Remember the ALAMO!!

[bucolic_frolic]

A family member calls me every year to remind. Obsessed with John Wayne and the 1960? film I think. Today is March 6, the day to remember the Alamo. Too bad.

[spike jones]

1. Another war that is widely celebrated, but is of questionable honor is the Alamo.

The accepted reason for it was to break away from Mexico, freedom for the Texans. What I have read is that after Mexico freed its slaves in 1830, the area that became Texas may have been able to keep them until 1836 when Mexico tried to enforce them to free their slaves also. That is when and why the Texans revolted. It was about freedom alright, but the freedom to keep slaves. Several Texans have told me they never knew that. It certainly is not taught in their schools. And nothing honorable about it.

[GreenWave]

2. Certainly your important input is ignored in this song.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. I remember that song, what a bunch of cooked up Texas Jingoism

The genius of America is you can take any position good or bad and if you market it well and push long enough you too can create your boomlet wave of enthusiasm and hype.

[Aristus]

4. Yep. I was born in San Antonio, and raised with the myth of the valiant, heroic defenders of freedom at the Alamo.

I was actually, literally an adult before I knew the truth about the whole thing. Not kidding around. And I'm a very well-read person. The revisionist legend of freedom-loving Americans has been so deeply ingrained in the Texan, and American, consciousness that one needs to do a deep dive into the unedited history of the Alamo to learn the truth about the slavery-loving proto-Confederates who died a much-deserved death at the Alamo.

[Deep State Witch]

3. The myth of Alamo gets the history all wrong

Instead of a heroic stance for freedom, Texans fought to be able to enslave people

The 1836 battle for the Alamo is remembered as a David vs. Goliath story. A band of badly outnumbered Texans fought against oppression by the Mexican dictator Santa Anna, holding off the siege long enough for Sam Houston to move the main rebel force east and providing them a rallying cry at the Battle of San Jacinto. As almost any Texan will tell you, their heroic sacrifice turned the Alamo into the cradle of Texas liberty.

Yet, the legend of the Alamo is a Texas tall tale run amok. The actual story is one of White American immigrants to Texas revolting in large part over Mexican attempts to end slavery. Far from heroically fighting for a noble cause, they fought to defend the most odious of practices. Our newfound understanding of this history presents Americans with a long-overlooked opportunity to correct a racist myth surrounding this monument.

Anglo settlers began arriving in Texas from the United States in the 1820s, when it was part of Spanish Mexico. The Spanish government wanted them as a bulwark against the Comanche, but these new Texans had another agenda. They wanted to take advantage of thousands of acres of land in the Brazos River Valley that was available cheap for White settlers, some of which was used to cultivate cotton.

When these dichotomous visions became clear in 1822, a newly independent Mexican government in Mexico City paused further settlement. The problem, according to Stephen F. Austin, known as the “Father of Texas,” was that the new government, which took power on a racial equality agenda, would not abide slavery.

The Mexican government’s efforts to write a new federal constitution got bogged down. One of the sticking points was the question of slavery. The new government wanted slavery gone, but ending the practice would ruin the settlers. Austin, “talked to each individual member of the junta of the necessity which existed in Texas … for the new colonists to bring their slaves.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/10/myth-alamo-gets-history-all-wrong/

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. My hero! Asa Watts: