Posted on 07/03/2021 8:42:46 PM PDT by The Bugler
With mere hours to go before a scheduled book event on Thursday, the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in downtown Austin removed itself from a discussion on a controversial new book that re-examines the narrative around Texas’ iconic Alamo landmark.
“Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth,” was released earlier this year and attempts to present the “truth” around what happened at The Alamo and those viewed as heroes for the battle. Especially given a critical eye are Texas’ legends James Bowie and William Barret Travis.
Authors Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford argue they’re not asking people to “forget” the Alamo, but to understand the full truth of the bloody battle: namely that it was fought in large part to preserve slavery but is historically recounted as a “heroic Anglo narrative.”
The Bullock Museum was set to talk to the book’s authors but announced at around 4 p.m., San Antonio Express-News reports. The museum cited concerns from its board of directors, which includes conservative state lawmakers Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan.
“As a member of the Preservation Board, I told staff to cancel this event as soon as I found out about it,” Patrick responded in a tweet on Friday. “Like efforts to move the Cenotaph, which I also stopped, this fact-free rewriting of TX history has no place at the Bob Bullock Museum.”
Co-author Tomlinson responded to the cancellation, saying: “I think we’re being censored, which is a shame, because the mission of the Texas history museum is to promote examining our past. We’ve done more than a dozen events, and this is the first time we’ve been shut down like this.”
In an interview with KXAN Tomlinson expanded: “I think it is politics, and I think they’re distorting what critical race theory means the same way they distorted political correctness and multiculturalism in the past. It’s just another piece of propaganda.”
Despite its criticism, “Forget the Alamo,” has been lauded by several historical writers, in addition to The New York Times, Houston Chronicle and Wall Street Journal.
San Antonio Express-News reached out to Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick, but have not yet heard back.
The event’s cancelation comes hot on the heels of ongoing debate nationwide over the alleged teaching of critical race theory in America’s public schools — despite the high unlikelihood of ever encountering the doctrines outside of a law school, where they originated.
CRT, while not a singular set of lesson plans, examines the history of the U.S. and its inequitable legal treatment of Black and brown Americans. A Harvard analysis explains CRT aims to aid white people in identifying their own biases and privilege, while giving people of color understanding of how they’ve been systemically disenfranchised.
Do not need Carpet Baggers or Yankees (redundant) rewriting Texas history.
Oh good God.
Newsflash: not everything is about blacks and black slavery!
Full of themselves.
An article written by a guy named Fal-con?
Um, we already know what side he’s on.
And no, we’re not giving it back to Mexico. And Santa Anna was not a misunderstood Good Guy.
Notice the last statement of this news station writes as if it’s fact about how CRT examines the inequities of black and “brown” people in the US.
Screw them all.
A W for the good guys.
The fact they had to be pressured into backing out speaks VOLUMES about the _ssclowns running this place. They need to be FIRED not just pressured into backing down. Leftists are everywhere. They are relentless. As President Trump states often with FRUSTRATION in his voice. Leftists are EVERYWHERE and the Stick Together Like Glue.
Meanwhile getting Republicans to agree on anything and mobilize on anything is like Herding Cats.
“The event’s cancelation comes hot on the heels of ongoing debate nationwide over the alleged teaching of critical race theory in America’s public schools — despite the high unlikelihood of ever encountering the doctrines outside of a law school, where they originated.”
They get away with one BIG LIE after another, and now they deny that CRT is even in public schools? I guess we’ll be hearing this a lot soon: “CRT is a figment of the imagination of the Far Right, it only exists in their minds”.
I can see the strategy here - by denying it even exists, they no longer need to worry about having to debate and defend it.
Leftists still together because leftists navigate to the same liberal educations. They become an echo chamber, and they only hear themselves. They like government jobs for the security and lack of accountability.
Conservatives tend to be more economically focused and are drawn to credentials that do not merit jobs running government agencies.
It is time to defund and disband all forms of public education. We need to return those tax dollars to the people and let private enterprise determine what should be taught.
Why is it not called, Critical Race History? What is the theory crap?
Well said. Thank you.
Which is why they titled their book "Forget The Alamo". I get it.
Your stupid book is called, literally, "Forget The Alamo".
But it is for them. blacks compete with gays as the most self centered, selfish group of humans on the planet.
The inconvenient truth the Left can no longer accept:
It was both Texians and Tejanos that rebelled against the dictatorship of Santa Anna. Several other Mexican states rebelled as well. Texas was the one state that won. Juan Seguin was not at the Alamo, he was seeking reinforcements to defend the mission.
The guy published a book. That’s hardly “censorship.” He’s not owed a cocktail party for publishing fake history.
Demographically (and culturally... and, eventually, politically), we are giving it back.
Regards,
Who are these “historical writers” who liked the book? What did they say in support of it?
Another example of pisspoor leftist writing.
The history of the Battle of San Jacinto is etched in stone at the monument, so are the left wingnut libtards going to try and tear it down along with all the Confederate statues?
You know right there that this report is a huge steaming pile of BS. Not only is CRT found in every liberal law school, it's found everywhere that National Educational Association union members teach our children.
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