Baldwin should know but must find it hard, nay impossible, to disseminate that Americans of this time period were indeed most aware and not unconscious of their race and the place in history that their race stood proudly in. Being born in Texas, having an ancestor who fought and died at the Alamo, I have personally seen the issue of race glossed over with pretty impressive words about Liberty and Freedom. Yet IF one looks honestly at what was said and done at the time during the Texas Revolution by BOTH sides one invariably is faced with a war between races and not just some bloody tyrant and not some DISNEY fantasy palatable history.

Further, much is made per Mexicans that fought alongside the Texians in the Alamo. So much is made of it that an Indiana girlfriend told me that HALF of the defenders at the Alamo were Mexican!!! A quick trip from Austin to old San Antone to the Fort brought some needed and disturbing reality to her. Nearly all the Mexicans that were in the Fort at first had left leaving just short of a handful to fight with Travis BUT just these few become huge in number and significant in importance to take Anglos away from thinking about race, their race vs that of the Mexicans and the Castillians who were of European stock who ran heard over the mixed breeds and native Indians.

And paraded about and waved like a flag will be San Juan Seguin a final messenger out of the Fort. John Wayne’s shameful mangle of history has Seguin as a significant character. Character he is! There is speculation that he played both sides. So reviled were any Mexicans that by the time of the Battle of San Jacinto, Seguin’s men identified themselves with playing cards in their hats least they be freely killed. The coming murderous blood-lust that followed in that pivotal battle welled up from a well founded racial hatred, a notion that Mexicans could not be entrusted to deeply held commitments to the Masonic creed and were indeed committed to the murderous eradication of whites, Americans, by sword or eviction. The execution of nearly all of Col. Fannin’s surrendered command of men at Goliad by the Mexican Army was a fresh reminder brought forth by those few who escaped.

Having worked on the Disney version of the Alamo from historical pre-production ends to the movie itself I could see the skirting of the issue of race. My suggestion to include a flyover of the execution of Fannin’s entire command was taken in and must have been dropped as this infamous deed is always dropped from movies. Ron Howard, the original creator of the Alamo movie project was not content to put on Mickey Mouse Ears and abide by the rule of Michael Eisner of Disney as he left in disgust for many well founded reasons. As good as the movie is compared to John Wayne’s it falls short and continues the soft blathering touch for Sam Houston and Mexican murderous treachery. The only consolation is that by the time the battle of San Jacinto is filmed in actual sequence, there was no budget left for showing in gross detail the Anglo forces butchering freely the shattered remains of the Mexican Army.

So here every year at Ground Zero in Houston, for the Mexican invasion of Texas, the ghosts of the defenders of the Alamo, Goliad and San Jacinto, must look in pained askance at the racial traitors, the politicians, the businessmen, the educators that have left open the gates of Texas, the Nation, to be swarmed over by enemies that they fought to keep out.