Posted on 05/08/2021 9:28:27 PM PDT by blueplum
SAN ANTONIO —The Alamo needs a makeover; on that, at least, everyone agrees. Plaster is flaking off the walls of the nearly 300-year-old former Spanish mission, the most revered battle site in Texas history...
...A $450 million plan to renovate the site has devolved into a five-year brawl over whether to focus narrowly on the 1836 battle or present a fuller view that delves into the site’s Indigenous history and the role of slavery in the Texas Revolution...
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But just to clarify, Mexico didn't completely abolish slavery until 1857, with the first attempt in 1810 (only in regions the army controlled) and the second in 1821 (designed to free just the children of slaves), not widespread or accepted in 1836.
$450 million to renovate the Alamo? Isn’t it a building about the size of a single suburban lot?
Oy vey.
What's your problem. The deal is to do a job on the taxpayer, not for the taxpayer.
I'd imagine real Texans would do it for nothing so it will still be there for OUR posterity.
part of that, appears to be for a museum (maybe to replace the existing Ripley’s?) to contain, among other relics, the large Alamo collection being donated by musician Phil Collins. The state owns the site, the city, which now claims to be majority hispanic, wants to control the story. Museum exhibits to minimize the historical narrative are part of the projected cost/demands.
Keep in mind that the entire purpose of the Deep State and the Democrat Party is to eradicate America and (insert word of violence here) all Western Civilization promoters. It’s really that simple.
Jorge P Bush’s fingerprints all over this.
Just turn it into another woke reeducation museum full of fake history. Don’t remember the Alamo at all.
The Alamo should never have been taken from the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. They had protected the Alamo for over 100 hundred years caring about it in the late 1800s when most Texans couldn’t be bothered with such a thing.
I think it was P that we can blame for this issue.
the most revered battle site in Texas history
No offense, but for me, personally, I remember both Goliad and the Alamo the same.
Again, for me, San Jacinto is the most revered site. Why? The Texan Army was vastly outnumbered, and won decisively in less than 20 minutes.
And, not just as a native Texan, but a native Pasadenaian who literally grew up 15 minutes from the battlegrounds. Hell, my uncle literally hung off the star at the top of the monument to clean it. We used to have family picnic’s out there through the 70’s and early 80’s. I’ve got pics and memories of that, and, as a kid, I used to picture the armies just relaxing across from each other - and then, BLAM! The Texans attacked. Just amazing.
Jeb is down there looking for the door to the Alamos basement
The pro-independence forces were not just white Americans but also Mexicans and some free slaves or free blacks.
Don’t let the anti-American revisionist Left rewrite history. Only Nazis and Communists do that. Oh wait, we’d better look at the revisionists again. I think we’re on to something.
OK, get a few negros with a grievance to work on it.
Problem solved, they got their part in it.
Ok I told the south bashers listed on my homepage it would come to this
Them and their glee over demonizing Dixie ....calling my ancestors Nazis
So
Where are you effing cowards now...
As I recall, many years ago, a band of American Maoists from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) (Robert Avakian’s personal cult worshipping psychopath), held a protest either in front of or actually inside the Alamo.
One of their leaders was a nutcase maoist names Johnson who was the defendant in the famous flag-burning case in Texas wherein the Supreme Court held that burning the flag (a flag) was an express of free speech, protected by the First Amendment.
Interestingly, this decision did or could have kept me from getting arrested when I helped burn a Red Chinese flag in front of the State Department, reportedly the first event of that kind in the U.S.
What’s good for the Red Goose is good for the Red/White & Blue Gander.
On a kinder note stucco and Adobe need reskinning fairly often
The drier the area the less frequent
Stucco is more durable on the exterior
Gonzales is a great place to visit! The museum is small but you can see a replica of the cannon. There’s a walking trail along the River where the skirmish between the Mexican army and the citizen soldiers of Gonzales took place. Gonzales was the home of Captain Dickenson and at least a dozen others who perished at the Alamo.
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