Something ain't right, deep in the heart of Texas

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Tom Burke / Herald columnist

“Remember the Alamo!” chest-thumping Texans defiantly shout.

I’ll remember the Alamo alright; as mostly bullpuckey, like everything else about the Lone (Death) Star state.

The Texas Alamo myth is just that, a myth. It was a piddling B.S. skirmish, fought not as part of a glorious campaign to free the (white) people of Mexico’s Texas territory, but as part of a desperate effort to preserve white Texans’ ownership of black slaves. It wasn’t fought to make men free, but to keep men and women and children as property and chattel, in chains, beaten and flogged, and bought and sold and worked in bondage to make white folks rich.

It was disgusting.

Just like Texas’s new law abrogating a woman’s constitutionally guaranteed reproductive rights.

I saw a meme the other day. It read, “Texas won’t force a 12-year old girl to wear a mask at school, but they’ll force her to have a baby.”

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https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/burke-something-aint-right-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas/

[RussBLib]

1. tough words

and all deserved by the asshole Republicans leading this state (Texas).

[ashredux]

2. The fight with Mexico was is about stealing their land.

And Tejas was successful…

[monkeyman1]

3. Abbott is going to be just like deathsentence in FL. 1 term loser ! sound familiar ?

[soldierant]

9. I would like to believe you are correct ..

but Texas? And Florida? Didn't Florida re-elect Rick Scott? I think Florida (and Texas) would elect a plant if it had an [R] after its name.

(The common stinkhorn comes to mind. Especially by its taxonomic name.)

[monkeyman1]

10. Abbott & deathsentence made a very bad mistake !

both have pissed off a lot women ! very bad move ! they are more active in politics & their attention span is longer than men . proven fact ! just watch what happen's around election time in '22 ? these two clown's will go down ! look what happened to humpty dumpty when he got knocked off his damn wall ! same thing ! the ol' saying , they've shit in there mess kit's on this one !

[AllaN01Bear]

4. like most of american history, a myth. we point at other places , we should be pointing at ouselves

[LoisB]

6. AMEN!!!

[Sneederbunk]

5. 1,000 to 1,600 Mexicans and 189 Texans died in this "piddling skirmish."

[Wounded Bear]

7. The Mexican death toll is part of the myth...

at most it was a few hundred.

[hatrack]

8. IOW, about one day's COVID totals

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[Texaswitchy]

11. Some of us had family here at the time.

Had Mexican Land Grants.

Mexico was trying to populate the land.

I have relatives who died in the Texas Army.

Mexicans also served in the Texas Army.

Look it up.

[catrose]

12. Just looking at the Cenotaph shows half the names as Mexican.

Not that they teach that in school.

[Texaswitchy]

14. Yes.

A lot of Texas history was never taught.

My family had a lot of land from Mexican Land grants in central Texas.

My Grandfather inherited his land from Mexican Land grant.
Lost it in the depression.

I have some land I inherited from my mother also from a Mexican Land grant.

My neighborhood I grew up in was the same, and my house the same.

My people go way back in Texas.

[BlueWavePsych]

13. K&R