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Remember This About The Alamo!

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Over the years the defenders of the Alamo have been touted as fighters for freedom and liberty for Texans. The recent release of the Alamo movie has prompted the most ridiculous tirade of bombastic misplaced hero worship seen in these parts in a long time. The Alamo defenders are portrayed as “freedom fighters,” when in…

Remember Fort Pillow, Forget the Alamo

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After Black soldiers were massacred at Fort Pillow by the eventual founder of the KKK, General Nathan Bedford Forest, there was a cry from black soldiers to “Remember Fort Pillow.” Unlike like the Battle of the Alamo, which is mostly fiction, the Fort Pillow Massacre which took place in Tennessee on April 12, 1864, was…

Tell the Truth about the Alamo

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Myths are not education, and are written to shore up those in power and subject the multitude to support whatever the established untruth is said to be. One of the biggest myths ever told has been the story of the Alamo. Those of us who were raised here had to listen to outright fabrications for…

Alamo Greed and Occupy Wall Street

Alamo, Civil RightsNovember 7, 2024205Views 0Likes 0Comments

The recent Occupy Wall Street Movement has reached the San Antonio area and beyond as tens of millions of people have demonstrated against the greed of millionaires that have push our country into an abyss. The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the Tea Party as a bunch of fake politicians that are being bankrolled…

The Untrue Alamo

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Be Careful Who You Claim as A Hero! Various state governments do not want us to know the truth about fictional heroes. Texas is trying to do just that by trying to outlaw Black History. Just because someone claims that some historical figure was a good guy does not make it so. This is the…

Hatred by Texas’ Founding Fathers

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In a book called “They Called Them Greasers,” by Dr. Arnoldo De Leon with the subtitle, “Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900,” a well documented work tells the story of how Mexicans and African Americans were treated in San Antonio and other Texas cities. It also tells the terrible history of the Texas Rangers…

Free Blacks in Texas were Mostly Ruined

Alamo, SlaveryNovember 7, 2024219Views 0Likes 0Comments

In the 1830, the Mexican government offered freedom, equality, and full rights to blacks that managed to escape the slaver army of Sam Houston. Many free blacks contributed their time and loyalty to Sam Houston only to be betrayed once Mexico was defeated. After Mexico was defeated free blacks were expelled from the state of…

Racist Lies: Yellow Rose of Texas was a Slave Song

Alamo, SlaveryNovember 7, 2024240Views 0Likes 0Comments

As a child I was told of the heroic action taken by the Alamo defenders and how they fought against a Mexican tyrant. It was later that I came to discount that idea, and that those “heroes” were actually unapologetic slave owners or pro-slavery men that came to San Antonio to institutionalize slavery on soil…

The Eastside of San Antonio has historically been an African American community. It has been this way in modern times as the result of the migration of ex-slaves moving on to land set-aside for a Baptist Settlement in the Victoria Commons area. The Baptist Settlement was destroyed by the housing authority, which built a white…

Black Mexican Soldiers Killed Most of Alamo Defenders

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We have been constantly told that General Santa Anna of Mexico was a real bad guy, but everywhere he went he liberated slaves from Anglo immigrants that came to Texas. In fact, Mexico had all black regiments in its army since colonial times. These black Mexicans soldiers played an important role against slavery in Texas.…