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Runnin
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We've Been Telling the Alamo Story Wrong for Nearly 200 Years. Now It's Time to Correct the Record
It’s a lesson many Latinos in the state don’t learn until mandatory Texas history classes taught in seventh grade. “The way I explain it,” says Andres Tijerina, a retired history professor in Austin, “is Mexican-Americans [in Texas] are brought up, even in the first grade, singing the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance and all that, and it’s not until the seventh grade that they single us out as Mexicans. And from that point on, you realize you’re not an American. You’re a Mexican, and always will be. The Alamo story takes good, solid, loyal little American kids and it converts them into Mexicans.”
And Mexican-American history isn’t the only piece of the past that’s distorted by the Alamo myth. Academic researchers long tiptoed around the issue of slavery in Texas; active research didn’t really begin until the 1980s. Since then, scholars such as Randolph Campbell and Andrew Torget have demonstrated that slavery was the single issue that regularly drove a wedge between early Mexican governments—dedicated abolitionists all—and their American colonists in Texas, many of whom had immigrated to farm cotton, the province’s only cash crop at the time.
His correspondence shows conclusively that Stephen F. Austin, the so-called “Father of Texas,” spent years jousting with the Mexico City bureaucracy over the necessity of enslaved labor to the Texas economy. “Nothing is wanted but money,” he wrote in a pair of 1832 letters, “and Negros are necessary to make it.”
It’s a lesson many Latinos in the state don’t learn until mandatory Texas history classes taught in seventh grade. “The way I explain it,” says Andres Tijerina, a retired history professor in Austin, “is Mexican-Americans [in Texas] are brought up, even in the first grade, singing the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance and all that, and it’s not until the seventh grade that they single us out as Mexicans. And from that point on, you realize you’re not an American. You’re a Mexican, and always will be. The Alamo story takes good, solid, loyal little American kids and it converts them into Mexicans.”
And Mexican-American history isn’t the only piece of the past that’s distorted by the Alamo myth. Academic researchers long tiptoed around the issue of slavery in Texas; active research didn’t really begin until the 1980s. Since then, scholars such as Randolph Campbell and Andrew Torget have demonstrated that slavery was the single issue that regularly drove a wedge between early Mexican governments—dedicated abolitionists all—and their American colonists in Texas, many of whom had immigrated to farm cotton, the province’s only cash crop at the time.
His correspondence shows conclusively that Stephen F. Austin, the so-called “Father of Texas,” spent years jousting with the Mexico City bureaucracy over the necessity of enslaved labor to the Texas economy. “Nothing is wanted but money,” he wrote in a pair of 1832 letters, “and Negros are necessary to make it.”
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Runnin
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The Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast
The Harriet Tubman story is being replayed this week. Snowflakes needn't worry. There's nothing political in it, though it does debunks some of the myths given to her over the years.
The Harriet Tubman story is being replayed this week. Snowflakes needn't worry. There's nothing political in it, though it does debunks some of the myths given to her over the years.
acesfull86
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"It has come to our attention that an event called Taking B(lack) Pride at the Jimi Hendrix public park June 26th is charging whites only admission as reparations. We consider this reverse discriminationin its worst form and we feel we are being attacked for not supporting due to disparaging and hostile emails," the letter reads.
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These are the people who in any other context will tell you this isn’t a real thing.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
This makes me want to not even go to the Pride celebration.
cajunrevenge
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I want this to happen to me one day. If its possible to kill a person with sarcasm this is probably the scenario it would happen.
cajunrevenge
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McCann'sCans
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Hadn't seen it yet- thanks for pointing it out. Insane to me that places like this still exist in 2021 and that he would be dumb enough to defend it. I'd be all about a more progressive senator from RI- great idea.
Explain please.
nsacpi
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a swim club is an institution
systemic racism references institutional racism as opposed the racism inherent in an individual
a lot of country clubs for example have long dropped formal restrictions of membership on Jews, blacks, etc...but because of they have not been proactive in overcoming their racist history, they tend to be shunned by Jews, blacks, etc, who continue to feel uncomfortable about belonging to those kinds of clubs
i think this gets to the phrase anti-racism...even if an organization has dropped past racist practices...is that enough...or should they take affirmative action to overcome the legacy of their racist history
Let’s say some random private club of teenagers wants to only allow brown men. Is that systemic racism. If not, what is the difference with this club.
I think it’s stupid for any club to have restrictions but if hateful bigots want a place they feel safe then so be it. I don’t see how this is negatively impacting anyone.
I think it’s stupid for any club to have restrictions but if hateful bigots want a place they feel safe then so be it. I don’t see how this is negatively impacting anyone.
sturg33
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A private club is systemic?