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Alamo renovation gets stuck over arguments about slavery
Washington Post via MSN ^ | 08 May 2021 | Richard Webner

Posted on 05/08/2021 9:28:27 PM PDT by blueplum

SAN ANTONIO —The Alamo needs a makeover; on that, at least, everyone agrees. Plaster is flaking off the walls of the nearly 300-year-old former Spanish mission, the most revered battle site in Texas history...

...A $450 million plan to renovate the site has devolved into a five-year brawl over whether to focus narrowly on the 1836 battle or present a fuller view that delves into the site’s Indigenous history and the role of slavery in the Texas Revolution...

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: alamo; americanhistory; criticalracetheory; districtofcolumbia; georgepbush; mexico; richardwebner; sanantonio; texas; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: beancounter13

P ?


21 posted on 05/08/2021 11:05:32 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: blueplum

So what you are saying is that without the museum, this is probably only a $20-million renovation job...the majority of the $450 million is this museum?


22 posted on 05/08/2021 11:28:33 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: blueplum
But Texans are deeply divided over how, exactly, to remember the Alamo. "

Total BS! The writer is a ding bat.

More of the same written by Richard Webner:

San Antonio City Council votes 10-1 to approve new Alamo plan

Other things he writes:

Richard Webner (San Antonio Heron)

Richard Webner Free lance journalist(Austin, Texas)

23 posted on 05/08/2021 11:41:39 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: wardaddy; Pelham; stainlessbanner; rustbucket

My forebear fought the Texas revolution.
He he himself a fmr slave he also fought for the Confederacy marched in arms with the wise legion his brother also a fmr slave with the 45th Virginia an honored Confederate veteran his sisters husband herself also a fmr slave was a SGT with Chapman’s battery BLM enabling yankee jackasses can pound sand.

Btw his former owners not only freed him but gave him the best farm land for him and their family with some money too.
What did the Union army do? While he was away fighting they ganged raped his wife burned their home ransacked the food supply and she ended up committing suicide after the war.


24 posted on 05/08/2021 11:42:29 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

The author is a freelance writer, he wrote the BS article like this so he could sell it to MSN and the Washington ComPosat.

He wanted a paycheck.

The Left hates Texas and we will not put up with their crap here.


25 posted on 05/08/2021 11:48:13 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Bump


26 posted on 05/08/2021 11:50:25 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: StoneWall Brigade

The phrase in Dixie is ‘forgive often, forget never’.


27 posted on 05/09/2021 12:01:18 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox )
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To: Steve_Seattle

Mad scientist wanted to reanimate remains of Davey Crocket and James Bowie. Too late the government discovered his dastardly plan, but by then he had run up this huge bar tab.


28 posted on 05/09/2021 12:54:34 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: wardaddy

“stucco and Adobe need reskinning fairly often”

Racist!;D

They need Native American-ning fairly often is the proper phrase.


29 posted on 05/09/2021 1:03:45 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: blueplum
$450 million!!!???

Forget the Alamo!

30 posted on 05/09/2021 1:23:06 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: blueplum

How about leave it alone?


31 posted on 05/09/2021 3:55:40 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: blueplum

32 posted on 05/09/2021 4:03:51 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

Ahh yes, I’d forgotten about Duffy’s endless stories about being backs to the wall with Davy Crockett.


33 posted on 05/09/2021 4:21:26 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: blueplum

There’s a LOT that can be said of JFK, JFK’s father, MLK, and literally EVERY other Leftist hero, along with slavery (to this day), in the ‘old country’. Do they REALLY want to go there?


34 posted on 05/09/2021 4:23:33 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: ro_dreaming

“the most revered battle site in Texas history”

Yes, and it was the battle in 1836 that made it so, and not some wandering tribe of Indians who also moved all over that part of Texas.

Arlington Cemetery is on land once owned by Robert E Lee. Now should that hallowed ground be turned into a land fill because of it?


35 posted on 05/09/2021 4:28:45 AM PDT by odawg
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To: wardaddy

I have been saying this since the early 1990s.

Anybody with 2 functioning brain cells should have been able to see that it was never going to stop at demonizing the South and its leaders and its symbols. It was always going to move on to Washington, Jefferson, the Stars and Stripes, etc etc.


36 posted on 05/09/2021 5:03:18 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Steve_Seattle

Pretty much


37 posted on 05/09/2021 5:35:17 AM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Steve_Seattle
$450 million to renovate the Alamo? Isn’t it a building about the size of a single suburban lot?

Not when the Bushes finish with it. They plan to expand it by several blocks, tear down the memorial to those who fought little P's relatives, put in a bar and restaurant, and make it a first class tourist trap.

38 posted on 05/09/2021 5:43:41 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Steve_Seattle

Start with Slide 22 here

https://www.sanantonio.gov/Portals/0/Files/CCDO/180607_CAC_Meeting_FINAL.pdf

then scroll down. Watch the Centopath disappear. By slide 30, it’s a “premiere visitor experience”

The dotted area in 30 show where the restaurant and bar are going to be located.


39 posted on 05/09/2021 5:56:31 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: blueplum

Isaac Ryan’s name is on the back interior wall in the Alamo. I have a copy of his Baptism certificate and his parents’ wedding license. He is in my family history book. I guess you would call him a cousin.

He was on the north wall near canon, one of the first to be killed. Came from Louisiana to help defend the American patriots.

Isaac Ryan Private, Whites infantry 1805 Louisiana killed in Fought at Bexar, remained in
marksman battle Alamo as Bexar Guard[II7]


40 posted on 05/09/2021 6:01:24 AM PDT by NEBO (It is obvious we are friendly, other wise you wouldn't exist. E.T. From Somewhere Out There.)
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