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Nickelodeon tells kids: Alamo fought for slavery (REWRITING HISTORY BARF ALERT!!!)
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 08 May 2005 | Staff Writer

Posted on 05/08/2005 4:08:21 AM PDT by txradioguy

Children's TV show says Texans died to preserve human bondage

Posted: May 8, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Most Americans believe the 189 Texans who died at the Alamo in 1836 were fighting for independence and liberty, but Nickelodeon, the award winning television network for children, is telling kids that Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and all the rest were actually fighting to defend slavery.

In a short "Nick News Bump," currently being broadcast, the kids network features the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, site of the battle between a small group of Texans and a large Mexican army under Gen. Santa Ana, "the Napoleon of the West," as he described himself. The Texans, who had taken refuge in the mission known as the Alamo, were killed in fighting that followed a 13-day seige, and their bodies were burned. Mexican losses are estimated to have been around 1,600.

The heroic resistance and loss of life made the Alamo the "cradle of Texas liberty" to most Americans, but that's not the story Nickelodeon tells.

A teenage Hispanic girl provides the voice over as she walks in front of the Alamo:

My name is Salviola. I'm from San Antonio, Texas, and the Alamo is in my backyard.

In 1718, the mission of San Antonio de la Valero was established. The church structure is still standing today and it is known as the Alamo.

The battle for the Alamo is often remembered as a rebellion of a small group of brave Texas farmers fighting against the Mexican army. What you may not know is that at the time, Texas was part of Mexico.

By the early 1800s, a lot of people living in San Antonio were farmers who brought their slaves with them. In 1829, Mexico abolished slavery and what followed was years of conflict between farmers who wanted to keep their slaves and Mexican authorities. This conflict led up to the battle for the Alamo.

In the end, Gen. Santa Ana and 5,000 Mexican soldiers surrounded the Alamo and all the defenders of the mission were killed.

So, when you remember the Alamo, think about the soldiers, the battle and the true story behind it.

Nickelodeon is not the first to revise the history of the Alamo.

Last year, Disney released "The Alamo" at a cost of $100 million – a film criticized for its political correctness, as WorldNetDaily reported.

"The movie reads more like a Disney fairy tale and promotes a politically correct revisionist agenda aimed at destroying a traditional American hero," said B. Forrest Clayton of Freedom Alliance, who reviewed the script.

Despite several historical witnesses who told of Davy Crockett being killed fighting, in the thick of combat during the battle, Clayton noted that Disney portrayed Crockett as a "frightened wanderer" who wanted to escape "over the wall" in the dark of night during the historic struggle.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: alamo; cary; education; history; liberals; nickelodeon; schools; television; texas
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WTF??? First they "adjust" the Texas History books to make Santa Ana and the Mexican Army seem more sympathetic and now THIS???

No wonder so many people are home schooling these days.

1 posted on 05/08/2005 4:08:22 AM PDT by txradioguy
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To: Arrowhead1952; MeekOneGOP; LUV W

*PING*


2 posted on 05/08/2005 4:09:11 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: txradioguy

Simply more anti American revisionism.
The Americans can do no reight for any reason.
What doees John Kerry and company run nick?


3 posted on 05/08/2005 4:11:15 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: Lil'freeper

Ping


4 posted on 05/08/2005 4:12:38 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." Pope JPII)
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To: txradioguy
Here's another one. My son comes home from school Friday and says one of his teachers told the class that Germany decided to surrender after we dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan.

And he also told the class that without the atomic bombs we would have never won the war.

5 posted on 05/08/2005 4:14:22 AM PDT by Rebelbase (The Republican Party is the France of politics--Lazamataz)
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To: big'ol_freeper

sickening

ping!


6 posted on 05/08/2005 4:15:37 AM PDT by Casaubon (Internet Research Ninja Masta)
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To: Rebelbase

Like I said. The more I read this stuff the more I see why people are choosing to educate their kids at home.


7 posted on 05/08/2005 4:18:16 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: txradioguy

Nickelodeon is owned by Viacom, who also owns See BS,


8 posted on 05/08/2005 4:20:25 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (I live in Minnesota, I run a business in Minnesota, but I remain a TEXAN!)
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To: Rebelbase

Just wondering if you called the teacher up to verify.


9 posted on 05/08/2005 4:20:29 AM PDT by Tungenchek
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To: Rebelbase

Is your son's teacher a coach who has been assinged to teaching history or someone who actually has a degree in history.


10 posted on 05/08/2005 4:23:22 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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To: Rebelbase

For a short time I was a board member at my kids Charter School..we were reviewing potential history books for the 8th grade level that was spinning up the next year and one section in there actually said that the Pilgrim s "invaded" North America.

I was the only person on the board that seemed to have a problem with it.


11 posted on 05/08/2005 4:25:42 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: txradioguy
Shame on Nickelodeon!


Erastus "Deaf" Smith
(1787-1837)

James Bowie
(1796-1836)


Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
(1794-1876)

12 posted on 05/08/2005 4:28:49 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Tungenchek
"Just wondering if you called the teacher up to verify. "

No, I'm already on the sh_t list among that group of 7th grade teachers for chastising one of them for bringing the homo agenda book "The Misfits" into the classroom. I told her that she was mislead and had a lapse in judgment. They don't like hearing that kind of criticism.

The week before last this same teacher tried to justify communism as "good" because the people in China "take pride in their work". When my son challenged him on that issue he dodged it with rhetoric.
13 posted on 05/08/2005 4:29:54 AM PDT by Rebelbase (The Republican Party is the France of politics--Lazamataz)
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To: yall

Surrender of Santa Anna, by William H. Huddle


William Barret Travis
(1809-1836)


The San Jacinto Battleground
[Modified using a template from Hardin, Stephen L. Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution. U. Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1994]


"Judge Roy Bean, the `Law West of the Pecos,' holding court at the old town of Langtry, Texas in 1900, trying a horse thief. This building was courthouse and saloon. No other peace officers in the locality at that time."

14 posted on 05/08/2005 4:30:24 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Nope, he's the math teacher. (same difference)


15 posted on 05/08/2005 4:30:34 AM PDT by Rebelbase (The Republican Party is the France of politics--Lazamataz)
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To: MeekOneGOP

I guess since the Texans at the Alamo were all dirty eeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvil Slave Owners...then what Santa Ana did to the forces at Goliad is suddenly justified huh?


16 posted on 05/08/2005 4:30:51 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: txradioguy
They want it back?

"Come and take it!!"


17 posted on 05/08/2005 4:32:59 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: MeekOneGOP

HOOAH!!!


18 posted on 05/08/2005 4:34:01 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng Bn ...K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: txradioguy

" the Pilgrim s "invaded" North America."

Pilgrim warriors. That is a new concept for me.


19 posted on 05/08/2005 4:36:09 AM PDT by Rebelbase (The Republican Party is the France of politics--Lazamataz)
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