Posted on 09/06/2012 5:29:19 AM PDT by NYer
How lovely.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The young Texas mayor whose keynote speech wowed the Democratic National Convention crowd Wednesday night draws political inspiration from his mother – who is a member of a radical civil rights movement and who reportedly thinks the truth behind the Battle of the Alamo is that Texans swiped Mexico’s land.
Maria del Rosario Castro, the mother of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, said in 2010 that she grew up being told the battle was “glorious,” only to learn the so-called heroes were really “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,” she told New York Times Magazine. “I can truly say that I hate that place and everything it stands for.”
The Alamo, then a sprawling mission for missionaries and American Indian converts, was attacked in February 1836 by Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Though historical accounts vary, Texans, including famous frontiersman Davy Crockett, fought back for 13 days only to surrender, on March 6.
Maria del Rosario Castro also was a member of the La Raza Unida, a radical movement that defended the civil rights of Mexican-Americans in Texas.
Spain (and then Mexico) took Texas from the Comanches.
If you’re looking to return it to someone, return it to them.
Hooray for your great great grandfather. I refuse to think of Jim Bowie and Davie Crockett anything but the heroes they are were!
My Houston relatives tell me Santa Ana was defeated because he was in a tent with one of his 14 year old female “friends!” And had no time to order his troops into battle.
A big shoutout to the Texicans!
Hooray for your great great grandfather. I refuse to think of Jim Bowie and Davie Crockett anything but the heroes they are (were)!
My Houston relatives tell me Santa Ana was defeated because he was in a tent with one of his 14 year old female “friends!” And had no time to order his troops into battle.
A big shoutout to the Texicans!
Hence our other state song, “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” The “yellow rose” was a “high yellow” free black woman whom Santa Ana had captured. She most likely wasn’t entertaining him on her initiative but from his orders. Still, she was enough of a distraction that the Battle of San Jacinto caught him with his pants on the ground, literally.
La Raza PING
Nineteenth century romantic “blood and soil” ideology at its finest.
I thought that came out in 1979.
The mother looks like Jabba da Hut.
Daguello was in fact the Mexican army’s signal that no mercy would be shown.
If I were a Mexican soldier & heard that played, I would be thinking “Caramba! We have just told the enemy they have nothing to lose by fighting to the last man. Like that’s going to make our job any easier! Muchas gracias para nada, senor general!!”
Heh Heh, I think playing “I’m Bad...I’m Nationwide” would have the same effect.
I must have missed some fine print here; but what does RUP stand for? (Will go back in look. . .but ‘reply’ might be needed!)
La Raza Unida? And the 'P'. ..Palestine?
[P. . .politica?] Oh well. . .
[P. . .politica?] Oh well. . .
La Raza Unida Party. Aka Partido La Raza Unida back in the day, don’t know why they anglicized Party.
That’s awesome. As my screensaver i have a pic of 13 survivors of the Battle of San Jacinto. Can’t remember what year it was taken but they’re all in their 80’s and looking very proud!
As for the Alamo, “surrendered,” my butt. Phffft. These men knew going into it that there would be “no quarter given.”
The tipping point with Santa Anna was when he crossed the line and tried to disarm the Texians. He had already abolished the 1824 Mexican Constitution. Up to that point, the Texians had tried to get along and live peaceably as mexican citizens, minding their own dang business. Then Santa Anna stupidly ordered the people of Goliad to give back the cannon.
I hope the current WH-occupying Marxists know their Texas history.
Thanks.....
“Maria del Rosario Castro, the mother of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro,”
I was watching the Castro Bros. and the DNC farse. I got one glance of them sitting together and it reminded me of photos of a circus sideshow and those bros looked like the conjoined twins Barnum & Bailey used to display. The rest of the crowd resembled a typical freak show.
Look at this photo!
The most famous pair of conjoined twins was Chang and Eng Bunker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_twins
Thanks for the mention and the link. ;^)
The premise that drives these comments by a woman that has obviously failed to grasp the fact that she herself is defending the general of an occupying nation, is an absolute farce.
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