5

      And before this it was the Spanish oppressing and killing the actual natives. I guess they reaped what they sowed too.

    • @joesmith7185
      @joesmith7185 4 роки тому +5

      @@thepoopfactor and before them it was natives verse natives. Raping ,slaving and stealing land

    • @shingydingy152
      @shingydingy152 4 роки тому +4

      mind your own country kim jong un

    • @citrusblast4372
      @citrusblast4372 4 роки тому +4

      @@joesmith7185 as if europeans were any better back in their land

    • @aarinwold9263
      @aarinwold9263 4 роки тому

      Yeah kim! Like you have room to talk!

  • @juanandrade9859
    @juanandrade9859 5 років тому +12

    I’m so hyped about this video ! Keep up the great work!

  • @lukesams3349
    @lukesams3349 2 роки тому +4

    This makes The Mask of Zorro feel like a strange alternative timeline in which Joaquin was the one who died, Alejandro became the vigilante, and Harry Love was a U.S. Army captain

  • @jonathanderas2585
    @jonathanderas2585 5 років тому +13

    I just wanna thank you for talking about Joaquin Murrieta a Mexican hero

  • @rodrigodiazdevivar6183
    @rodrigodiazdevivar6183 5 років тому +11

    What is not discussed is that later Zorro served as an inspiration for Batman....Meaning Batman has the origin of a dead Mexican's head in a jar.

    • @gadguard
      @gadguard 5 років тому

      That's interesting I never knew. Thanks for the food for thought.

    • @farticlesofconflatulation
      @farticlesofconflatulation 5 років тому +5

      The final minutes of the video referenced that fact

  • @angelcanez4426
    @angelcanez4426 Рік тому +3

    Zorro our only Mexican superhero gets played by Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins 😂 we can't catch a break

  • @josesalven7242
    @josesalven7242 3 роки тому +2

    sea chileno o mexicano, este hombre es un guerrero hispanoamericano! viva la hispanidad!

  • @corazonbeso
    @corazonbeso 5 років тому +6

    Thank you for this!! Zorro was one of my favorite movies of all time. I know the film very well so I was able to recognize the people in this video. ❤️❤️

  • @rorysyers8457
    @rorysyers8457 5 років тому +10

    That Yellow Bird guy seems cool, I'd like to see a Bio on him.

  • @loraradovanovic8891
    @loraradovanovic8891 5 років тому +3

    Why is this story not a popular and beloved tv show by now ?

  • @bigtimepimpin666
    @bigtimepimpin666 5 років тому +3

    "Cabrillo" was actually "Cabrilho" and he was actually Portuguese but showed up under service to the Spanish crown.

    • @jonathanalarcon1997
      @jonathanalarcon1997 5 років тому +1

      The H sort of makes that Y sound in Portuguese so that makes sense

  • @constipatedinsincity4424
    @constipatedinsincity4424 4 роки тому +3

    4:48 and kids today complain about WiFi. I applaud His determination and ambition . I agree with what needed to be done.

  • @ericgarcia5729
    @ericgarcia5729 Рік тому +1

    Anyone who fought against the cruel treatment of foreigners is a hero in my book

  • @dapper2407
    @dapper2407 5 років тому +63

    Can you please do one for Arkan "baby face physco" Raznatovic, Notorious crime boss from Yugoslavia who was protected by the political elite while being on Interpols most wanted list. Creating and commanding the Serb Volunteer Guard better known as Arkan's tigers that fought and carried out many different operations during and after the Yugoslav wars. Also known for taking care of Josip broz Titos dirty work. Eventually getting indicted by UN on 24 counts of crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and violations of the laws of war. He was assassinated in January,2000 at the intercontinental in Belgrade.

    • @DSCNITZLE
      @DSCNITZLE 5 років тому +9

      the Slovenian politician and Federal Minister of the Interior, Stane Dolanc. Dolanc was chief of the secret police and a close associate of the Yugoslav president, Tito.
      Dolanc helped him, allegedly as a reward for his services to the Yugoslav secret state police (UDBA), as seen in the escape from the Lugano prison in 1981. Dolanc is quoted as having said: "One Arkan is worth more than the whole UDBA."

    • @dapper2407
      @dapper2407 5 років тому +8

      A government official was qouted saying, "Arkan became an untouchable criminal figure in Belgrade and all of the former Yugoslavia. He was really so powerful, so strong financially that no one could do anything about him."

    • @PoloProducing
      @PoloProducing 5 років тому +6

      During his criminal years he racked up convictions or warrants in Belgium (bank robberies, prison escape), the Netherlands (armed robberies, prison escape), Sweden (20 burglaries, 7 bank robberies, prison escape, attempted murder), Germany (armed robberies, prison escape), Austria, Switzerland (armed robberies, prison escape), and Italy.

    • @leeolsson5271
      @leeolsson5271 5 років тому +8

      Sounds like an amazing candidate! I’d love to watch that. Giving you a thumbs up, hoping Simon sees this.

    • @dapper2407
      @dapper2407 5 років тому +3

      In the famous photo of Arkan and his tigers on the tank where Arkan is holding a baby tiger by his scruff. the photographer explains how Arkan liberated the tiger from a zoo in a city they captured with Arkan stating "well we are the tigers" LOOOOOOL

  • @CarlosRodriguez-hb3vq
    @CarlosRodriguez-hb3vq 5 років тому +5

    This reminds me of the time a white friend asked a Mexican friend “how long has your family been in this country.” Awkward. The answer was, “longer than this place has been in this country.”

