Alamo Deceptions: Mountains of Wild Frontier Lies

The song that Mexican buglers played just before they killed the slave owners inside the Alamo was called “El Deguello,” and was probably a Moorish song from Africa that was used to indicate that no white slave owners would be spared—no wonder they were so mad about this lose and could never get over it! There are others parts of the Alamo story that need more explanation. One involves racial propaganda about the bones entombed in a small marble casket in the downtown San Antonio San Fernando Cathedral are that of the Alamo defenders. On a marker at the entrance to the church, there are claims that the ashes of so-called Alamo heroes Jim Bowie, David Crockett, and William Travis are contained in this marble coffin on the left side to the entrance of the church. It is generally believed that the ashes at San Fernando Church are those of buried church members and not the Alamo defenders. The fabrications are many, and school children, adults, and tourists are treated to a full array of white supremacist propaganda!
There are so many falsehoods associated with the Battle of the Alamo that one should look upon most claims with great skepticism. And guess who made the pronouncement that these ashes were Alamo defender ashes? Why none other than pro-slavery promoter and boot licker Juan Seguin. Juan Seguin, the man that the town of Seguin is named after, was a notorious advocate of slavery and apparently a political buffoon. This explains why racist apologetic historians have tried to make a superman of him. The tourists and newcomers to San Antonio should be warned that what they are seeing and hearing is completely false and a bunch of racist lies. The Alamo is not worth visiting unless the whole story is told.
There is no telling whose ashes are in that tomb, but most historians believe that they are definitely not those of the Alamo defenders! Juan Seguin would have had a motive in inventing such a story. His motive seems to have been his desire to be accepted by the white settler elite that was solidifying their control of Texas. Seguin wanted to be seen as “white” and not Mexican. Sometimes racism is so bad that those who are the victims of it what to identify with the racists rather than with their oppressed ethnic group. Juan Seguin was attempting to “get in bed” with these racists.
In addition to being a slaver who sold slaves, James “slave neck” Bowie was also a confidence man (con artist, crook) who used phony land grants to sell property in Texas and other nearby states. Bowie was a criminal, slaver, and not a hero! Local civil rights veteran Carlos Richardson once put it well when he said, “One cannot hold the banner of freedom in one hand and whip of slavery in another and be called a hero.” Bowie fought hard to defend slavery, which has little to do with the mythical idea of “Texas Independence,” but a lot to do with the racist settler desires to create a slave territory in Texas. The Battle of the Alamo was not about “Texas Independence,” but about white settlers keeping their slaves and fulfilling the ideas of manifest destiny. Slaves were brought into Texas against a Mexican decree that abolished slavery in 1829, by Afro-Mexican president Vicente Guerrero.
What did “Texas Independence” mean for slavery? It meant independence to own slaves! It cannot be dismissed, that Bowie and many of the early Texas settlers wanted to escape the anti-slavery sentiment in Tennessee by going to the frontier (Texas). Abolitionists controlled many parts of Tennessee at the time and racist settlers would want to move out of Tennessee territory. In fact, there were many black abolitionist newspapers in Tennessee as well. Much of Texas history centers on the issue of slavery, not “freedom and independence.” One need only type in the name of Benjamin Lundy on a Google search and get the full story of the slave owner rebellion that has come to be crystallized in the false narratives about the Battle of the Alamo.
When General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was defeated he was forced to return all property to the Texas settlers, which at the time included escaped African American slaves that ran into Mexico. All of the deception and untold truths seem to be aimed at the tourist industry. The tourist industry fabricated tons of lies in the 1800s in order to create business opportunities. Another reason for inventing these falsehoods is the fact that racists were at work in the creation of hero status for the Alamo fighters. Hatred of Mexicans and other non-English people fueled the fabrications.
Davy “Indian killer” Crockett never fought to the death on top of an Alamo wall, but was executed after the battle. According to historians, Travis never drew a line in the dirt, and there were at least 17 survivors at the Alamo and hence 17 messengers of defeat. This contradicts the false Hollywood image of there being no “messengers of defeat.” There were plenty of messengers screaming the news that white racist settlers at the Alamo were killed. White racist revenge was the motive behind the slogan of “Remember the Alamo.” The propaganda has been so complete that some of us were once foolish enough to wear “coonskin hats” that are sold at the Alamo.
We all know how racists act when they loose a fight! “Remember the Alamo” mythmakers tried to compare the Battle of the Alamo with the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in Greece (made popular by the recent movie called “300”), but that is a real stretcher. Historians tell us that there was never a “horde” of Mexican soldiers in the tens of thousands, but only about 1,800 to 2,000 Mexicans involved in the actual attack against about 187 slavers and their supporters. Reportedly, Santa Anna lost about 550 men, which is within the military limits of the day for a siege using Napoleonic tactics.
Most of the Alamo history is perhaps one of the best comprehensive fabrications ever told with racist intent. These lies are part of a colonial matrix of racist myth creation that is designed to buttress a racial ideology and the culture of racist conquerors. The Alamo defenders were any and everything but heroes. As the truth becomes known the Battle of the Alamo will begin to diminish in history as a battle for freedom and finally be recognized as a war to establish slavery and create a white supremacist country.