Posted on 01/18/2021 2:55:56 PM PST by DFG
This past week, Texas State Historical Association chief historian Walter Buenger made two controversial assertions regarding the Alamo in a story published by USA Today.
Although the battle has become a symbol of patriotism and freedom for many Texans and Americans, like the Confederate monuments erected after the Civil War, the myth of the Alamo has been used to “commemorate whiteness,” according to Walter L Buenger, Texas State Historical Association chair.
The battle itself was relatively insignificant tactically speaking, but it gained recognition decades later in the 1890s as backlash to African Americans gaining more political power and Mexican immigration increasing, Buenger said. In 1915, “Birth of a Nation” director D.W. Griffith produced “Martyrs of the Alamo,” which solidified the myth further by pitting white virtuous Texans against racist caricatures of Mexicans on screen.
“It became in some ways a sort of symbol of Anglo-Saxon preeminence,” he said. “The Alamo became this symbol of what it meant to be white.”
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Californians moving into Texas could care less about the Alamo and will gladly fund the non-profit especially in relation to Walter’s vision because they have disposable resources hand-over-fist along with the ideology.
Crazy. Bring back the asylums!
Blacks were hiding in the basement of the Alamo
This woke crap won’t play well in Texas
I’m tired of these jackasses...
They’re too dumb to realize a lot of those Mexican officers and Santa Ana were white. They were “criollo.”
I think that Walter just wants to project his own insignificance outwardly.
Whites are second class citizens in their own country.
I read somewhere that the Yellow Rose of Texas who, uh, distracted Santa Ana while Sam’s army moved in was Mexican.
It’s infected Texas Monthly magazine.
Next you’ll be telling us the Spanish are European.
Has any of these people lived in the countries that support these myths?
In his next book he will write: “The D-Day battle itself was relatively insignificant due to the well-on-its way development of the atomic bomb, but later became memorialized in Jim Crowe America by whites that went ashore in the segregated Army.”
Almost a month away from the historical anniversary.
The Siege of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836)
Tidbits:
I once had an office less than 50 paces from the Alamo.
The 1960s version of the movie was filmed 30 miles from where I grew up.
He was “White Hispanic”. Get it straight, dude!
I can’t believe that this cretin can get away with such blasphemy in Texas.
The Devil lies; Follow Jesus for the Truth.
Lies lead to Hell.
This jerk probably conveniently forgot that Mexicans were on a genocide train of their own against Indigenous tribes in their region.
Geronimo & the Apaches were a thorn in their side for decades.
He should resign immediately.
Yaller Rose was a tex/mex mulatto.
I just might have the audacity...lol.
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