State museum canceled book event examining slavery's role in Battle of the Alamo after Texas GOP lea

[turbinetree]

Source: Texas Tribune

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick confirmed on Twitter that he called for the event to be canceled. Abbott, Patrick and other GOP leaders are board members of the State Preservation Board, which oversees the Bullock museum.

BY ABBY LIVINGSTON AND ISABELLA ZOU JULY 2, 2021 2 HOURS AGO

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A promotional event for a book examining the role slavery played leading up to the Battle of the Alamo that was scheduled at the Bullock Texas State History Museum on Thursday evening was abruptly canceled three and a half hours before it was scheduled to begin.

Authors of the book, titled “Forget the Alamo,” and the publisher, Penguin Random House, say the cancellation of the event, which had 300 RSVPs, amounts to censorship from Republican elected leaders and an overreaction to the book’s examination of racism in Texas history.

“The Bullock was receiving increased pressure on social media about hosting the event, as well as to the museum’s board of directors (Gov Abbott being one of them) and decided to pull out as a co-host all together,” Penguin Random House said in a statement.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/01/texas-forget-the-alamo-book-event-canceled/

They should have gone forward with the event...

[Initech]

1. What a piece of shit!

[cbabe]

2. Reminds me when the DAR cancelled

Marion Anderson's concert at Constitution Hall in 1939. Because race, of course.

Eleanor Roosevelt intervened and rescheduled Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial.

Hopefully someone will do the same today.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. It's not Cancel Culture when Republicans do it. It's (Klown) Kancel Kultur. (nt)

[struggle4progress]

4. The Alamo: Confederate Monument

... In Mexico .. the Wars of Independence (1808-1824) led to the almost complete eradication of slavery in the zones where it most mattered, the Mexican Bajio, the economic engine of the late Spanish viceroyalty ...

... In 1835, Mexico passed a centralizing constitution abolishing slavery in every state in the Union, including Coahuila, and sent an army led by Santa Ana to dismantle the Texas Cotton Kingdom ...

Until 1845, Texas was a pariah state, shunned by the British, the French and the USA ... The public infrastructure to secure plantation slavery was financed after 1845 with federal dollars ... The only thing Texas did well as an independent republic was to draft the constitution of 1841. It made it illegal for any manumitted Black to remain physically in the state, let alone aspire to citizenship ...

... The Alamo memorializes the first battle of the American Civil War, full twenty-five years before the battle of Fort Sumter. It is the first Confederate monument to slavery.

https://arcade.stanford.edu/blogs/alamo-first-and-last-confederate-monument

[struggle4progress]

5. Remember what it really represents

by Ruben Cordova
March 5, 2020

... Steven F. Austin, the most important impresario (land agent), chose the finest land in what is now Southeastern Texas and modeled his settlements on Southern slave states. He incentivized slavery by making additional land available for each enslaved person that was brought into Texas. Mexico provided little oversight, though tensions soon developed over the issue of slavery. Mexico imposed several measures to end or limit slavery, and the Anglo-American colonists skillfully found ways to amend, delay, or defy them ...

The conjunction of slavery interests in the U.S., or “slavocracy,” which included the brilliant and devious President Andrew Jackson, agitated incessantly – though sometimes surreptitiously – for the spread of slavery. Slavery interests openly – though often unofficially, to avoid violating treaties that could bring European intervention – supported the “independence” of Texas. The slavocracy funded and equipped an invading army, hoping to ultimately create one or more slave states out of Mexican territory. The men who fought against Mexico were promised free land. Most of the combatants were relatively recent arrivals, as were most of the delegates to the convention where independence was declared ...

All of the combatants inside the Alamo during the 1836 battle knew that they were fighting for the institution of slavery, as surely as they knew they were fighting for Mexican land. James Bowie, a slave trader and smuggler who William C. Davis says was “easily the largest land swindler of his era,” had arrived in Texas in 1830 with 109 enslaved people ...

Benjamin F. Lundy, a Quaker abolitionist who hoped to establish a colony of free Blacks, warned in 1836 that a Texan victory would lead to annexation and succession, because the slave states would “confederate a new and distinct slaveholding republic, in opposition to the whole free republic of the North.” He prophesied a sanguinary toll: “blood will flow in torrents,” drenching the land in “crimson gore.” The 1845 annexation of Texas sparked the Mexican-American War, engineered by President James K. Polk, who was Jackson’s protégé. It resulted in the seizure of half of Mexico. The manner of the Texas annexation (without fixed boundaries, in order to provoke a larger war of conquest) and disagreements over where slavery would spread in new territories were important causes of the U.S. Civil War ...

https://sanantonioreport.org/remember-the-alamo-for-what-it-really-represents/

[UTUSN]

6. Trogodyte Dan PATRICK - criminal fascist bookburner

Wingnuts claim "freedom liberty 'murican values" for themselves and don't know the meanings.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215585254