Let me first state that this is NOT a bash of the state of Texas. It is a BASH of those who use slavery as a means to degrade and soil the true reason for our disagreements while being dressed in the cloth of Rightious Indignation. They are nothing more than hippocrates all.
Mexico was a country that had no slaves well before 1860 in fact it was against the law when in the 1820's Southerners rode west looking for new land to work after Jefferson expanded the country.
http://cdrh.unl.edu/opportunities/neb_digital_workshop/2007/texas_slavery/abstract.docThe above is a study of what took place and why there was a war fought for Texas independence. If you read the article you will notice there was a real explosion of slave holders and slaves up until the war for independence in 1836. Now just what is my point. These very same people who belittle the War of Northern Aggression and call us traitor and racist will at the drop of a hat yell "Remember the Alamo" and tell of just how brave Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Jim Bowe, and even the slaves who died at the Alamo were and what fine patirots and upstanding citizens and how its such a shame that we lost such brave men, one and all!!! All the while knowing that this war was truly a war OVER BLACK SLAVERY!
It is true that Texas, the Alamo, and every one of those brave men deserve our respect. Why? Because slavery was NOT illegal in the US at that time it was a normal way of life excepted by most and the law of the land. To presume to judge our elders of 150-170 years ago by our standards is but the high mark of hippocracy. I would venture to say if they came back and judged us in the same light they would call us cowards all! For the way we have allowed the Federal government to steal our civil liberties which those same ancesters shed blood and died so that we could enjoy those liberties they paid for in blood. We are wrong while they, on the other hand, would be very right. We are sheep and cowards. They deserve our forgiveness while we, on the other hand, should beg for ours.
