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IrishBubbaLiberal

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9. Travis was a racist asshole

Reply to Vogon_Glory (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 23, 2025, 12:05 PM

Mar 23

Lot of racist Anglos…asshole Travis especially …

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/tejanos-and-the-siege-and-battle-of-the-alamo

….The problem is a particularly difficult one in the case of Tejanos, whose presence was even dismissed in some sources, as for instance William Barret Travis’s letter of March 3 to the president of the Convention of 1836, in which Travis stated that the citizens of San Antonio were all enemies, except for the ones who entered the Alamo with the Texians, and that there were only three “Mexicans” in the fort with him.

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Alamo was/is an Anglo Bullshit tale, a myth. A bunch of loser Texas Anglos [View all] IrishBubbaLiberal Mar 22 OP

Bowie as a "murderer, slaver, and con man;" Travis as "a pompous, racist agitator;" and Crockett as a "self-promoting ol IrishBubbaLiberal Mar 22 #1

Progressive indignation aside, there are other reasons to commemorate the Alamo Vogon_Glory Mar 22 #2

It seems like you have a real vendetta against progressives. GreenWave Mar 22 #4

Oh, really? Vogon_Glory Mar 22 #5

Racist Anglos at the Alamo, fought for their right to own slaves IrishBubbaLiberal Mar 22 #6

Not all of them Vogon_Glory Mar 23 #7

There were some good intentioned Tejanos there too, but....they got screwed later by Anglos IrishBubbaLiberal Mar 23 #8

Travis was a racist asshole IrishBubbaLiberal Mar 23 #9

Can't read more w/out signing up, so I don't know if they mentioned the tax 'holiday' granted by the Mexican gov't ... eppur_se_muova Mar 22 #3