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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Texas will be blue very soon.
It should be noted that if you are a true Hispanic, then you’re white.
Hispanics can trace their ancestry to Europe and the Iberian Peninsula.
Indigenous peoples of Mezo & South America are not Hispanic. Ignorant gringos get this wrong all the time.
Well I reckon the leftists will be tearing it down soon...
Oh yeah. It is amazing the garbage that flows from so many idiots these days. What he heck is their hangup with "white supremacy?" Good grief!
About 35 of the 200 defenders of the Alamo had Hispanic surnames. Many were longtime residents of Texas who united with the newcomers from the US to defend their freedoms.
The other side has to continuously sow hatred between ethnic groups, lest all groups realize that freedom benefits everyone.
Blacks were hiding in the basement of the Alamo
Bet most were slaves. Why should the side with those that owned them like horses or mules.
I was using the “George Zimmerman” media argument. Should have put a sarcasm tag.
Again ignoring the fact that when Santa Anna seized power many of the states in Mexico declared themselves Independent Nations.
Coahuila y Tejas, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Yucatán, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas.
Santa Anna overthrew each of these independent states, then marched on Coahuila y Texas where he was defeated.
On his way back to Mexico, he had the walls of the Alamo fortress blown up so only the chapel remained.
Some of the Alamo defenders killed there were Hispanic in origin.
This guy isn’t a historian, he’s a propagandist who denies and falsifies history to advance a racist political agenda. He’s the academy’s equivalent of a snake oil salesman.
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Nueva España (New Spain), on 21 February 1794.
He was from a respected Spanish family. He was named for his father, Licenciado Antonio López de Santa Anna (b. 1761), a university graduate and a lawyer; his mother was Manuela Pérez de Lebrón (d. 1814).
The family belonged to the racially elite criollo group of American-born Spaniards,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_L%C3%B3pez_de_Santa_Anna
Santa Anna’s army was composed of many Mayan Indians he forced into his army. Not all, but enough.
Somebody finally gets it
Mexico banned slavery in 1829, yet in 1880 you could still buy Indian slaves from the US taken by slave raiders from Mexico.
He means “white-white, so no Italians, no Polish, just people from Ireland, England, and Scotland. But only certain parts of Scotland and Ireland. Just full blooded whites.”
Maybe he feels the same way about Goliad.
Walter Whall moved the 40-year-old Live Oak to the Alamo in 1912,
proving you CAN move large trees and transplant them successfully.
The pecan tree at the Alamo is the oldest tree on the property,
according to Alamo horticulturist Mark Nauschutz. It was planted
in 1850 by explorer, rancher and entrepreneur Peter Gallagher who
owned the property where the Alamo gift shop now stands.
https://sanantonioreport.org/heritage-tree-live-oak-at-the-alamo/?>
What?!?
#$&@#!!!
If pictures of the modern Mexican Congress are any indication, not much has changed regarding Mexico’s racial hierarchy in the last 185 years.
“Pretty sure Santa Anna was also white.”
Just another “White Hispanic”.
Like most of the citizens of Spain...
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