The Alamo: White Supremacists Ruled the Day
David Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William B. Travis were all slave owners and white supremacists. Sam Houston was a slave owner and a white supremacist as well but there were plenty more during the time that these fake heroes fought to fasten slavery upon the land, we now call Texas. Paul Lack, in quoting the Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper, mentions that James Fannin, a slave trader, expressed concerns of what slave owners in the southern states were always worried about, “Fannin called Texans to arms to prevent the prostitution of ‘the fair daughters’ of chaste white women.” The charge of raping white women was a tool that almost always ensured racist mob action and would spur racist fanatics to arms and lynching in the southern United States. Clearly, Fannin was using the race card to bolster hatred and recruit troops. The psychosis of racism, which many psychologists claim is not just normative but delusional, must be a normative cultural political tool to yeast up the hatred that white supremacy baked into the minds of whites for hundreds of years. Fannin’s use of such horrid rhetoric was a clarion, high-pitched call for whites to rise up against Mexicans who lusted after white women. They were born and raised to think as the system dictated which required absolute acceptance of white superiority.
In 1821, when Moses Austin, the father of Stephen F. Austin, filed a petition to bring slave minded settlers from the United States into Mexican territory it set the stage for the horrors that would soon follow. Racists often left out the word “slave” in their contracts or other paperwork to hide their true intentions. Moses Austin soon died, and making Texas a slave country fell to his son Stephen Fuller Austin who became the cargo man to bring slaves and the institution of slavery into Mexican Texas.
Baron de Bastrop, one of the most racist men in Texas, led the way in defending slavery in his efforts to oppose emancipation (the Texas town of Bastrop and a county both carry his soiled name). Bastrop apparently faked his “noble” background and was noted as a thief of tax dollars in Holland. He needed money, and hence his schemes to help the Texas slave-owning class to set up an empire for slavery in Texas. All of the Alamo “heroes” needed money as a result of failed marriages, failed elections, and debt and Mexico provided the opportunity to become wealthy. The efforts by these racist scoundrels would eventually lead to the victory of the slave owners over Mexico in 1836 that would make slavery a condition for a life of human suffering. The Battle of the Alamo and at San Jacinto paved the way for a white supremacist Republic of Texas Constitution.
David G. Burnet, an interim president of Texas in March of 1836, and while serving with the vice-president of the Republic, Lorenzo de Zavala said, “The causes which have led to this momentous act are too numerous to be detailed in a single letter, but one general fact may account for all: the utter dissimilarity of character between the two people, the Texians and the Mexicans. The first are principally Anglo Americans; the others a mongrel race of degenerate Spanish and Indians more depraved than they.” In a letter to Mary Austin Holley in 1836, Stephen F. Austin also chimed in with this racially loaded word when he said that the war was carried out by a “mongrel Spanish-Indian and negro race, against civilization and the Anglo-American race.”
