Posted on 10/14/2017 12:33:12 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Texas and its most sacred and iconic historical sites — like the Alamo — are under constant attack by patronizing pseudo-intellectuals who only seem to care about history when it involves blind and uncritical acceptance of “alternative facts” about our state’s past.
Historians now “know” that the Lone Star State (along with the entire American Southwest) is built on land “stolen” from Mexico, that Jim Bowie was a staggering drunk and that Davy Crockett “may” have surrendered to the Mexican Army instead of being killed in action swinging “Old Betsy.”
For some, these “alternative facts” make the Alamo a symbol of racism and imperialism that should be “re-imagined,” at least according to the Texas Land Office.
That’s what the “Reimagining the Alamo” project directed and supervised by political neophyte and Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush is all about.
The site will no longer be known as the place where Texas fought for its freedom. As the Reimagine the Alamo “master plan” explains, the rationale for the Texas revolution is morally equivalent to historic Mexican oppression, and time should also be shared with Franciscan friars and Native Americans.
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Lots of links at the URL.
“When the “reimagining” is complete, it can be said without exaggeration that nothing of the famous battle or the 189 men who sacrificed their lives will be visible to visitors of the historic site. Texans who wish to honor the dead, and their stand for Texas independence, or young men wishing to see Jim Bowie’s knife and Col. Travis’s letter, will have to go across the street and into a basement where the real story of the Alamo is to be stuffed away like yesterday’s garbage.”
something’s not right
I guess that’s why they are called “leftists”
P doesn’t really want a political career it seems.
George P needs to be sent back to Florida where he can busy himself looking for the fountain of youth or whatever.
Leave history alone.
Bush began his quest to “make the Alamo Mexican again” by stealing nearly 30,000 historical Alamo artifacts from the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Yeah, I keep hearing the ad all the time on the radio. It’s part of his campaign, his political campaign to get re-elected. They’re using a guy with a really rough Texan-accented voice in an attempt to sound like the Real Thing. It’s so phony it’s sick. If I disliked Bush before I really dislike him now. Also it claims that the Alamo is surrounded by a “strip mall”. The hell it is! That is an outright lie.
DNA-damaged nitwits. Both loser families have questionable DNA.
LEFT atop the trash heap of true history
Makes my blood boil, and I don't even live in Texas.
It's still a party of our nation's heritage, my heritage.
> built on land “stolen” from Mexico... <
Well, if they are determined to go in that direction, why stop at Mexico? Mexico stole that land from the Spanish, who stole it from the Apaches and the Navajos, who stole it from...
You can keep going as long as the history books will allow.
“LEFT atop the trash heap of true history”
And, he is a Republican.
He’s got crazy, angry eyes.
And, he is a Republican.
Transparty
Best check under his skirt!
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