Wrote Dawn Buckingham, the Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, in a letter discussed at a WaPo article titled "Republican overseeing Alamo renovation ousted after ‘woke’ social media post/Kate Roger, a Republican, has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against state officials after a social media post and PhD dissertation led to her losing the job of overseeing a massive renovation of the Texas landmark" (gift link).
And here's what Rogers had written in her 2023 PhD dissertation: “Personally, I would love to see the Alamo become a beacon for historical reconciliation and a place that brings people together versus tearing them apart, but politically that may not be possible at this time.”
(The headline says "Roger," but the rest of the article says "Rogers," which I believe is correct.)
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Those who do not remember the Alamo are destined to repeat it.
Just put the "Land Acknowledgement" plaque in the basement. h/t Pee Wee Herman
Can’t the Alamo just be the Alamo?
She will lose the suit. No one has a right to impose their own values on an organization especially after being hired to renovate said building, not rewrite it's history. Woke is quickly passing out of style but striking out at its hosts on it's way to the dustbin.
Bring both indigenous and cowbogenous peoples together.
Beautiful to watch Gramsci come to a screeching halt. CC. JSM
Bring who together?
Can they not read the room
What would we find if we dug a little bit into Kate Rogers' background? Would we find, perhaps, a leftist's history masquerading as GOP? It isn't impossible that she is a true Republican but I find it more likely she adopted to the title to get ahead in Texas politics.
You see with a proper English degree, or even just a really good Eng Comp teacher, that lady could have written her stupid social media posts with enough flair and innuendo to keep the old farts guessing what it meant.
Land acknowledgements have to be the most tedious writing and even more tedious public reading inflicted on our longsuffering population. They need a lighter touch and more character development.
Wasn't the Alamo the location that David Bowie (of hat and knife fame, not of Ziggy Stardust and "Fame" fame) et al held out (albeit ultimately unsuccessfully) against attack by indigenous" Mexicans?
Well, she offered to resign, and then resigned - so she should lose, because you don't get to demand things just because you change your mind.
On the one hand, I smell a fake Republican, like some of those here. On the other hand, there is such a thing as excessive Trumpism, and I begin to see signs of it from time to time. The Lt. Gov is a bit preachy. Be careful, Republicans. We left the 50's for a reason, even if you didn't like the reasons.
I keep coming across those 'conditioning' types of new stories, the ones that scream 'How Can Democrats Possibly Win Elections' and similar themes, based on their latest crazy sh*t. I'll tell you how: With votes. Kammy & Tim got plenty of them, or have we all had this fact conditioned out of our memories now?
Article here: https://archive.ph/CH73M#selection-457.0-457.189
Okay, now I'm listening to ZZ Top's Degüello.
AI : "Senator Elizabeth Warren has made no public statements about concerns regarding the writing, approval, and posting process of the Alamo Trust, Inc. (ATI) Communications Team."
Apparently not on Pocahontas radar.
I don't think that John Wayne and Frankie Avalon gave their lives at the Alamo for the sake of "reconciliation".
Historical reconciliation between and amongst whom, exactly?
Just this morning Razib Khan's substack update mail began
"In large precincts of left-leaning America, it has lately become commonplace for any official proceeding to be delayed until someone has intoned a somber statement of guilt acknowledging the locale’s legacy of colonization, its history as another people’s ancestral homelands (sometimes with such specificity as “since time immemorial”) and with homilies to such things as the “inherent sovereignty of indigenous people” who previously resided there."'
My favorite land acknowledgements are those intoned in a language none of the audience speaks. No better way to kick off "Le nozze di Figaro" or "Das Rheingold."
Politically it may not be possible at this time. I just sigh for the dummies who think of freedom and liberty versus slavery and oppression. /s your A**mo director
Mexico had just won their Independence from Spain a decade before they started encouraging Americans to populate the Texas region. They did so cynically, because they wanted a buffer between Mexican land and the roving bands of Comanches that would venture south seasonally, and leave smoking wreckage and desecrated corpses behind, but no horses or livestock. The tactic worked, but then the Americans started getting the upper hand over the Comanches with their weaponry and resolve, and that couldn't be tolerated.
Any land acknowledgements to 'natives' are implicitly hogwash because they fail to capture the history and legacy accurately. If your objective is to portray history fairly and objectively, then do that. Nobody will complain.
Where will they put the car rental counter?
Jim Bowie...
Can’t the Alamo just be the Alamo?
Alamo could be "more wings please".
Now if santa ana had been a touch less stupid it might have taken a while longer
Dear Indigenous People,
You lost. Nothing personal; it's just the lottery of life. Now take our fire water, M&Ms and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and enjoy them.
How did "reconciliation", a perfectly wonderfully innocuous word, become a congressional maneuver to semantically avoid being blamed for the consequences of kicking the can down the road.
That's people believe politicians as real jerks.
The takeover of the public side of American History isn't limited to The Alamo, by the way. A couple of years ago I was in Boston and we were walking part of the Freedom Trail. We started at the Old North Church. There are several exhibits around it, and gift shops, etc. At every one of the state-run exhibits, the staff were transgender. Every Single Staff Member was an obvious transgender, in various stages of modification. It made the experience really weird, because whatever history you were there to absorb was under assault by the undercurrents of in-your-face transgender social activism. It was unmistakable, that there was someone within the state hierarchy that had organized to ensure the public face of the Freedom Trail was going to be as close to 100% transgender as possible. Insidious.
Or; that's why people believe politicians are real jerks.
I hate Wokeness too and its not like the Mexicans were saints, but a lot of the Texas Revolution guys were in it purely for the cheap land and slaves. After Texas was independent, they even stole land from Mexicans who fought against Mexico.
Yah, there was a few big scoops of leftie revisionism in the Ken Burns last night, too...
Every Single Staff Member was an obvious transgender, in various stages of modification
It was like that at Disney World last time I was there...
So more a horror show, then a historical exhibit
"And his eyes turn sorta misty
And his heart begins to glow
And he takes his hat off slowly
To the men of Alamo
To the thirteen days of glory
At the siege of Alamo.”
Dimitri Tiomkin, sung by Marty Robbins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZgzXbPfpko
It's time for America to repeal the 19th Amendment and implement Sharia Law in the United States (please, God, get this ugly hag into a burka so we don't have to witness her freakish looks.)
It's time to put these college-educated old white women in their rightful place - and that place is not running our country. If we have to let the Muslims in to achieve this goal, then let's get to it.
Her job was to secure and promote the history of the Alamo. She had one job, and she chose to do something else. Her termination is justified.
"Dan said...
Jim Bowie...
11/20/25, 1:04 PM"
Baba Bowie!
How about a plaque that celebrates the Big Bang? Or plate tectonics?
Rogers can get rogered, her termination was “RIGHTFUL”.
tommyesq said...
“Wasn't the Alamo the location that David Bowie (of hat and knife fame, not of Ziggy Stardust and "Fame" fame) et al held out (albeit ultimately unsuccessfully) against attack by “indigenous" Mexicans?”
That “et al” includes around 10-15% of the defenders who were Tejanos: 1) descendants Spanish settlers and 2) some local Indian tribes who were not Comanche, but spoke Spanish.
On the Mexican side, Santa Anna’s army had a mix of Whites and Mestizos. Even if you look at the Mestizos as part Indian, they were not indigenous to the area. The army was drawn from Mexicans further south/west.
Any claim of being “indigenous” belongs on the side of the defenders at the Alamo.
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