Commentary History is not clean. We like its lines well defined and its stories in 20-second soundbites, but history is never that way. It’s messy. When it doesn’t fit the woke agenda, the prevaricators and provocateurs take license to just make things up, often swaying great numbers of people. Such is the case with the recent attempt to recast the Alamo story as an Anglo narrative driven by “white supremacy” and the desire to maintain slavery. There are several holes in this argument, the first being that the Texas Revolution was hardly an Anglo narrative; the second involves the Texas leaders who actually tried to avoid war with Mexico, and the third is in casting all of the Anglos as “white supremacists.” Mexican President-General Antonio López de Santa Anna campaigned as a states’ rights candidate but once elected abolished the Constitution of 1824 and took full power for himself, declaring …
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