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.
Rocco @ 2:33pm,
How dare you confuse us with the facts!
Aggie said...
“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.”
Part of the reason the US won the Mexican-American War so easily is the Comanches expanded their raids and destruction deeper in to northern Mexico in the 1840s before the war.
“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.”
The Mexican authorities wanted to confiscate the firearms of the Texans, including a cannon since featured on the Gonzales Flag.
Re : Land acknowledgements
If you think the land was stolen and you aren't doing anything more to see the rightful owners regain title than reading some purple prose periodically then you're actually comfortable with the status quo.
now this is awkward because the reconquista is underway, with the goal being aztlan, that mythical polity like wakanda,
People often wonder why you get so many RINO's and liberal Republicans in Deep red states. The reason is simple. The libtard and bush types know they can only get a position or win office as a Republican. So, they become Red on the outside while staying blue on the inside. Needless to say, they only keep the charade going to the extent they have to.
She should have got fired. Whatever the Alamo was about, it sure as hell wasn't about Negro slavery.
‘ Re : Land acknowledgements’
I’m always curious about who actually owned the land in question. Did the parties involved have a concept of ownership? Was it written down? Which system of measurement was used to survey the land? Was the land ever overvalued to receive a preferred loan rate from Deutsch Bank?
I love the meme style for Land Acknowledgements that I picked up on the interwebs somewhere that says you should start out quietly and somberly with the required contrite statements, but then break out with a big smile and shout “…and just look with we did with the place since then!!”
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 …
Nope. It was his second cousin Jim
Crockett had the hat. Bowie had the knife.
Go to the Alamo and look at the wall with the names of the defenders. Do note.. SOME OF THEM ARE SPANISH!!!! Yes Mexicans!!! Not all Mexicans liked the Santa Anna regime!!!
https://www.thealamo.org/remember/battle-and-revolution/defenders#sortByName
"Whatever the Alamo was about, it sure as hell wasn't about Negro slavery."
Slavery certainly was a factor in why Texans did not want Mexican governance and for their revolution. Not the only reason, of course, but it was a very real issue in the mid-1800s, to say the least, for Texas.
From the article:
"Rogers said she wasn’t involved with crafting the social media posts..."
"Wasn't involved" sounds kind of weaselly if you ask me, but anyway... she shouldn't be fired over her PhD dissertation. She should, however, be fired for admitting she's not in control of the organization.
I have my own land acknowledgment for guests where I thank the traditional owners of this land - my bank.
Aggie said...
"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 "
At this point, I would like to point out that the Governor of Massachusetts has appointed a trans-woman to head the state Women's Commission.
I would love to see the Alamo become a beacon for historical reconciliation
Not until they find Pee-Wee Herman's bike! (Have they even looked in the basement...?!)
As in all cases like this, I believe there is a lot more to the story that we are not told. We only hear from one side, after all.
Historical reconciliation is a mugs game. I would love to see successful examples of historical reconciliation imposed from above. Reconciliation can only happen when complaints about past injustice are either forgotten or so obviously futile that people find other things to do with their spare brain waves.
You can't impose amnesia, except by killing people. That's why nobody seeks reconciliation for the victims of communism, or the Aztecs, or organized crime.
Wokeness scandal at the Alamo!
Much more important than our demented rapist, pedo, traitor in chief calling for the death of his political enemies by hanging.
Yes, remember the Alamo…….
If I started making my property tax payment to the Sauk Tribe I would soon become the “traditional owner” of my home. So don’t believe the bullshit.
Filed under "Cancel Culture We Love"
If you think the land was stolen and you aren't doing anything more to see the rightful owners regain title than reading some purple prose periodically then you're actually comfortable with the status quo.
They can have it back, but they have to pay for any improvements made.
TBH, you were referring to autopen Joe Biden, right?
The surveys for my land and other properties in this area go back to Spanish land grants, granted from the king at the time. Some of the older, generational farmland of sizeable acreage still trace their ownership directly to those, through their ancestors. You can find the old surveys online. So, tell me: Do we honor the old king in our acknowledgements, since he was the vested authority that granted them, or do we acknowledge the Indians, who made no claim and formed no settlements - at least, until the king and the Catholic church showed up, with their missions. I'm always confused about this. How do you treat the tribe that was perennially passing through? Because that's the way it was.
Yeah, they give us back the casinos and land where they abuse children; become normal citizens, and then we can talk.
The talk will consist of them dismantling their mafia and makng "their people" get off the government dime. Win, win.
Tea Bag, use your real name or shut the fuck up.
There's a very interesting history of indigenous people owning slaves, brutally treated, and kidnaping and raping young white girls too. Tea bag? Tea bag?
Have you ever read a credible and vetted history book, hag? Ever?
There's a better chance for an affirmative response if you ask about "graphic novels".
Just sayin'.
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