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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Anybody else had it with these people?
Anybody?
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Dare him to say that to my face. My relative died there defending Texas from a dictator.
He sounds like Ward Churchill on a roll. You know the fake indian.
Santa Ana didn’t think it was “insignificant.” It set the table for San Jacinto much like Coral Sea set the table for Midway.
“Remember the Alamo!”
The cry also reminded Texans that the Mexicans gave no quarter, that their choices were now victory or death.
This realization tends to stiffen resolve.
One of the traits of Fascism is to change or distort history to favor your agenda and belief. The Democrats are the World Fascists of the year 2021
Pretty sure Santa Anna was also white.
I recall reading about how Walter Lord (author of the Titanic chronicle A Night to Remember) was a walking encyclopedia about the Alamo.
San Jacinto must also have been about whiteness. Cancel it!
Then again, what historical event wasn’t about whiteness? Cancel everything!
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Walter, here’s a clue. As a non profit in Texas that claims to want to cover Texas history, you would raise move funds by cutting off your crap about the Alamo. Most Texans think highly of the Alamo and your effort to minimize the Alamo is not very helpful to your organization.
Somebody needs to be replaced at the Texas State Historical Association.
The actions at the Alamo delayed the Mexican army long enough for Sam Houston to gather his army and mass those forces at San Jacinto and defeat Santa Ana in detail.
Also, it just wasn’t whites at the Alamo.
So, if say that idiot is wrong on two counts.
Mr. Buenger You Are An IDIOT!
I’ll take this.
Historian is on the board along with San Antonio administration including some of the most globally elite of the global elitist, town in which ge
Reg poppinmymouthoffagain spurs coach is perfectly welcome to pop his mouth off all day with hatred for patriots wants to turn texas blue with all these global elitists. Regardless of alamos significance. Oh. A week after
Trump speaks at Alamo, TX, border town, to highlight the new border wall flanked by Border Patrol, describing how the wall is incapable and just as he was closing all borders in a state of emergency and a day before texas news broadcast the okeefe filmed arrest of a vote fraudster being indicted by ken Paxton AG extrodinaire to face 20 years that is te
Twenty years in jail for voter fraud
They’re nervous
How about the men at the Alamo with spanish surnames?
“...pitting white virtuous Texans against racist caricatures of Mexicans on screen.”
Okay schmuck, now do San Jacinto.
People in this State understand what The Alamo was and is, it isn’t and never has been a rallying cry for “whiteness” whatever the hell that is.
Oiy, these people need to be horse whipped.
Ken Wise is a conservative Republican justice on the 14th Court of Appeals in Houston, and his re-election was one of the few bright spots in Houston local elections in 2020.
Is this one of those agencies "Pee" is charge of?
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