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Racist Nostalgia
By
Mario Marcel Salas
There is a historic connection between the terms Auntie (or Aunt), Uncle, and Sambo as they refer to either loyal slaves or traitors to others. The Term “Uncle Tom” arose from an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe call “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852). Now, we are seeing people…
Uncle Tom Still Has Meaning
By
Mario Marcel Salas
How sweet it must be, like a slave owner eating a sweet chicken dinner on a plantation porch, being fanned by a slave, when white supremacists get a Black or Brown person to stand up in public and say they love Trump or wear his…
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 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 defeat of the French led by the Black general Toussaint L’Ouverture. This revolt represented the largest slave uprising against white supremacy and slavery in the…
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 states. These militias were initially used to slaughter Indigenous People and later to serve as slave catchers and enforcers. Those desiring to be…
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 President Sam Houston and his less than humane views that was unfortunately defended by a few uneducated individuals. Sam Houston became the president of the…
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 and loyalty to Sam Houston only to be betrayed once Mexico was defeated. After Mexico was defeated free blacks were expelled from the state of…
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 discount that idea, and that those “heroes” were actually unapologetic slave owners or pro-slavery men that came to San Antonio to institutionalize slavery on soil…