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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He’s in the wrong job.
Wally Bunghead ignores the fact that it was both Texians AND Tejanos fighting against the dictatorship of Santa Anna. Perhaps Wally thinks Texas should still be part of Mexico.
Whatta ‘bout Wales?
Nazi Germans?
Swiss?
White Russians?
Norsk?
Icelanders?
There is a monument at San Jacinto to commemorate the victory and it’s white! Representing whiteness. (Well, maybe more of a light gray.)
Immediately 😡
My great-great-grandfather, Capt John Pyle would disagree. He served under Sam Houston in the Republic of Texas Army and received a 4000 acre land grant for his service. I have totally had it with revisionists. This has to stop.
STFU with that stupid Dim talking point. 🙄
Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836), a native of Yucatan, was the first Vice President of the Republic of Texas. His granddaughter played a major role in saving the Alamo.
(Well, maybe more of a light gray.)
You mean there was a... ah, you know, in the wood pile way back then?
Bet he's a carpetbagger.
Everyone!
“Pretty sure Santa Anna was also white.”
From Wikipedia:
The family belonged to the racially elite criollo group of American-born Spaniards, although the family was not wealthy but rather middle-class.
Criollo are still running Mexico. From what I heard, Mexico is definitely very racially stratified.
Peninsulares and criollo on top.
Mestizos below, then Indians and the Black are far down on the bottom.
The only White supremacists in US are the Criollo from South America. But they gladly pass as hispanics to get the preferential treatment.
I hate them with a white hot passion.
I think some 40% of the Alamo defenders were Hispanic.
Both the Comanches and the Apaches hated Mexicans more than they hated Americans.
“Indigenous peoples of Mezo & South America are not Hispanic. Ignorant gringos get this wrong all the time.”
In the 16th century they weren’t. But they are now. Hispanic is not a racial term: it is a linguistic group (i.e., Spanish-speaking peoples).
They really are trying to start
something. Ozzy was banned from
San Antonio after pi**ing on the
Alamo. Didn’t this guy just do
the same thing?
Texas is very proud of their
heritage.
Santa Anna was pure Spanish blood and an egomaniac who destabilized Mexico for fun and profit. Here is some interesting factoids about Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna:
Santa Anna’s prosthetic leg was captured as a battlefield trophy.
During the 1847 Battle of Cerro Gordo in the Mexican-American War, the 4th Illinois Infantry surprised Santa Anna, who fled without something quite important—his prosthetic cork and wooden leg. The Illinois soldiers seized the leg as a trophy piece that they brought back to their home state, where it toured at country fairs before falling into the possession of the Illinois State Military Museum. The Mexican government’s repeated requests to repatriate Santa Anna’s fake limb have been denied.
America "punked" him in 1853 and exiled to Staten Island.
Like his idol Napoleon, Santa Anna found himself exiled on several occasions after being deposed from power. His banishment following his last stint as dictator brought the former Mexican leader to an unlikely location—the future New York City borough of Staten Island. After Santa Anna met with U.S. Secretary of State William Seward on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas in 1866, con men convinced him that the United States—the country against which he had fought during the Mexican-American War—would back his attempt to return to power in Mexico and depose Emperor Maximilian, the ruler hand-picked by Napoleon’s nephew, French Emperor Napoleon III. When Santa Anna arrived in New York City in May 1866, however, he learned that he had been duped. After spending years on Staten Island, Santa Anna returned to Mexico shortly before his death in 1876
Check out the number of Mexicans that fought and died at the Alamo defending Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alamo_defenders
Of the 256 known Combatants, these are the Latino’s that defended the Alamo for Texas!
José María Arocha
Simon Arreola
Juan A. Badillo
Andrew Barcena
Anselmo Bergara
John Blair
Robert Campbell
William R. Carey
Cesario Carmona
Robert Crossman
Antonio Cruz y Arocha
William Dearduff
Alexandro De la Garza
Conrad Eigenauer
Lucio Enriques
Carlos Espalier
José Gregorio Esparza
Manuel N. Flores
Salvador Flores
Antonio Fuentes
Galba Fuqua
Ignacio Gurrea
Brigido Guerrero
Pedro Herrera
Damacio Jiménez
Toribio Losoya
George Washington Main
Antonio Menchaca
Andrés Nava
Jose Sebastian “Luciano” Pacheco
Eduardo Ramirez
Ambrosio Rodriguez
Guadalupe Rodriquez
Juan Seguín
Vicente Zepeda
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