Posted on 05/13/2010 6:39:52 AM PDT by laotzu
SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro was recently profiled in the New York Times, which referenced him as the next national Hispanic leader and perhaps president.
"It's been a very promising response," said Castro. "It's a very flattering article."
But comments he didn't make could draw some strong opinions. His mother, Rosie Castro, had strong words when asked about her memories of the Alamo, a symbol of Texas independence.
"They used to take us there when we were school children," Perez told the Times. "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 (that) we were losers. I can truly say that I hate that place and everything it stands for."
"I'm sure that a lot of people disagree with it," said Castro, when asked about his mother's comments. "I ... have a different perspective from what she does. I think that the struggles that the state of Texas went through at the Alamo and other places were necessary for the great state that we have today and all of us should be proud of it."
Today, tourists and locals walking around Alamo Plaza reacted to the comments.
"If what she did for further research proved to have validity, then I guess I'd side with her," said Parris Wedel, a tourist from Florida.
"I think it's a huge disgrace to people that live in San Antonio because it's part of their heritage, it's where they grew up," said Naomi Guerrero, who said she looked forward to her visit to the Alamo when she took Texas History in the 7th grade.
Castro said the attempt in the article was to show a generational difference.
"My mother's generation and generations before went through a particular experience that was painful at times," said Castro.
"I wouldn't want my mom making a comment like that, knowing that she would be disgracing me if I was the mayor," said Guerrero.
Rosie Castro was not available for an extended interview on Wednesday but said during the time period in which she was brought up, there was no real objective view of what happened.
Castro said said it's a non-issue to him and something he's addressed a long time ago.
Damn! I must have been asleep late last night. Not only was my post to you (#130) unintelligble, I adressed my correction to myself, not you! Here it is again:
Re my post 130 to you.
I re-read my post to you. What I meant to say was that your statement was accurrate, not hers!
I doubt you are an illegal Mexican..LOL!So you can buy all the beer you like you pay for it we don’t..
Yeah Mexico is such a wonderful place they all want to come here. she can go service some drug czar for all I care
Wasn’t that a great movie?
Send her back to her beloved, corrupt, stinking Mexico.
This was my 4th Great Grandad:
WILLIAMSON, HIRAM JAMES (1810–1836). Hiram James Williamson, Alamo defender, sergeant-major of the Alamo garrison, son of Hiram Williamson, Sr., was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1810. He emigrated to Texas and settled at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Williamson took part in the siege of Bexar. He later served the garrison at Bexar as sergeant-major, making him the highest ranking enlisted man in the Alamo. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio, who will be giving the keynote address tonight, is, according to some, the next Obama. But while Obama’s radicalism may have escaped the notice of the DNC in 2004, Castro’s views are bit more transparent.
Indeed, he, along with his twin, Joaquin, currently running for Congress, learned their politics on their mother’s knee and in the streets of San Antonio. Their mother, Rosie helped found a radical, anti-white, socialist Chicano party called La Raza Unida (literally “The Race United”) that sought to create a separate country—Aztlan—in the Southwest. ...------Julian Castro: A Radical Revealed breitbart.com ^ | 09-04-20012 | Charles C Johnson http:/www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Julian-Castro-A-Radical-Revealed
I owned that hat.....(along with 2 million other kids in the '50s)
I'd wear it with my Mattel Tommy Gun draped over my shoulder. My not be historical, but I bet Davy coulda used it at the Alamo.
I used to warn south bashers here that Texas path to indepence was always in the sights of the PC bunch
So don’t hoot too loud
I was under the impression that Santa Ana (or the Mexican gummint at the time) had invited the Anglos into Texas as safety for Mexico against the US. True?
LaRaza. The failure face racist invaders who are forever trying to take over Texas public education.
“She hates the Alamo and San Jacinto but she loves Goliad!”
I bet dollars to donuts that she is a big fan of the Battle of Medina as well!
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qfm01
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