Texas Political History according to research, colonialism and racism invents its own history by constantly transforming and shifting historical narratives. This shifting is of course designed in a complex array of social practices and fake history that is whitewashed. Also, European control often accepts minor traits of the culture it conquers such as locations, plants, animals, etc., but exercising their authority to pick and choose the traits that they would incorporate it into their culture. For example, there are more than two dozen states named after Native Americans but the public has little knowledge of it. The states that are named after Native People, their tribes, or their language, are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Ignorance rules the minds of Americans.
We need to provide a historical and political narrative that reaches beneath the surface of the accepted versions of Texas political history. Information should not be held as a secret. Scholars ought to be able to pass on the latest research, not to just a small audience of intellectuals or scholars, but to the population as a whole. Historical research must be made available, as much as possible, to the general public and not held behind a wall of pedigreed loftiness. The hidden must be made known, but one should be aware that accepted historical accounts are often aimed at maintaining the foundational myth of the status quo. In our society, the status quo has pushed sanitized and sugarcoated versions of every historical event that is soaked in white supremacy. Every state in the Union has its mythology that was created within the confines of a white supremacist settler government. Texas was no exception.
Many Texas settlers illegally flooded into Texas to gain wealth from the cotton trade, but they were also led by the white supremacist ideas of the time and the belief that owning slaves would make them wealthy. Wealth and racism, worked in tandem with one in front of the other, but each reversing position as needed. With the genocidal practices of white militias and slavery existing side by side, it became necessary to justify the horrors of slavery with the ideas of white superiority. The racist ideas flooded the minds of Whites with increased brutality and eventually led to the social policies written into law or practiced by Whites as tradition. Using black women as “breeder slaves” was a common practice on plantations to name one such atrocity that was accepted as a norm. The poison of white supremacy was everywhere.
The South’s long-lasting system of racial organization was the scene of countless struggles against the system of white supremacy that ruled America for hundreds of years. Within the borders of Dixie (the South) the rules of racial etiquette ruled supreme, and any violation of those rules would often mean death, beatings, hangings, burned alive at the stake, and homes being burned out by mobs of so-called Whites that had bought into the system of racial oppression. Southern bigots drove out those who opposed racism by calling them “Yankees, carpetbaggers, and “N-Lovers.” One can still hear all of these terms being said in 2024 by bigots in small towns and large ones as well. Ignorance rules at every level and even makes itself known when someone says, “I don’t see color,” but the society as a whole does. It is not enough to be non-racist, but only by being anti-racist can ignorance be conquered.
