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Something I Said-Debunking The Myth Of The Alamo

The Myth of the Alamo
Something I Said
Dwight Hobbes
Insight News archives When youngsters get, in their history lessons at school, to the part where they're studying how The Battle of the Alamo presaged Texas becoming a state, they get the literally whitewashed version, a fable that for years has passed as fact. The turning point in the historic event, lasting from Feb. 23 – March 6 in 1836, was the siege of a mission and makeshift fort near San Antonio, The Alamo. Hollywood and school books put forth the propaganda that a brave band of freedom fighters stood their ground against the oppression of a ruthless tyrant. That Texas basically was rescued from Mexico. Well, for one, Mexico owned Texas, plain and simple. For those of you in the slow section, that means Texas was Mexican land. The Texans on it were colonists who'd agreed to a contract with Mexico. And, then, decided they didn't have to live up to their end of the deal, that they could just decide the land was theirs. These so-called revolutionaries were at odds with Mexico over the "right" to steal Mexican territory (and, by the way, wanted to keep slavery, which Mexico's president Generalissimo Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had abolished). The only ones who could legitimately call themselves revolutionaries were Mexicans who lived in Texas and wanted to separate from Mexico. And about whom you seldom hear a word when it comes to remembering those who lost their lives at The Alamo. Further, James Bowie, David Crockett (he did not, it happens, go by Davey) and the rest of the defenders did not choose to die as martyrs. Bowie and Crockett wanted to stage a hit-and-run guerrilla action and harass Santa Anna from the woods over hilly, broken terrain where they had an advantage. But, they were victims of commanding Col. William Travis' mistake of holding up at the Alamo in anticipation of reinforcements that never arrived. So, the whole thing was a catastrophic blunder by land-grabbing thieves in the spirit of America's infamous idea, Manifest Destiny. Added to which, once General Sam Houston outsmarted Santa Anna and won this land war, white Texans summarily kicked every last Mexican Texan, including Capt. Juan Seguin, who'd survived the Battle of the Alamo, right out of the newly free country. By the time Texas became a state, nine years later, it'd been appropriated and overrun by white folk who had no business being there in the first place. Just like every other inch of square space in America. Kind of sheds a different light on things, doesn't it? If nothing else, it informs Mexican kids today – or at least it would, if the schools' history books were worth a damn – that their history is not that of a people who waged evil warfare against noble Americans and rightfully were defeated. It also deflates some of the notion that the little white kids sitting next to them in class (what few that haven't fled at the hands of their parents) are inherently moral better-thans. Bottom line, it tells the truth. Something it is long since time happened.
About the Author

Twin Cities Daily Planet articles archived at www.tcdailyplanet.net/profiles/dwight-hobbes. Dwight Hobbes has written for ESSENCE, Reader's Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, Mpls/St. Paul, MN Law & Politics, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune and Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (where he contributes the commentary column Something I Said). He's spoken his mind over National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Blog Talk Radio's UNOBSTRUCTED and KMOJ in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Was regularly featured as guest commentator on NewsNight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Spectator (Minneapolis Television Network). His monthly column "Hobbes In The House" in MN Spokesman Recorder speaks to domestic abuse and rape. His plays are Shelter - produced at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues - produced by Mixed Blood Theatre, University of Southern Illinois in Point of Revue, selected for Bedlam Theatre's 10-Minute Play Festival and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can't Always Sometimes Never Tell - produced by Theater Center Philadelphia, Long Island University, reading at The Kennedy Center and published in the anthology CENTER STAGE, In the Midst - produced by Long Island University, starring Samuel E. Wright. Hobbes spoke on the panel "Farewell To August Wilson" at the Guthrie Theater, broadcast on Conversations With Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ). Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single "Atlanta Children" (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Island/NYC area, including The Other End, Kenny's Castaways and My Fathers Place. He fronted the Boston blues band Midlight. In Minneapolis, Hobbes opened for David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at Terminal Bar, sat in with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley at Sol Testimony's Soul Jam, The New Congress at Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille's Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops in at the occasional open mic around town. www.myspace.com/dwighthobbesmusic

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