The Alamo

[CTyankee]

I have an upcoming meeting with my book producer who has just returned from a conference in San Antonio and had visited the Alamo. He is a republican and I anticipate a discussion about the Alamo.

Let me interject here that I am a 3rd generation Texan who was pretty much instructed to believe that the Alamo was about Texas's freedom from oppression by the Mexican government at the time in history. Since then I have never given it much thought and I now live in blue CT.

I need some help from folks who have a better understanding of this historical battle (and the movie about that battle) and the truth, not the fiction, about it.

I'll cross post this in the Texas forum. Thank you for your help in my revisiting this issue...

[KC Shell]

1. The Alamo

As someone that was kicked out of the Alamo and escorted out by security, the Alamo was not about freedom. I was kicked out because I was offended it was a shrine to men who wanted to keep slaves. Mexico had outlawed slavery, & Texas, which was still part of Mexico, wanted to remain a slaveowners, so they took a stand at The Alamo. The sad/frustrating thing is the people that run The Alamo site know it was about slavery but continue the myth. Thom Hartmann did a great synopsis on his show recently.

[CTyankee]

2. Thanks! I wonder about textbooks for kids in public schools in Texas read the truth or the fiction about the Alamo...

do you have any info?

[hlthe2b]

3. There was a recent best-selling book on the Alamo that resulted in the author's address to a historical group

being canceled at the bequest of one of the deplorable in the TX government--I can't remember if it was Abott, his LT. Gov, his horrendous AG or who-- but someone at that level asserted considerable pressure.

So, I don't think it takes much to assume the worst about those school textbooks and what indoctrination those kids are receiving under a RW Texas governance.