Posted on 03/02/2021 11:27:47 AM PST by Altura Ct.
While Kruiser is away, Stephen Green and I will play, and the playground is the Morning Briefing. Green ably led the line yesterday. I’ll do my best today.
Today is March 2. Outside Texas this is just another day but in Texas it’s Texas Independence Day. On March 2, 1836, while the 189-odd Texians, Tejanos, and European rebels (and a bunch from Tennessee, however you choose to classify them) were under Santa Anna’s brutal siege at the Alamo, Sam Houston, Lorenzo de Zavala, and other Texas leaders were holed up at Washington-on-the-Brazos. They were hashing out what to do, as one of the largest armies in the Americas, under the command of the self-styled “Napoleon of the West,” would soon bear down on them. The name of the town they met in ought to strongly hint to us today what the Texas revolution was all about. It would, but the cancelers have gone after George Washington.
The kids and grandkids of the American Revolution and their Tejano allies were fighting for individual liberty and federalism; Santa Anna was a dictator who had abrogated the republican constitution, betrayed the federalists, and would soon prove to be as bloody-minded as any warlord in history. Signing a declaration of independence against him was no small choice. In 1836 Texas it got you marked for death. Zavala was an experienced rebel by 1836, since he supported Mexico’s independence from Spain before signing on for Texas’ independence from Mexico. He’d help write the Texas constitution and become the Republic of Texas’ first vice president.
As we hit the 185th anniversary of Texas Independence and the fall of the Alamo, then the rise of Texas, we have a problem. Some are revising the story to put slavery front and center, when it was not.
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Soros must be pumping tons of money into destroying the American culture.
Biden is inviting Mexicans to Texas so they can have the Alamo back.
Liberals will demand it be torn down since it’s a symbol of racism and stuff; will build a homeless park where it stood.
Sam Houston made a genius move to split his forces. Too bad the city that bears his name is fully californianized.
Can you imagine the reaction of the tiny majority of good people left in Texas to that?
They already tried once, back in the Clinton Administration, IIRC.
So yes, look for some idiot to try to cancel The Alamo.
Well, it’s been coming for a long time......we gave up San Jacinto Day for Martin Luther King Day...
Alamo visitors see Phil Collins collection for the first time in honor of Texas Independence Day
Yes, that Phil Collins.
Gov. Abbott just opened the state up 100% and no more MASK mandates.
Let freedom ring.
A perfect day to end the mask mandate and announce full opening of the state on March 10th.
The official leftist line on Texas Independence is that “it was all about slavery”.
Texas was not the only Mexican state to rebel from Mexico at that time.
Coahuila y Tejas, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Yucatán, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas. Several of these states formed their own governments: the Republic of the Rio Grande, the Republic of Yucatán, and the Republic of Texas.
Santa Anna overthrew them all till he got to Texas.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3938969/posts
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Ends Statewide Mask Mandate, Opens State 100%
“Some are revising the story to put slavery front and center, when it was not.”
Some Black history:
“President Guerrero abolished slavery in Mexico on February 14th, 1829.”
https://newstaco.com/2015/02/12/mexicos-black-president-abolished-slavery-before-u-s-civil-war/
Texas was then part of Mexico.
The gringos at the Alamo took a brutal licking.
Others got revenge:
“Antonio López de Santa Anna fell prisoner to the Texans on April 22, 1836.”
https://officialalamo.medium.com/the-capture-of-santa-anna-83454a5ffdc5
His captors forced Santa Anna to hand over Texas.
It only needs to be 85% canceled. Something like 15% of the Alamo defenders were Hispanic and hated Santa Ana as much as any of his other victims.
Does Phil have any American items in this collection or are they all mexican?
Beats me. I checked the website but they don’t appear to have a list of the items - just says “100’s” of artifacts so I imagine that should include Texan, American and Mexican.
The only item identified specifically was a mexican cannon.
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