Juneteenth (June 19th) is not a "holiday celebrating when news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." No. Just no. Y'all make it sound like network latency! Like we were playing Fortnite, and all the Black players were lagging.š¤”
Juneteenth is when the racist state of Texas took another very public L. Texas did everything it could to keep slavery going as long as possible. They gave up land to Oklahoma, so they could be below the slavery line. The Alamo was a victory for abolitionists.
Texas should look like Kid's hair. But it looks like Play's hair. Because Texas wanted to hold onto that racism just a little bit longer.
The Alamo was also a fight to preserve Texas's right to keep slavery going. They lost.
You can't just keep lying and changing how history is taught to hide the shamefulness of racism. If you want to be remembered as the good guys, maybe try being the good guys!
Otherwise, you'll just be embarrassed when your kids and grand kids learn the truth about you.
They teach you about the Alamo. But they don't teach you about the Nueces massacre. At the start of the civil war, almost a hundred armed German Texans (who opposed slaveryā„ļøššæ) tried to flee South to Mexico, so that they could make it over to New Orleans. The Confederate soldiers caught them and massacred them.
Robstown in Nueces County, was one of the last places to begrudgingly give up slavery 2 years after the emancipation proclamation.
This is the logo of the Robstown football team today.š¤”
Why are white Texans who died bravely fighting to keep slavery going remembered as heroes? But white Texans who died bravely fighting to oppose slavery, forgotten and not talked about? š¤
What are we really celebrating?
"Everyone was racist back then!" No. No they weren't. Stop saying that.
@mekkaokereke The San Patricios are usually protrayed as supporting Mexico because it was a Catholic country, but I'd love to find more material on how many were also abolitionists.
https://aaregistry.org/story/recognizing-the-saint-patricks-battalion/
@mekkaokereke *Forget the Alamo* by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, was so "controversial" that a reading on it was cancelled at the Bullock Texas State History Museum, just hours before the event.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Gov. Greg Abbott, and other state officials head the State Preservation Board, which oversees the museum. They were that hellbent on quashing any discussion about the Alamo. https://tinyl.io/8nBe
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick confirmed on Twitter that he called for the event to be canceled. Abbott, Patrick and other GOP leaders are board members of the State Preservation Board, which oversees the Bullock museum.
@mekkaokereke Hampton Park in Charleston, SC, formerly a Union cemetery for northern prisoners of war, comes to mind, named after Confederate General Wade Hampton III, who was one of the biggest slaveholder assholes in the South at the time of the Civil War.
After the war, Hampton became a proponent of the "Lost Cause" cult, member of the "Red Shirts" & governor of SC.
P.S.: Mayor of Charleston, SC is John Tecklenburg (D).
//// America deserves better. ////
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Park_(Charleston)
#DishonorableConfederacy #Slavery #Inhumanity #Racism #Dehumanization #Abuse #WhiteSupremacy #AmericaDeservesBetter #ReconstructionAmendments #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether
Frederick Douglass made himself the most compelling witness to the evils of slavery and prejudice. He suffered as his master broke up his family. He endured whippings and beatings. In the antebellum South, it was illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, but Douglass learned anyway, and he secretly educated other slaves. After he escaped to freedom, he tirelessly addressed antislavery meetings throughout the North and the British Isles for more than two decades.
I'll take "Daughters of the #Confederacy" for $1000.
@marsroverdriver @mekkaokereke I love this line from the Wikipedia article that discusses the background of the battle, before Texans revolted against the Mexican government, leading to the battle of the Alamo.
"Mexican authorities blamed much of the Texian unrest on United States immigrants, most of whom had entered illegally and made little effort to adapt to the Mexican culture and who continued to hold people in slavery when slavery had been abolished in Mexico."
@Shivaekul @marsroverdriver @mekkaokereke
The United States is essentially #fascist, not in a "I label everything I don't like as fascism" kind of way, but in a practical, methodical way, if you look at what constitutes #fascism, America does it. And if there are exceptions domestically, you can bet your money that it applies internationally.
@mekkaokereke One of my favorite white guys from the founding of the US was French: the Marquis de Lafayette, who offered to pay for Jeffersonās slaves to be free; Jefferson refused. He urged Washington to free his slaves; Washington refused.
(Lafayette did buy a plantation with slaves that he intended to give an education, then free, but France seized the land.)
I wrote about him as an example of selfless leadership in my blog, and my hometown is named after him. +1000 on this.
Sorry, we can't touch that subject on Mastodon in case the mods suspend our accounts.
Have you got any black or white fur cat pictures to share?
@mekkaokereke
Thanks very much for introducing me to the story of the Nueces Massacre. Iāll be researching that starting with the decent Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueces_massacre
If the #GermanAmericans who brought the #accordion šŖ and German #beer š» to #Texas were #abolitionists, that changes their whole story
@abesibe @mekkaokereke
Years ago. I should probably reread it
Especially because I continually recommend it to people forgetting how violent it is
Because all I remember is the nice green #Accordion šŖ
Which itself comes to a sad end š¢
I tried to get Annie Proulx to blurb my #AccordionRevolution book before it came out
Her, Dylan and Tom Waits were the ones that got away
And even among the racists, then, as now, there are degrees.
I had a racist family member who would have freaked out if his daughter dated a Black person but dedicated his career to integrating the schools and electing Black leaders.
That's not to pat him on the back, just to say that people are complicated, and even racists are disgusted by some of the worst effects of racism.
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