Posted on 05/09/2005 10:23:55 AM PDT by thebaron512
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.
Disney also portrayed Gen. Sam Houston as a "venereal-diseased drunkard" and Col. William Barret Travis, commander of Texan forces at the Alamo, as a "deadbeat dad and serial adulterer."
In addition, charged the Feedom Alliance, Col. James Bowie, the Alamo defender famous for his knife-fighting skills, was portrayed as a land-swindling slave trader.
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You think that's bad. I've heard lefty whackos claim that the Founding Fathers only wanted independence because the King was about to outlaw slavery in the colonies.
I live in Tennessee - but I'm a native Texan. Guess it's time to block Nick on the TV at home.
PING!
Col. William Barret Travis, commander of Texan forces at the Alamo, as a "deadbeat dad and serial adulterer."
Uh, he was he left his pregnant wife in South Carolina or something.
What idiots. Didn't these people learn at their mother's knee that lying is not good?
I suspect that this is the Mexican perspective, as taught in their schools. Can someone confirm this?
Regardless, this seems to be a gross twisting of an historical event. These men where heros who gave their lives fighting against an imperial military power.
sorry, use to post on Madville which had a system which restricted reposts of same URL and admins to check posts before publishing.
If these Texan defenders were butt-cowboys instead of just plain cowboys, they would have been hailed as heroes.
Thanks, bump! :)
What a bunch of tripe!
Sounds like the Japanese history books that gloss over Japan's actions in WW2 but hammer away at the US for dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I know that most countries try to paint themselves in the best possible light, but such blatant actions are just stupid.
Told often enough, a lie becomes the truth. Nickelodeon and the rest of the PC revisionist crowd know this all too well.
WingNutDaily published a "review" of "The Alamo" by professional idiot Joseph Farah, who DIDN'T ACTUALLY SEE THE MOVIE.
"The Alamo" was a perfectly good movie and not particularly politically correct. Many of the criticisms turned out to be false. I'd say that basically universally everyone I know that saw it and FR posters that actually saw it, liked it.
My daughter is only four, but this is just another reason why I'm glad we got rid of cable last year. Just the basic (boring) channels at our house.
If my memory serves correctly, wasn't one of the survivors of the Alamo a slave? Jim Johnson????
The tortured story telling abilities of people who rewrite history amazes me.
I don't know about that. But I do know that some of the defenders of the Alamo were Tejano.
Agree with you. The Alamo was a good movie and much of the crap that was written about it here and abroad was just that...crap.
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