Posted on 05/08/2005 4:08:21 AM PDT by txradioguy
Seems like it to me.
The excuse given for why the brutality of Santa Ana's forces was softend was because of the growing Hispanic population in the schools in Texas.
Sometimes telling the truth IS anti-American revisionism, but it's still the truth.
Yes, a major issue that led to the War for Texas Independence was slavery -- the Mexican government outlawed it, the American settlers (and some of the Americans living in Mexico were actually ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!) wanted it. Travis spent some time in jail for leading a group against Mexican authorities, protesting the anti-slavery laws. What the movie (haven't seen the Nick spot, so I can't speak to that) glossed over was that a major component of the Texicans' issue with the Mexican government was that government's (by then, the dictator Santa Ana's) decision to combine provinces and leave the Texas area without political representation; a similar issue to that which inspired the American Revolutionary War. So patriots are patriots, and some of the same ideals that led to America, led to Texas.
As far as Crockett goes, I thought the movie was a nice balance between the Pena diary and the early movies. When it comes to Crockett being a drifter, you gotta admit he DID roam a bit as a younger man, and his defeat in the election for congress (as well as his p-ssing off Jackson over the Indian removal issue) probably made him realize he would do well to find opportunity elsewhere. So we now have his famous, "You can go to hell, and I'll go to Texas," line (where DID these guys come up with such great one-liners without movies to provide them?).
Crockett's thoughts about going over the wall? A great bit of humanity. There are a LOT of people who would like to escape some unpleasant situation, but instead are everyday heroes who plunge ahead, and sometimes the reason is because someone who looks up to them is watching. Crockett voicing what a lot of people would be thinking brings him down off his pedestal a little, that's true, but in my mind it makes him much more real. And when you're trying to explain something like the Alamo to a bunch of 8th graders these days, real works a lot better than fairy tale.
I suppose you'd really have an issue with the movie if it went into how the American government was secretly providing Texican filibusters with guns and money to stir up trouble in the Texas area before the war started.
Yet another shameless revision of history...
I can understand your relunctance based on your previous experience.
Good luck... sounds like you will need it with teachers like that.
We were deleted in yesterdays post about "Florida: FL Law allows right to deadly force". In my last post to you about not allowing the lawyers and media dictate, etc. etc. I had asked you how we could possibly do that.
10,000 bloggers and Free Republic's would not come close to stopping the hemoraging from just this one TV show. Now we add the public "edjucashunal" institutions, as you had mentioned, and where are we?
well yeah they were EEEVVVIIIILLLL slave owners and the Mexicans were the good guys right? Historical revisonism makes me sick.
Gee, that would be why they were going to treat the Texans as 2nd class citizens in the Mexican "Empire"....
As usual, once these kids pick up a real history book, they will notice that quite a lot of the crap they have been told isn't remotely true....
Yeah!! :)"Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!"
I hope they realize it. My SIL (she's 23)was at the table at my parents house eating dinner when I was telling them about the Pilgrim "invaders" line in the history book...and her comment to me was "well...they WERE invaders".
I about dropped my fork.
More communist propaganda .. .. ..
Before long the Battle Of San Jacinto is going to be written as a "war crime" because Houston's forces attacked during Siesta Time.
They'll find some kind of Geneva Convention violation pertaining to it. (/sacrasm)
what did they invade?
invading implies they had a military outlook or goal. If any one group of the new colonists coming over DIDN'T have a military outlook, it was the Pilgrims....
BTW good to see you my FRiend.
:)
hey there...
how are things?
"what did they invade?"
Why North America of course. Home of the peaceful Indians...errr Native Americans.
Things are ok. Had a little rough patch but things are looking up. Promotion board in July.
Oh, yeah! That'd make a great Michael Moore Crockumentary!!
Well, I gotta go get some eBay auctions ready to rock n roll!See ya'll later on. :)
LOL
riiiiightt LOL
Any more of this and I'm building a Way Back Machine to go choke the sh*t outta the person who thought up Political Correctness.
what are you going for, your 7?
sorry to hear about the rough patch. I am glad to hear that things are looking up for you...
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