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Cyrano

(15,388 posts)
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 06:34 PM Oct 2021

So about that "Remember the Alamo" crap [View all]

Texas was part of Mexico. Mexico was against slavery. Those guys who defended the Alamo were defending slavery.

Texas won the follow up battle, became a state and joined the Confederacy in the Civil War. The whole Alamo thing was about slavery, cotton and money.

Our history classes and movies taught us so much bullshit that it's hard for misinformed people to know what's true/real and what isn't.

Today, Texas is on the leading edge of American fascism. They're trying to make sure that Democrat's votes don't matter. They're redistricting to ensure that a minority of white racists decide who gets to run Texas and who gets fucked.

Wake up America. Texas is showing us all what the American Fascist Party is all about.

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Spot On SheLiberal Oct 2021 #1
Funny how we were never taught soooo much in school. Biophilic Oct 2021 #2
US history has been very largely whitewashed...nt Wounded Bear Oct 2021 #3
At the very least. nt Biophilic Oct 2021 #4
American history has been WHITEwashed, all right. ShazzieB Oct 2021 #10
That's an excellent book. I especially enjoyed the discussion of how broiles Oct 2021 #15
I recommend the book, Forget the Alamo Retrograde Oct 2021 #17
Even in Russia they know Stalin was a mass murderer. Xolodno Oct 2021 #5
I gotta defend public education on this one... albacore Oct 2021 #6
I had but two K-12 history teachers who didn't teach the usual textbook U.S.A. pablum history. hunter Oct 2021 #8
Interesting that the flip in Republican views on post secondary education... paleotn Oct 2021 #9
Good defense. The rise in Republican to kill education has been paid for by their owner donors. ancianita Oct 2021 #12
TX GOP opposed critical thinking skills in school. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #16
My pacifist abolitionist ancestors were not into that "Remember the Alamo" crap. hunter Oct 2021 #7
not into that "Remember the Alamo" keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #14
Is Perl Horber a friend of Hugh Moran? Retrograde Oct 2021 #18
There are a LOT of Texans trying to turn it Blue... ashredux Oct 2021 #11
I just read (ok listened to while out walking) a book "Forget the Alamo" dflprincess Oct 2021 #13
Abbot and the TX repubs do not want the true history of the Alamo taught. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #19
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