SCOOP: The Texas Historical Commission removed books on slavery from plantation site gift shops. An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise. My latest for @texasmonthly
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-historical-commission-book-removal/
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly No surprise. Texas was proudly the last bastion of 'legal' slavery, and did everything it could to ensure no one but old white men and their useful tools would ever be safe in texas.
John Nau III is on a lot of boards, it appears.
For a beer billionaire, he seems to be very keen on converting universities & historical societies into Confederate apologetics and into pork & patronage programs for Republican donors.
David Gravelle
https://www.900lbs.com/portfolio/texas-historical-commission-360-degree-film
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors
https://www.vpm.org/news/2023-06-29/youngkin-board-of-visitors-appointments-republican-donors-uva
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/21/republican-2024-donors-00083670
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly That is to be expected from a Klan state
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly It's time for the U.S to give #Texas its independence.
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly Arghhhh. This is maddening. Conservatives are successfully whitewashing history. They are censoring what can be read or seen if it doesn’t portray White people in a favorable light.
So much for freedom of expression.
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly You can always spot the bad guys because they have to revise history to cover their tracks.
@cowvin @stevanzetti @texasmonthly
historical revisionism is a long trusted academic discipline done by literally everyone you have no idea what you are saying here
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly at first i read “amateur historian” but it’s not just that. holy cow she has a whole publishing press to whitewash history.
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly utterly ludicrous. No matter what the reason, the removal of these books just *is* political.
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly what do they teach at schools now? That African workers were promptly invited to develop the land together?
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly The depths they will stoop to just get lower and lower. What is the point of a historical commission that sanitises history to suit their own purposes. What's wrong with these people?
@stevanzetti Shshshsh... The US still surprises me with ever-fresh levels of anti-Blackness. @texasmonthly
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly 'He added, “to eliminate books about racism at slave plantation sites is like doing an Auschwitz tour and never mentioning antisemitism.” '
Wow
@stevanzetti @texasmonthly The Governor of Florida was prosecuted for having slaves on his plantation in 1927.
@JosephSmith3130 @stevanzetti @texasmonthly Pretty amazed by this accusation, I looked it up and found that Sidney Johnston Catts, indeed a former governor of the state of Florida (1917-1921) and a well-documented virulent racist, was arrested and charged just a few weeks after leaving office with the involuntary servitude of two black people forced to work on his plantation. He was later acquitted for this, and also various bribery charges, by an all-white jury (which all juries were at the time). He was later charged with counterfeiting money and won acquittal again. The good news is although he ran for governor two more times he was never elected again. The history is there, right there!