[Alamo] Revisionists tend to think the entire Texas Revolt was a bit more about protecting slavery from Mexico\u2019s abolitionist government than it was about opposing Santa Anna\u2019s supposed tyranny. In the oral traditions of the Mexican American community, in fact, mothers and fathers, for decades, have passed down their view that the Alamo was a symbol of Anglo oppression. Indeed, to scores of Tejanos interviewed by the authors, white racism toward the Latino \u201cother\u201d was hard-wired into to Alamo narrative. As San Antonio art historian Ruben Cordova puts it, \u201cDavy Crockett\u2019s [death], it\u2019s sort of like a Chicano version of the Jewish Christ killers. If you\u2019re looking at the Alamo as a kind of state religion, this is the original sin. We killed Davy Crockett.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
struggle to overcome centuries of Anglo oppression and discrimination<\/p>\n
history of Anglo oppression<\/p>\n
Anglos created myths that, he argued, served only to justify violence, imperialism, and the subjugation of Mexican Americans<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s worth pointing out that at no point in world history was Mexico ever a British (i.e. Anglo) territory. The closest you’ll get is Honduras and Belize. The Europeans who “oppressed” native Mexicans would have been Spaniards. The Spanish conquered and colonized Mexico just a few decades after Columbus first sailed to the West Indies.<\/p>\n
The whole article is as well thought out as you’d expect from the deep-thinking Vanity Fair.\u00a0 The defenders of the Alamo were literally slaughtered by the Mexicans under Santa Anna. Those who are said to have surrendered were summarily executed at his orders. Their memories are now being sullied. I’d say it’s unbelievable if it wasn’t so believable these days. Everything is a monument to slavery when you’re wearing social justice colored glasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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