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Do NOT call the defenders of the Alamo HEROIC says Texas school board
2018-09-09
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World:

Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken—I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch—The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country—Victory or Death.

William Barret Travis
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Texas State Board of Education's advisory panel suggested 'heroic' be taken out of descriptions of the Alamo for seventh grade classes
    Little men try to tear big men down. Midgets try to tear giants down.

  • The curriculum currently states that the 'siege of the Alamo and all of the heroic defenders who gave their lives there'
    The text they're bitching about is to the right. Form your own opinion about whether it's heroic.

  • 'Heroic' is seen as a 'value-charged word' for the complicated history of the Revolution and its connections to slavery and the autocratic Mexican regime
    If Santa Ana wasn't an autocrat, what was he? And for extra credit, have the school board members count the number of references to slavery in the Travis Letter.

  • 'Stop political correctness in our schools,' Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Thursday
    If you want to be "Fair and Balanced," you might want to chant "Viva Juan Seguin! Viva Juana Navarro! Viva Salvador Flores!" The defenders weren't all Anglos. Those fighting for the Republic of Texas weren't all Anglos.

  • George P. Bush, state land commissioner, also voiced disdain for a plan to allow students to not have to write a separate assignment about 'the Travis Letter'
    "I shall never surrender or retreat." It kinda went into the marrow of the state. Now the insects are trying to get rid of it.
Posted by:Fred

#9  better print of video (probably the original)
Posted by: Elmeremble Elmotch5686   2018-09-09 17:40  

#8  She should have said $20,002,000.
Posted by: gorb   2018-09-09 17:39  

#7  Well, there were some Anglo immigrants to Texas who really did not care for the fact that Mexico had banned slavery. Others most likely were not fond of the Mexican religous policy. In the end IMO Mexico would of lost Texas and most or much of the Southwest simply due to immigration. I don't know what Mexico's immigration policy was at the time but I would consider the average European immigrant would consider the US a much more likely destination
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2018-09-09 16:11  

#6  OK laughed the whole video.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-09-09 13:39  

#5  Not enough tar and feathers to go around these days.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2018-09-09 13:36  

#4  Love the video grom!
Posted by: warthogswife   2018-09-09 12:31  

#3  Actually the recommendation came from one of several panels or groups soĺïcited for input to the formal state 15 member committee that casts fïnal votes on adopting recommendations. The Chair of the formal commitee also came out against the input. The leader of the panel that made the recomendation is associated with a university (University of Texas) infested with your typical knuckle dragging liberals who claim to have evolved from monkeys and want to convince us that we did, too.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2018-09-09 09:35  

#2  
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-09-09 04:09  

#1  NOT my Texas!
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-09-09 03:19  

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