Great blog! I think it is refugees taking care of other refugees! I am one of the inmates trying to help. I have felt this way too, questioned how many refugees we really have. I also think about animals, pushed from their habitat with less and less place to live out their natural lives.
wow / yes / i didn't think about the animal refugees while writing this but it's so true / although i seem to hosting a couple of opossums occasional raccoons and a feral cat at my place / hmmm
You wrote, "Fiesta has its origin in the commemoration of our glorious battle of the Alamo, where everybody died defending their right to have slaves."
Tell me about all the slave-owners at the Alamo; all two of them!
Tell me about the dozens of defenders from North of the Mason-Dixon line, the immigrants from Europe, and the aristocracy and peasants that lived in San Antonio during the Spanish occupation. Were they fighting for "their right to have slaves?"
No Rohn, they died fighting in opposition to the worst dictator this hemisphere has ever seen!
'and other things' / this wasn't a spanish occupation / it was mexico and the americans were immigrants invited here to help develop the country / they were traitors to the government / seditionists which is probly why they were killed instead of captured / they were fighting for freedom to do as they pleased including have slaves and get rich growing cotton like the southern land owners / the worst dictator this hemisphere has ever seen would probly be cortez or pizarro
You think the Americans were traitors to the government? No, that denunciation belongs to the tyrant who repealed the Mexican Constitution. More than half the states in Mexico were in open revolt against Santa Anna during that era. Do you think the struggle for the Republic of the Rio Grande was all about slavery? What about the Second Republic of Yucatán? Delve into history a little bit for the causes of the resistance in Alta California, Nuevo México, Tabasco, Sonora, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and particularly Zacatecas (where Santa Anna killed thousands of women and children).
When Santa Anna changed the rules, thousands of citizens throughout Mexico became insurrectionists! The flag over the Alamo was emblazoned "1824" because that was the year the Mexican Constitution was created -- and dozens of combatants were fighting, not for independence, but to uphold the document in effect at the time of their immigration. Some defenders were probably fighting for slavery (Travis and Bowie) but what about the abolitionist at the Alamo? You might want to check to see what Amos Pollard was fighting for.
For me your blog was a much larger concept than who was the worst dictator or the most righteous soldier.
thank you
Great blog! I think it is refugees taking care of other refugees! I am one of the inmates trying to help. I have felt this way too, questioned how many refugees we really have. I also think about animals, pushed from their habitat with less and less place to live out their natural lives.
No more war.
Happy Fiesta!
wow / yes / i didn't think about the animal refugees while writing this but it's so true / although i seem to hosting a couple of opossums occasional raccoons and a feral cat at my place / hmmm
Yeah me too. Providing refuge, sanctuary, for even a few helps.
You wrote, "Fiesta has its origin in the commemoration of our glorious battle of the Alamo, where everybody died defending their right to have slaves."
Tell me about all the slave-owners at the Alamo; all two of them!
Tell me about the dozens of defenders from North of the Mason-Dixon line, the immigrants from Europe, and the aristocracy and peasants that lived in San Antonio during the Spanish occupation. Were they fighting for "their right to have slaves?"
No Rohn, they died fighting in opposition to the worst dictator this hemisphere has ever seen!
'and other things' / this wasn't a spanish occupation / it was mexico and the americans were immigrants invited here to help develop the country / they were traitors to the government / seditionists which is probly why they were killed instead of captured / they were fighting for freedom to do as they pleased including have slaves and get rich growing cotton like the southern land owners / the worst dictator this hemisphere has ever seen would probly be cortez or pizarro
You think the Americans were traitors to the government? No, that denunciation belongs to the tyrant who repealed the Mexican Constitution. More than half the states in Mexico were in open revolt against Santa Anna during that era. Do you think the struggle for the Republic of the Rio Grande was all about slavery? What about the Second Republic of Yucatán? Delve into history a little bit for the causes of the resistance in Alta California, Nuevo México, Tabasco, Sonora, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and particularly Zacatecas (where Santa Anna killed thousands of women and children).
hey i'm not arguing with your deep insightful knowledge of mexican history i'm just saying that this was mexico and they were insurrectionists / for whatever reason / they're heroes to us but to them they were rebels trying to overthrow the government / here's first up on a google search 'reasons for the battle of the alamo' https://aaregistry.org/story/the-alamo-why-did-it-happen/#:~:text=The%20battle%20of%20the%20Alamo,regarded%20the%20Texans%20as%20murderers. / anyways that's not what this piece is about
When Santa Anna changed the rules, thousands of citizens throughout Mexico became insurrectionists! The flag over the Alamo was emblazoned "1824" because that was the year the Mexican Constitution was created -- and dozens of combatants were fighting, not for independence, but to uphold the document in effect at the time of their immigration. Some defenders were probably fighting for slavery (Travis and Bowie) but what about the abolitionist at the Alamo? You might want to check to see what Amos Pollard was fighting for.