So, my specialty in life has been an in depth study of the Alamo. She is right, in that some who died at the Alamo were crooks, liars, corrupt and drunks. Not all of them. Jim Bowie in his diary made fun of the Mexican tavern ladies, and his purpose in life was to see how many he could take to bed. But William Travis, Col. Fanning, proper Baptists, had a far different concept of Freedom and Liberty. When I visit the Alamo, and listen to the guides, they have a TOUGH time articulating and separateing the RACES from the POLICIES. Kind of like today. So when the guides talk about Mexicans, he really should use the term tyrants, ..men sent to use the sword to force Texians to comply with a Constitution that was never ratified, and neither was their any representation on their behalf about the laws that were being enforced. Some Mexicans, like Lorenzo de Zavala, were freedom loving Mexicans who turned sides and became the 1st Vice President of Texas. It really is difficult to teach history and help people understand the POLICIES and ideologies that people were willing to fight for. It wasn’t JUST again the people who ate tortillas and spoke Spanish. She is very ignorant, and her well educated son needs to enroll her in a class on Civics 101 at the San Antonio College nearby.
Many who fought at the Alamo were Latinos! they were fighting the tyranny of Gen. Santa Ana under a flag that was a Mexican Tri-color with the date 1824—they wanted to return to the Mexican Constitution of 1824 that Santa Ana had shredded—after swearing he would uphold it.
One Correction: Colonel Fannin...
And Jim Bowie wasn’t all that bad. He married into the VERAMENDI Family. His father in Law was Governor of Cohuila and Tejas.
Can you honestly blame him? Spending one's life chasing Latinas is a life well lived... Just sayin'. ; D