    • @Delicious_J
      @Delicious_J 5 років тому

      I lost faith in the Americans years ago. They never learn and refuse to change.

  • @hippolyteandrieu9159
    @hippolyteandrieu9159 Рік тому +1

    To put in a nutshell, a Mexican man called Murrieta saw his brother killed in front of him and was accused of horse theft. He became a vigilante dress in black and fought with the help of a man named Three Fingers Jack against an american called Love who enjoys cutting head to put them in a jar with alcohol. This is the exact story of Martin Campbell's movie The Mask of Zorro

  • @willk8687
    @willk8687 5 років тому +44

    Wow those racists sound like cowards. I feel really really bad for Joaquin.

  • @shruggzdastr8-facedclown
    @shruggzdastr8-facedclown 5 років тому +3

    This one is a prime example of the lesson that, depending upon one's perspective, one person's villain is another's hero.

  • @shaeker
    @shaeker 5 років тому +12

    Like Louis Riel in Canada. A villian to the anglo canadians. But a hero to the metis people.

  • @l.m652
    @l.m652 3 роки тому +1

    I’m here because of how someone was describing Murrieta. I remember one day at work on 5th of May our Supervisor asked the Mexicans In the group if we wanted to share some Mexican history, we said no. Him(white man) said I have a story. He spoke of Joaquin Murrieta, said he was a killer and a thief…. I wish I knew the history, I’m upset to this day for not knowing our history. Moral of the story, don’t let no one tell your story!

  • @trojanette8345
    @trojanette8345 5 років тому +6

    Very nicely done 👏 👏 👏 👏. Bravo, bravo, bravo. CA native here. Not too many people know (or care to study) the early history of California or the former Mexican territory. You and the behind the scenes team outdid yourselves on this one. Wonderfully researched. Thank you for a very accurate and impartial portrayal.

  • @Ghostykins
    @Ghostykins 5 років тому +12

    I learned a lot and really enjoyed this one... well, not the treatment of native people... but it was very interesting.

  • @letsroll2001
    @letsroll2001 5 років тому +3

    The transition from revenge to squarespace was hilarious. Thanks for doing these videos.

  • @MississippiPaco
    @MississippiPaco 3 роки тому +1

    It’s crazy how much Murrieta’s bearded portrait looks like Zac Efron

  • @PrezMaks
    @PrezMaks 5 років тому +20

    Is there ever going to be a video about August von mackensen

    • @danielcadwell9812
      @danielcadwell9812 5 років тому

      Too white too German. check out the great war channel they did a video about him.

  • @chuypascasio2980
    @chuypascasio2980 5 років тому +2

    Joaquin Murrieta lives on through us

  • @nerdpoleonbonaparte36
    @nerdpoleonbonaparte36 5 років тому +3

    I have to leave my mark before Biographics run out of subjects.
    Love your work.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 роки тому +1

    1:00 - Chapter 0 - Spanish occupied california
    2:30 - Chapter 1 - Early life
    4:55 - Chapter 2 - Problems in paradise
    8:50 - Mid roll ads
    11:05 - Chapter 3 - Shall we not revenge
    17:50 - Chapter 4 - Legacy

  • @donbrynelsen2157
    @donbrynelsen2157 5 років тому +8

    Please do one of these about Theodore Roosevelt's scandalous irrepressible daughter Alice.

    • @bw5020
      @bw5020 5 років тому +2

      I'm curious about this as well

  • @jonathancardona6193
    @jonathancardona6193 4 роки тому +2

    He was The Mexican Punisher don't call him a serial killer for killing criminals, rapists, and murderers.

  • @anonymousnativeamerican7755
    @anonymousnativeamerican7755 5 років тому +4

    He was a Chumash warrior.....little known fact

  • @m.j.vazquez4720
    @m.j.vazquez4720 5 років тому +4

    tiburcio vasquez or juan cortina would be fun vids

  • @sameddy2729
    @sameddy2729 5 років тому +8

    Sounds like the American man hasn't changed much over the years

    • @shawnsmith11
      @shawnsmith11 5 років тому

      Sam Eddy right because Mexicans don’t kill anyone

    • @mgm3649
      @mgm3649 5 років тому +1

      @@shawnsmith11 mehh, mostly they kill each other.

  • @matthewdrummond1340
    @matthewdrummond1340 5 років тому +2

    That Square Space plug was beyond awesome. Well played.

  • @olehsztul6177
    @olehsztul6177 5 років тому +9

    This was indeed interesting, the Irish have Ned Kelly (yes I know he was technically Australian but he had Irish heritage), the Ukrainians have Ustym Karmeliuk and the Mexicans have Joaquin Murrieta.

  • @romulusremus6806
    @romulusremus6806 4 роки тому +1

    I am Joaquin is an epic poem written by Rodolfo Gonzales. It is one of those books which inspire, but are kept from young minds.

  • @rubenraya3310
    @rubenraya3310 4 роки тому +3

    Love that video proud to a Mexican American 🇲🇽💯