One Sister on YouTube named Ashley Thee Barroness told the truth about the real history of Remember the Alamo. I heard this truth many years ago. Centuries ago, Texas and Southwestern America was filled with Native Americans. By 1821, Mexico had gained its independence from Spain. Back then, Mexico included Texas, California, Utah, New Mexico, and other regions. Texas was in the frontier, and Comanche raids occurred. Back then, Mexico failed to get much of its citizens to move into Texas because of the raids. So, Mexico invited American settlers to live in Texas for cheap, large lands. Many settlers agreed to do this. The deal is that the settlers must follow Mexican law and be Mexican citizens, including converting to Catholicism. I don't agree with forcing people to convert to Catholicism if they don't want to be Catholic, but the settlers should follow Mexican law. Thousands of American settlers came to Texas. By the 1830s, Mexican settlers outnumbered Mexican settlers (nearly 10 to one). In 1829, Mexico abolished slavery. The President who signed the decree was Vicente Guerrero (who was a man of black African descent). The Texas settlers protested the banning of slavery in Texas so hard that they got themselves exempted from the decree which was wrong.
The settlers forced enslaved people to call themselves "indentured servants" for 99 years, including a younger Sister named Clarissa. Then, Mexico banned further American immigration into Texas by 1830. Ironically, these settlers were undocumented immigrants, but many of the same far-right Texas MAGA members dehumanize undocumented immigrants today. In 1835, Santa Anna tore up Mexico's federal Constitution and centralized power under himself. People across Mexico rebelled against Santa Anna's rule, not just Texans. The Texas Revolution started in 1835. The Texas Revolution was more than about criticizing Santa Anna. It was about the settlers maintaining slavery in Texas. The Alamo was a slave market before it was a battlefield. At Goliad, Santa Ana allowed hundreds of prisoners executed after the surrendered. The final San Jacinto battle was the beginning of the end of the Texas Revolution. The result was that Texas became an Independent Republic. The Texas Constitution of 1836 made slavery permanent, and its Congress banned people from being free. No free black people could live in Texas without Congressional approval. Tejano's Mexican Texans fought for Texas' independence. Most of them weren't fighting for a slave republic but for the end of Santa Ana's dictatorship. They wanted Mexico's constitution back. Many settlers ran many Tejanos out of Texas. Texas wanted to join America immediatley and the USA said no for 9 years, because of political reasons. In 1845, America allowed Texas as a slave state. Mexico never accepted Texas's independence. President Polk and Mexico dispute land that determined the border between Texas and Mexico. This dispute evolved into the Mexican American war. Polk accused Mexico of invading America, and Mexico accused America of stealing lands. Abraham Lincoln demanded Polk said must show the land where American blood was spilled, and Lincoln called the war unconstitutional and unnecessary. America won the Mexican American War, and via the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 allowed America to get a large part of Mexican lands in California, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, etc. Even Ulysess S. Grant said that it was one of the most unjust wars, and he fought in the Mexican-American war. Courts stripped the grants against Mexican people after America promised them compensation via the treaty. Now, we know the truth.
Russell Westbrook retiring from the NBA represents the start of the end of an era. He is a Millennial who played basketball with fearlessness and intensity. He loved the sport with his agility and explosiveness, being one of the greatest point guards in NBA history. He was born and raised in Los Angeles with a family and great friends. Westbrook also had a very successful basketball career by earning NBA Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) during his 2016-2017 season, being a two-time NBA scoring leader, and being a back-to-back NBA All-Star Game MVP. Westbrook is one of three players in the NBA to average a triple-double for a season, feat he achieved four times and is the all-time NBA leader in career triple-doubles. In 2021, Russell Westbrook was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. He also earned a gold medal for the men's USA basketball team during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. Since 2012, he started the Russell Westbrook Why Not? Foundation, which promotes community-based education and family service programs while pushing the younger generation to be self-confident. Therefore, his career should inspire others to achieve excellence in their own lives in whatever field that they desire to be involved in.
The conditions on the USS Lincoln deteriorated so badly that one sailor jumped off the ship because of mental health issues. The sailor's wife said she was not contacted for 4 days after the incident. Many sailors on the USS Lincoln complained of a lack of food, soap, detergent, and other hygiene supplies. They have worked long hours, and many of them are fatigued. This racist Hegseth is not doing enough to solve this problem. Yes, Hegseth is a racist by stripping black history information from military websites and firing qualified black people for no legitimate reason (under the guise of DEI). He has fired qualified women too. Hegseth should be more concerned with respecting soldiers' dignity, rights, and basic sanitation resources, and humanity than with testosterone. This goes on while the unjust Iranian War continues.
According to AP and other sources, ICE plans to equip ICE agents with gloves that can deliver electric shock. This will come as ICE their "enforcement duties." This device is called a Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter or GLOVE. This is found in a note published on Monday by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These gloves can produce up to 380 volts of electricity, roughly three times the charge of a standard U.S. power outlet. This plan has been opposed by civil liberty groups and immigration rights groups like the ACLU (or the American Civil Liberties Union). Such devices are unnecessary as the vast majority of immigrants, regardless of status, are not violent, felonious criminals. The GLOVE devices can deliver shocks as frequent as 30 pulses per second. Even a user manual on the device recommends not using the device on elderly people, small children, pregnant women, and severely disabled human beings. The manual said that an additional officer must be present to restrain the person who is shocked while the gloves are being used. ICE has been very brutal with some of their members assaulting people, falsely arresting innocent people (including American people), and killing people (both undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens). The GLOVE device is being used by ICE by making sure that they continue to violate human rights and act as a police state system without accountability.
By Timothy
