The Alamo: White Supremacists Ruled the Day
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Mario Marcel Salas
David Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William B. Travis were all slave owners and white supremacists. Sam Houston was a slave owner and a white supremacist as well but there were plenty more during the time that these fake heroes fought to fasten slavery…
William Travis was a Racist Lunatic
By
Mario Marcel Salas
What is the real story about William B. Travis of Alamo fame? Was William Travis a gallant leader or was William Travis mentally unstable? There is some evidence that Travis may have been as whacky as John Wilkes Booth who recited poetry after killing Lincoln.…
The Alamo’s Connection to Slavery, the Menger Hotel, and the KGC
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Mario Marcel Salas
A short time before the Civil War racist military units were being organized in Texas. Slave owners were beginning to worry that their horrid institution of human bondage was being challenged. The Battle of the Alamo fueled much of this…
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 like? What was the historicity (what really happened) in what Travis did and stood for aside from the continuous hogwash that he is to be…
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 historic scrutiny. The “Victory or Death” letter does nothing to explain the actual circumstances that underpin the Battle of the Alamo and the role Travis…
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 yet to uncover the many mounds of half-truths, omissions, lies, distortions, and erasures of the true history of America. Many schools teach the usual dumb…
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 truth of what happened on April 21, 1836, at the battle of San Jacinto, where a new Texas Republic won its independence and the creation…
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 for the proposed Alamo Museum. However, what story will be told remains to be seen since there are organized schemes to hide and whitewash the…