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.”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
The Alamo story and the war between the Mexico and the rebel Texans is so filled with myth that any attempt to tell the story will almost always end with…