SF Chronicle: F*ck the Alamo, a racist symbol like the Confederate flag

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/12/DDG08635SU1.DTL

As the guy who wrote on the billboard at 24th and Valencia sometime in the night last week phrased it, before what he wrote in orange spray paint was papered over with a new canvas, "F -- 'The Alamo.' "

To many Mexican Americans, there's no more succinct, if impolite, wording to get across how repulsed one of the biggest minority groups in the country - - and certainly the largest in California and Texas -- is by that dilapidated mission-turned-fortress-turned-tourist-attraction in San Antonio, Texas. What's intriguing, though, given the release Friday of the big-budget movie "The Alamo," is how many people apparently don't get this.

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