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1360: The Alamo, and battles over US history / Chris Tomlinson

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🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Writer Chris Tomlinson on his book "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth," co-written with Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford for Penguin Press. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623832/forget-the-alamo-by-bryan-burrough-chris-tomlinson-and-jason-stanford/

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I think it's back! This is hell.

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Your eyewitness to grief, this is hell and if you want to experience grief, just try to remember

0:49.8

the alamo in a way that won't piss off somebody. If you tell the story the Alamo is

0:54.5

depicted in the John Wayne movie, then you will definitely anger Mexicans in those of

0:58.8

Mexican descent. If you ignore the role the defenders of the Almo played in

1:02.3

defending slavery, then you will

1:04.1

tick off Americans of African descent.

1:06.6

And if you insist that John Wayne's version from the 1960 movie in which he starred, that that's actually true, then you will have every non-Angla within Texas and far beyond, up in arms over your embrace of a myth that actually makes the people fighting for slavery, the heroes, and that is not cool.

1:26.9

But what the Almo has become outside of those couple of weeks, actually 13 days in 1836 is arguably far more than it ever was in real history.

1:40.2

Now it stands for an identity and what it means to not only be taxon, but in many ways it stands for how many view themselves as Americans.

1:47.5

However, in these changing times when many are asking what it means to be a person from the United States.

1:53.0

There are a growing number of especially younger people and people of color who will no

1:57.1

longer put up with the telling of the Alamo myth and all of its racial

2:01.2

connotations, especially in the wake of the racialized police killing of George

2:05.1

Floyd.

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