Alamo renovation gets stuck over arguments about slavery

[reACTIONary]

On the one hand....

“Sometimes we try so hard to create perfect heroes, and in trying so hard to create perfection, we force ourselves into a corner where it’s difficult to accept the reality that people are not perfect,” said Carey Latimore, a history professor at Trinity University.

“As we become more diverse as a nation and a people, we’ve got to learn how to talk about these difficult conversations, but we’ve got to talk about it with nuance. And that’s what’s missing right now in our society, is the nuance.”

And on the other...

“If they want to bring up that it was about slavery, or say that the Alamo defenders were racist, or anything like that, they need to take their rear ends over the state border and get the hell out of Texas,” said Brandon Burkhart, president of the This is Freedom Texas Force, a conservative group that held an armed protest last year in Alamo Plaza.

Well, so much for nuance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/alamo-renovation-slavery/2021/05/07/ec8fe402-ae83-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html

[marble falls]

1. Demonstrates how deep in the American soul that slavery's stain of racism survives.

[ChazInAz]

2. The only male survivors

Of the Alamo were men who had been enslaved. Santa Ana promptly freed them.
Another uncomfortable truth for Texans is that James Bowie had dabbled in slave-trading, and saw a chance to profit in a slave state

[agingdem]

4. the whole Alamo debacle was nothing more

than a massive land-grab..."divine right" manifest destiny... nothing noble or righteous about it..."we don't care if it's Mexico's land...we want it, let's get it"...Remember the Alamo...bullshit!

[marie999]

3. The Texans did not revolt against Santa Anna while they were allowed to have slaves.

I think slavery was a big issue so it should be part of the renovation.