Alamo: the largest statue to the Confederacy in this country

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I don't normally like to bring politics into my RRS viewing experience but this article has bothered me since I read it over the weekend.

Alamo history: A look at the battle as Trump speaks at Texas rally (lubbockonline.com)

Canizares-Esguerra said Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna were not coming to take freedom from the Texans but rather to liberate slaves on east Texan plantations. He called the Alamo "the largest statue to the Confederacy in this country."

"It’s a battle over slavery," he said. "It is telling that Trump goes to Alamo right now. It summarizes the history of white supremacy in this country by that very choice and the fact that the real history of the Alamo is completely ignored in textbooks, in classrooms, in history books."

I always understood Santa Anna to be a dictator who declared himself the "Napoleon of the West" and massacred prisoners at Goliad. My bad, I guess he's the Mexican version of Abraham Lincoln?

 

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