Yeah it would be unprecedented for white supremacists to lose control of the Alamo
A fun fact is that one of the major causes of the Texas Revolution is taught as "concern of immigration of Anglo-Americans" but one of the major reasons for THAT is that the Mexican govt of the time disapproved of slavery while the white Texans really wanted to own slaves.
So the white Texans seceded and fought the Texas revolution and then made slavery legal. This fact was NOWHERE in the Alamo museum that I could find when I visited. Instead it is all framed as "white Texans didn't want the centralist Mexican government curtailing their rights".
Anyway that's what people mean when they talk about whitewashing history textbooks, and it is an incredibly common problem because the Texas legislature mandates all schools in the state use the same textbooks. Publishing companies rewrite history based on Texan preferences.
And then because Texas has such a large market share, those textbooks are widely available and purchased by other school boards in other states.
And so we remember the Alamo as a symbol of resistance, when it was a symbol of defiance by white supremacists wanting to own people.
And so we remember the Alamo as a symbol of resistance, when it was a symbol of defiance by white supremacists wanting to own people.
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