Texas, Our Texas! All hail the mighty State! O Empire wide and glorious, you stand supremely blest”… This is the Texas state song. Texas has decided to push its conservative views on textbooks that will change the term “slave trade” to the “Atlantic triangular trade”. What??!! Ladies and gentlemen, these textbooks will be dispersed throughout the United States. Like Fleetwood Mac sang; “Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies, oh, no, no you can’t disguise.”
In my humble opinion, this is what is wrong with the United States of America. Be honest with your history. If you took people from their land and made them slaves, say so. If you raped and murdered the natives of the land you “discovered”, admit it and move on. If you stole and fought for land that Mexicans had until the mid 1800s, you can expect for future generations of Mexicans to not like you, hate you even. Admit your wrong, and call it what it really was, there were slave owners and slaves, spoilers of war, murderers, bible carrying swindlers, robbers of land, and yes, there were some good people. Don’t sugar coat a damn thing. That’s history.
Peace & Love
