The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.
Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.
That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).
Freedom is always worth fighting for.
@joelle
Absolutely, though one *tiny* correction:
It wasn't "two years after the war ended" but "two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was announced (on Jan 1, 1863.) News reached Galveston in June of 1865 (two months after the war ended.) #Juneteenth
@joelle
On the subject of #Juneteenth...
The #RacistInChief proudly announced on his social media website today that they erected "two 88-foot tall flagpoles at the WH. One on the North lawn & one on the South."
NOT 100' flagpoles. Not 80', 85' or 90'. "88".
Ask a #racist the significance of the number "88".
https://abcnews.go.com/US/illegal-immigrants-trump-questions-workers-installing-white-house/story?id=122996015
@joelle
Flagpoles are typically (as you'd expect) sized in ten-foot increments.
88' is a custom height. #NaziDon
@gocu54 @itscool900 If you didn't know that, then you should also be aware of the concept of the "14 words" and the combination "1488", which is invariably a dogwhistle.
There is also the fact that 88 in the ASCII character set is the capital letter 'X" and there is some speculation that Musk deliberately chose that name for Twitter as a Nazi reference / piece of edgelord bullshit.
@itscool900 @farcepest I mostly keep an open mind about the claims but ...
a) Neo-nazi scum have been trying to mainstream their ideas on the Internet since at least the late 90s (see, for example, the "To learn who rules over you ..." bullshit - https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/to-learn-who-rules-over-you-quote-wrongly-attributed-to-voltaire-idUSL1N2UE2LM/) &
b) This is exactly the sort of edgelord s3kr1t-in-plain-sight / i-am-14-and-this-is-deep tiresome crap that Musk thinks is clever & which is catnip for him.
🎯
Yeah, the Texas colonists repeatedly swore loyalty to Mexico and promised to abandon slavery and yet...
@joelle WTAF
I am a 6th generation native Texan. Graduated in 1990. Lived there till my mid-40s.
I have never heard about this until today. Fuck conservatives; suppression like this is how they keep support.
@mhanson101 Likewise, I didn't find out about Driscoll CISD and their rabid attempt to erase Hispanic culture until a college course a few years ago. Same class, I think, where I found out I was still practicing a form of racism without even really knowing it.
Somewhere I found out that the Daughters of the Confederacy had a stranglehold on southern textbook approvals for decades after the Civil War, and man, it shows.
I'll bet you didn't know that 4.8mm people in Texas voted for Harris, which is more than the state of New York and basically everywhere except California.
But thanks for writing all of us off bc a handful of extremist politicians speak for all of us / apparently.
Can't eye roll at your thinking hard enough.
Mexican here.
They (the USA) also INVADED Mexico after that. And they STOLE half our territory after that.
Maybe in USA don't teach history or geography so many of their citizens don't know, but in Mexico we know.
We learn.
We will never forget.
@caitp @joelle @azurelore
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth - Wikipedia https://share.google/DzXw6CTKOIDe0Jugg
I highly recommend this book.
Huh. Geez, why didn't I see through that terrible excuse earlier? Thanks for the "duh" moment, I needed that.
You win the internet today! <3
@joelle Also worth noting that it wasn't the white guys Americans are told about that freed Texas. It was mostly latino and native Tejanos who did the work.
In reward for their work, they were murdered and driven from their lands by the white Texans after the war was over.
Debt peonage & corrupt convict-leasing kept Slavery by Another Name alive for another 150 years
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_by_Another_Name
Watch the PBS documentary
https://www.pbs.org/show/slavery-another-name/
Or read the book
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/14301/slavery-by-another-name-by-douglas-a-blackmon/
That's what the GOP's private prison donors want to re-institute; detainees as convict labor.
The only thing the GOP do is donor maintenance.
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