Skewed history along racial lines has placed the named of William Barret Travis on schools, monuments, in history books, and public buildings across Texas. But what was this man really…
The recent announcements that the letter supposedly written by Colonel William Travis was on its way back to the Alamo is filled with myth that does not stand up to…
Discussion of Racism Begins with White Supremacy. We are aware that an education is the road to success, but without liberation it is hollow log filled with rot. We have…
For generations, the Yellow Rose of Texas has been one of America's most popular myths, connected to Texas and San Antonio, ballooning over time and doing little to resemble the…
The General Land Office, the City of San Antonio, and Alamo Trust Board recently announced an agreement with a property owner on E. Houston Street in order to create space…
The Haitian Revolution eventually lead to complete liberation from the dictator Napoleon and French racist colonialism. The complete removal of white supremacy from Haiti took place in 1804 with the…
No one can honestly say that slavery had nothing to do with the Alamo when Whites were expected to respect slavery and the supposed inferiority of nonwhites. But they are…
No one can honestly say that slavery had nothing to do with the Alamo and Texas independence when whites were expected to respect slavery and the supposed inferiority of nonwhite…
On the “Views” page of the San Antonio Express a few weeks ago was an extraordinary and less than honest article about misnamed Texans. In an article by Robert Seltzer,…
Loyalty to the gentlemen class of plantation owners, and the institution of slavery itself, made it possible for slave owners to organize militias and hordes of vigilantes in the southern…
Be Careful Who You Claim as A Hero! Just because someone claims that some historical figure was a good guy doesn’t make it so. This is the case with Texas…
Be Careful Who You Claim as A Hero! Just because someone claims that some historical figure was a good guy doesn’t make it so. This is the case with Texas…
Over the years the defenders of the Alamo have been touted as fighters for freedom and liberty for Texans. The recent release of the Alamo movie has prompted the most…
After Black soldiers were massacred at Fort Pillow by the eventual founder of the KKK, General Nathan Bedford Forest, there was a cry from black soldiers to “Remember Fort Pillow.”…
Myths are not education, and are written to shore up those in power and subject the multitude to support whatever the established untruth is said to be. One of the…
The recent Occupy Wall Street Movement has reached the San Antonio area and beyond as tens of millions of people have demonstrated against the greed of millionaires that have push…
Be Careful Who You Claim as A Hero! Various state governments do not want us to know the truth about fictional heroes. Texas is trying to do just that by…
In a book called “They Called Them Greasers,” by Dr. Arnoldo De Leon with the subtitle, “Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900,” a well documented work tells the story…
In the 1830, the Mexican government offered freedom, equality, and full rights to blacks that managed to escape the slaver army of Sam Houston. Many free blacks contributed their time…
As a child I was told of the heroic action taken by the Alamo defenders and how they fought against a Mexican tyrant. It was later that I came to…
The Eastside of San Antonio has historically been an African American community. It has been this way in modern times as the result of the migration of ex-slaves moving on…
We have been constantly told that General Santa Anna of Mexico was a real bad guy, but everywhere he went he liberated slaves from Anglo immigrants that came to Texas.…
The Alamo story and the war between the Mexico and the rebel Texans is so filled with myth that any attempt to tell the story will almost always end with…
Just because someone claims that some historical figure was a good guy doesn’t make it so. This is the case with Texas President Sam Houston and his less than humane…
Without the myth, and looking at the significance of slavery and the Mexican abolition of slavery in 1829, the largely pro-slavery Texas settlers and the Republic of Mexico were headed…
Over the years the defenders of the Alamo have been touted as fighters for freedom and liberty for Texans. This unchallenged history is finally being debated and discussed by those…
Over the years the defenders of the Alamo have been touted as fighters for freedom and liberty for Texans. This unchallenged history is finally being debated and discussed by those…
There is a lie that needs to be straightened out! This lie involves the bones entombed in a small marble casket in the downtown San Antonio San Fernando Cathedral. On…
The song that Mexican buglers played just before they killed the slave owners inside the Alamo was called “El Deguello,” and was probably a Moorish song from Africa that was…
There is a big falsehood that needs to be straightened out! This racial propaganda involves the bones entombed in a small marble casket in the downtown San Antonio San Fernando…
According to Benjamin Lundy, a white abolitionist, that lived during the time of the Alamo, “Texas Independence was based on slavery, land theft, and cotton production –Hence, the Battle of…
The comparison of the Battle of the Alamo to the Battle of Thermopylae is a farce that any rookie historian can prove. The Spartan 300 that supposedly fought long enough…
In a new book just published by Phillip Tucker, PhD, titled “Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth,” the myths of the Alamo have finally been…
The Alamo story and the war between the Mexico and the rebel Texans is so filled with myth and outright lies that any attempt to understand the story will almost…
People who try to make up Black history often try to act like San Antonio treated Black people nicely. This is being done now as some want people to believe…
Primary historical documents show that in the early 1800s, Texas, which was then Mexico, attracted thieves, killers, white supremacists, slave owners, crooks and criminals, and poor people from the slave…
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The Myths About Thanksgiving
In 1620, the Pilgrims did not bring any thanks with them when they boarded the Mayflower. They did not even express gratitude.…
Protest for civil and human rights 1972
Mario Marcel Salas, John Sanders and others presenting a resolution against white supremacy in South Africa by urging Black music performers not to preform in an apartheid country - 1979
The Immortality of Uncle Tom
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Mario Marcel Salas
Langston Hughes once wrote a poem titled, “Epitaph.” In this poem he speaks to Uncle Tom’s service to whites in the…