Racist Lies: Yellow Rose of Texas was a Slave Song

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 that did not belong to them. As a resident of San Antonio, I have also been the victim of another bogus story—that of Emily West (Morgan) and the Yellow Rose of Texas. Originally, the Yellow Rose of Texas was a slave song adopted by southern racists and later falsely attached to Emily West (falsely named Emily Morgan to attach her to a pro-slavery man by the same last name). Emily West was a black woman and black women were given the stereotype of being sexually promiscuous and seducers. This all fits into the theatre of racial fiction. The Emily Morgan story was used to reinforce the idea of the “animal instincts of blacks” and the “heathen instincts of Mexicans.” The supposed Santa Anna sexual rendezvous with Emily “Morgan” was designed as pure racial fiction, which viewed Mexicans as “mixed-race heathens” infused with extreme love of the natural world. The stereotypical black female, drawn from the canvas of slavery, as a creature of “extreme sexual desire,” would meet the “natural sensual lust of the Mexican,” so to paint a racist picture of both Mexicans and blacks. The Emily “Morgan” story never happened! Utter baloney! The Yellow Rose of Texas is a racist myth, and was but another twist upon the idea that non-whites cannot effectively govern themselves. The Emily Morgan story as told by idiots never happened! This is no “Toy Story,” but a Fake Story! One of the main aspects of white supremacy is the calculated creation of racist fiction. It is a force used to devise and create invented historical genuineness, and hammer into others, from birth to death, to accept as confirmed reality, an embroidered web of lies that displays history as if it began with them, allowing for a fabricated historical narrative of white supremacy, totally out of sync with the historical accounts. Lies that are sometimes hundreds of years old, but repeated by teachers and people that don’t know any better are condensed into half-truths, omissions, lies, distortions, and erasures. These lies are spread to the population through tour guides, educational institutions, and repeated by people telling lies in front of the Alamo. It is status quo baloney of sugar-coated myth of racist proportions. The Emily West story as told by outright racists and the ignorant is false. Simple logic dictates that a supposed slave woman, or a free one for that matter, would not want to help Anglo slavers that came to construct a slave empire in Texas. Another lie out there is that blacks fought freely for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. It is entirely illogical and foolish to believe that slaves would have been trusted with any weapons since every southern state had some type of law severely punishing any black in possession of a weapon. Why then were a small number of pictures manufactured of blacks in confederate uniform brandishing weapons? Those weapons were unloaded! No African American ever enthusiastically fought for the slave owners! It has been confirmed by credible historic evidence that blacks were sometimes forced to put on Confederate uniforms under gun point, dig ditches or cook food, or they would be killed or tortured, family members murdered, or returned to harsher plantation life, but never would they be allowed to carry a gun! In some instances, blacks were forced into taking pictures, so that southern racists could claim that blacks supposedly were “happy” being slaves and servants to a “superior race.” The Emily Morgan myth is but another invented reality used to construct racial fiction. It has been my experience to take note of the fact that it is an old and much-used device of white supremacy, to decorate deceitful inventions of racial superiority with a veil of sanitized historical holiness through hero worship and through stabbing, belittling racist narratives, in order to give the appearance of truth to what is nothing less than historical smoke and mirrors. This method of systematic deception is at the crux of much of the existing literature, and still manages to find acceptance in our educational system. There is a host of pre-meditated out right lies that assemble a false history designed to bury the dignity of non-whites. When history is taught in this way, millions are infected. The infection spreads from generation to generation, and on one level plays psycho-ideological havoc on the unconsciousness mind to develop, day after day, narratives that pander to overt and subtle racial thought that is just below the surface. Racial myth even has tourist value. In San Antonio, this has even taken the form of naming a hotel after “Emily Morgan.” Racial myth remains an almost permanent structure of thought that is transmitted from one generation to the next, hibernating, and embedded in the minds of millions, and hidden in bedtime stories that are highly infectious. Mexico sinned in the eyes of most white settlers of that day by abolishing slavery in 1829, and to substantiate the racist view an incident was to be manufactured to prove it; the false story that Emily West (Morgan) had an affair with General Santa Anna. Historians say this story was invented by black faced minstrels many years after the Alamo. Next time you hear about the “Yellow Rose of Texas,” and how she kept General Santa Anna sexually occupied during a military campaign just simply say, RACIST LIE! The next time some Democrats start signing this song at some rally educate them that they are signing a slave song that was stolen by white supremacists to support a fake story!