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.🤡

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 slavery♥️🙏🏿) 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.🤡

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? 🤔

What are we really celebrating?

"Everyone was racist back then!" No. No they weren't. Stop saying that.

@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

#History #Histodon #BlackMastodon #censorship #Alamo

Texas museum cancels book event examining slavery’s role in Battle of the Alamo

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.

The Texas Tribune
@SharonGibson3 @mekkaokereke Texas politicians are such cowards, aren’t they?
Afraid of gays
Afraid of books
Afraid of history