So Texas is racist and the Alamo wasn't what we learned in school

[Midlifer]

Interesting article from Time magazine. You have to wonder what they were smoking...

It's Time to Correct the Alamo Story

So much of what we “know” about the battle at the Alamo is provably wrong

time.com

the Alamo has been a shrine run by the daughters of the Texas revolution for decades. The battle was not as movies portrayed but it makes for a good story. Sorry, the facts of the battle don’t meet the story.

 

[Axxe55]

Truth. Tribes were brutal to each other.

And not to forget another point, many rival tribes routinely took other tribe's members as slaves.

 

[Sam7sf]

And not to forget another point, many rival tribes routinely took other tribe's members as slaves.

Yup but liberals think they are portrayed as loving people that shed tears when someone littered.

 

[Axxe55]

Yup but liberals think they are portrayed as loving people that shed tears when someone littered.

If you look deep enough, no one is immune to having dirty laundry!

 

[Sam7sf]

You know what I tell people who tell me the land was taken away from them? They should have fought harder. Asshole comment of the day: Sam7sf.

 

[TexasFire316]

Sounds like those libtards don't care much for Texas. And to me, that is so so hurtful.
Texas could probably be talked into seceeding if they were to offer enough money.
umm, gold or silver please. No USD.

 

[seeker_two]

Remember, these are the types of opinions that P-Brain Bush read when he was managing the Alamo restoration.....

....imagine the legal opinions he'll read as AG.

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[Hippie Farmer]

Texas Monthly ran the same kind of article to promote a book of lies about Texas history. On Facebook, Jerry Patterson, a former Texas state senator, Texas Land Commissioner, and a retired Marine Vietnam veteran responded to Texas Monthly. I won't try to copy and paste his lengthy, point-by-point rebuttal to the lying revisionist book authors but I recommend it as a good starting point for researching the Alamo and that particular historical location.
Here is a link to Jerry Patterson's FB page. https://www.facebook.com/Patterson4TX/
The lengthy response to Texas Monthly can be found there.

Is there someplace we can read his reply without going to FaceBook?

 

[JLMcC]

Is there someplace we can read his reply without going to FaceBook?

Not that I know of. I'm not particularly inclined to cut and paste someone else's L-O-N-G posting to a different website.

 

[Ioannes]

Now that it's digital, it's primary value of lining bird cages is nonexistent.

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[Charley]

Simple reasoning behind the story. What Time Is It was PO'd at the NY Times for making up and publishing the 1619 hallucination, and felt they had to respond with more hallucinatory "history".

 

[Saltyag2010]

That story is anti-immigration. Just because the immigrant invasion was sorta kinda European they were wrong.

Spanish language comes from Spain. It’s also Europe.

Immigrants who came in the mid 1900s got it right. These people are peanut-butter-and-jealous

 

[TipBledsoe]

Time is mostly bovine feces. A good well researched accounting (IMO) of those events in history can be found in Brian Kilmeade’s book, titled, “Sam Houston & the Alamo Avengers.”
I found it to be a great read…well researched.

I took your advice and purchased Kilmeade's book, which I'll read once I finish volume 2 of Savage Frontier by Stephan Moore (which I highly recommend the series).

 

[Axxe55]

I'll say this. They ain't got balls enough to come to Texas and spout that nonsense off to a real Texan!

Tarring and feathering come to mind!

 

[AgedWarrior]

I took your advice and purchased Kilmeade's book, which I'll read once I finish volume 2 of Savage Frontier by Stephan Moore (which I highly recommend the series).

Savage Frontier sounds interesting…I will check it out.

 

[VNK971]

There are a couple more books that are worth reading. Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution, by Ted Schware, about the Battle of Medina, August 18, 1813. A second, about the Alamo, Blood of Heroes, by James Donovan.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

There are a couple more books that are worth reading. Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution, by Ted Schware, about the Battle of Medina, August 18, 1813. A second, about the Alamo, Blood of Heroes, by James Donovan.

Welcome to the Forum!

 

[lobo]

Here's yet another example of the top thinking of scholars in our state:


I am not sure if their beliefs bother me more, or their neurotic body language.

Well, get the hell out of the USA if it depresses you! No big loss!

 

[AgedWarrior]

There are a couple more books that are worth reading. Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution, by Ted Schware, about the Battle of Medina, August 18, 1813. A second, about the Alamo, Blood of Heroes, by James Donovan.

I am pretty new around here myself; welcome!

 

[innominate]

You know what I tell people who tell me the land was taken away from them? They should have fought harder. Asshole comment of the day: Sam7sf.

Tshirthell has a shirt for that