Julián Castro’s mother under fire from Fox for allegedly bashing the Alamo

After more than a century the Battle of the Alamo still raging, but instead of Mexicans and Texan settlers this time it’s Fox News and the Democrat’s new Latino star, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro.

A Fox News web site article draws ties between Castro and his mother, “a member of the La Raza Unida, a radical movement that defended the civil rights of Mexican-Americans in Texas” who apparently hates the Alamo.

The article cites a 2010 New York Times Magazine interview with Castro and his mother, who Castro said is his inspiration.

In the article San Antonio native Rosie Castro bashed the Alamo, a longstanding symbol of American courage to many Texans and a tourist hotspot.

“They used to take us there when we were schoolchildren,” Rosie Castro told The New York Times Magazine. “They told us how glorious that battle was. When I grew up I learned that the ‘heroes’ of the Alamo were a bunch of drunks and crooks and slaveholding imperialists who conquered land that didn’t belong to them. But as a little girl I got the message — we were losers. I can truly say that I hate that place and everything it stands for.”

In a tweet Washington Post’s The Fix reporter Chris Cillizza quoted Julián Castro as saying, “We grew up in a political household but we did not like it.”

I meant to flag you to Post #40.

Many thanks. I sincerely love The Alamo story.

If you ever visit the Alamo look at the names of the beseiged. A meaningful portion of them were of the Mexican persuasion.

It seems you didn't need to be a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant to undersand that the Generalissimo was FAR worse than a waste of air.

These 'Reconquista' movements like La Raza (Unida), Aztlan and Mecha, all have a common fallacy, they desire a utopia that never existed. The Spanish Empire in North America conquered by sword and cross and left a hildago culture that did its best to ignore any native rights. The pure Spanish nobility was at the top and the natives were right at the bottom.

In the 1st of 7 armed and significant Mexican Revolutions, [1] the War for Mexican Independence [1810-21] from Spain basically replaced the Spanish directed rule with Mexican-born Spanish rulers.
[2] Then came the 'middle class' revolt [1822/3] against the Emperor Agustín de Iturbide.
[3] Then came the unsuccessful military revolt of the Revolution of Tulancingo [1827/8].
Then after the Texas Separation [1835/6] & US Invasion [1846-8] in defense of Texas Annexation, came [4] The Revolution of Ayutla [1854/5] against Dictator Santa Anna, which led to the War of the Reform [1858-61] which gave Mexico its first non-hidalgo leader, Benito Juárez (Zapotec).
The internal Mexican division from the War of the Reform open the door for the [5] French Invasion of Mexico [1861-7] giving us "Cinco de Mayo" that was as much a civil war as an invasion.
[6] Next came the Porfirio Díaz-led revolt against the successors to Benito Juarez that ended with Diaz being elected President but then ruling as an effective Caudillo strongman for 35 years. (Díaz was at least half 'Native Mexican'.)
[7] Next and finally comes the Mexican Revolution of 1910 [1910-20] that overthrew Porfirio Díaz and produced Mexico's modern government structure and the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) which ruled Mexico as a single-party state for almost 80 years.

Thus we see that even in their ancestral Mexico, their countrymen have had little affection for anything other than rule by conquest and maintained at the point of the sword. For these activists to decry what the United States took by war and treaty is to ignore history. If they want to take power by honest campaign and vote, that is one thing but since they know that is totally unlikely, they cry havoc against history.

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