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San Antonio Express NewsThere are only five out of 12 Tejano heroes’ names inscripted in bronze in the Alamo chapel. This shameful exclusion must be corrected before anything else is done at the mission. Land Commissioner George P. Bush has the power to make this right. I urge him to do so with the utmost immediacy.
The descendants of the Tejanos, the original settlers of Texas, and most Mexican-Americans do not feel welcome at the Alamo. The exclusion of the Tejano names in the chapel and on the Alamo Cenotaph is evidence of why Latinos feel ostracized. Under the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and their curator, the story of the Alamo did not include the truth about these individuals and their part in the fight for independence from Mexico.
The Tejanos settled on this land about 120 years before the Battle of the Alamo, and these mixed-race people are the ones who have given Texas its identity. They brought the longhorn from Spain, and they originated the cowboy boots and hat, as well as the vaquero, or cowboy, culture that is still popular today. They also made their mark early by giving Spanish names to geographical formations such as rivers, creeks and mountains.
It will be shameful if this conscious effort to sublimate the Tejanos who lost their lives is not corrected at this time. San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo, will be going through a big transformation soon with the help of state funding. What would have happened if the UNESCO delegates had looked into the cultural history of exclusion that has been prevalent at the Alamo?
Included in the plans to upgrade the mission grounds should be a plan to erect a monument or public artwork dedicated to the Tejanos. It should illustrate the history of the original setters and clearly state the history of this land. This artwork will serve to revise the Alamo narrative to be all-inclusive.
As stated in an Express-News article (“Rampage fallout felt in Texas; State is not transfixed by its Confederate past,” front page, June 23), “Texas was different, by birth and by destiny. ... Texas has come to venerate a different set of heroes ... those who defended the cause of Texas independence at the Alamo.”
Well, Jim Bowie was a swindling slave trader, and under the law of this land at that time blacks were free in Mexico. But they were re-enslaved when Texas won its independence from Mexico. Many re-enslaved people escaped to Mexico where they founded Nacimiento de los Negros in Coahuila, Mexico. In Texas up until the civil rights laws, Mexican-Americans were the African-Americans of the South. In Travis Park there is a monument to the Confederate dead. The Confederacy was for slavery, pure and simple. This monument should be rededicated to the Tejanos to make a wrong, on many fronts, right.
14 comments:
Very well stated !!
There are 3 saints the Gringos pray to : San Antone, San Jacinto, and San-of-a-bitch. If you listen to their conversations, the third one really belongs to them.
Let's include all whose names are left out; Anglor, Hispanic, Native American and even non-American (there must have been a few illegal European immigrants in there). Let's also take down the Confederate flag (which flew over Texas during the Civil War) and just have "Five Flags over Texas". Trying to change history to be correct is one thing; trying to change or "footnote" history to be politically correct is to deny history. Those who deny history will likely see the same mistakes again.
I almost felt a tear come out of my eye. Sniff, sniff. The poor forgotten Tejanos. *ROLLS EYES* We have nothing better to talk about? Seriously?
Quien es el guey con el gorro? Se ve perdido, el cabron!
What gets me is that this simplistic version of the Alamo story will continue to be taught to our kids and grandkids for generations to come. It's not like we Texans don't know the real history concerning this venerated piece of Texas. I would hope our teachers would teach (as Paul Harvey would say) " the rest of the story ".
You stupid ass there is no such thing as a "Tejano". They were first Indians, then Spaniards then Mexicans and then residents of the Republic of Texas and lastly the USA. The land of present day Texas was stolen from Mexico because of the chaos and political in-fighting in Mexico City. If it were not for that the entire "war" would have been one Alamo after another.
We are Easy Culos for the politicians and White Man, Juan. Mexicans are not always good people. I have a maid from Mata who steals from me. You barking up the wrong flagpole, dude.
Dags
Fuck you Dags and your annoying "culos" comments! Do us all a favor and drop dead.
Fire her and call the Border P. They will haul your Ass for harboring an illegal .
Fuck you Eduardo PAZ Martinez and your annoying posts pretending to be dags.....then you post to tell dags to stop posting annoying comments when it's you all along! You are one sick bastard loser Eduardo PAZ Martinez. TAS todo loser VATO!
As always this blog is populated by a bunch o whiny ass Mexicans. Whine, whine, whine boo hoo hoo, the Gringos have done us wrong. Grow up pendejos!
That's Will Rogers in the '30's picking tomatoes in the Balley.
Us, Naco Pendejos are now attending the universities to be be better informed , prepared to be educated Pendejo Nacos, Nacas, and Naquettes.
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