Alamo was/is an Anglo Bullshit tale, a myth. A bunch of loser Texas Anglos

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2. Progressive indignation aside, there are other reasons to commemorate the Alamo

In the rush to condemn the Texians who died at the Alamo, progressives and anti-racists tend to forget who was attacking the fort: Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. That is a mistake.

Santa Ana was a military dictator that had seized control of the Mexican government and had squashed dissent. He was aligned with big land-owners and the reactionary parts of Mexico’s Catholic establishment. By the time his troops reached San Antonio, he had put down a couple of regional rebellions and had massacred the survivors.

If this sounds much like the sorts of squalid military dictatorships the US supported decades later and into the 20th century, this is no coincidence. Santa Ana was cut from the same template. I think it is right to rebel against that sort of tyrant.

And lest progressives are still tempted to whitewash this example of 19th Century Mexico’s criollo (white) establishment, let us not forget that this is the guy who sold the Gasden Purchase to the US in 1853 and that the great Benito Juarez chased Santa Ana’s @$$ out of Mexico in 1855.