Some snippets from this great article:
https://pjmedia.com/culture/bryan-preston/2021/04/16/at-the-alamo-a-tejano-hero-gets-his-due-n1440515
According to woke Texas State Historical Association chief historian Walter Buenger, the Alamo is a symbol of "white supremacy."
Buenger is not a Texas Revolution historian and may not have heard of the Tejanos who died at the Alamo fighting against dictator Santa Anna, his betrayal of the Federalists, his abrogation of the 1824 Constitution, his 1835 proclamation branding those Federalists "pirates" if they lifted a finger to oppose him as he sought to disarm them, or the several other Mexican states besides Texas that rebelled against the hated dictator during the same timeframe. Those facts' existence violates the revisionist narrative that wokes seek to create regarding the battle that was the crescendo of the Texas Revolution. The life-and-death decisions made by some Tejanos also get in the wokes' way.
One of those Tejanos was Jose Toribio Losoya. Losoya faced a choice that changed the course of his life and his place in history. He was not alone in that choice. As historian Dr. Jody Edward Ginn has pointed out, Tejanos native-born Texans of Mexican heritage in 1835-36 were statistically slightly more likely to fight for Texas' independence than were the Anglos Buenger and other woke historians claim were fighting for white supremacy and slavery.
Those Tejanos and Texians fought side-by-side as brothers. They had intermarried families. Shared neighborhoods and towns. A shared fate.
Losoya bears two distinctions. The first is that he was a Tejano, not Anglo or American as were many of the famous revolutionaries such as Sam Houston (who would later find himself deposed as governor for opposing secession from the Union). The second is that Losoya was not only born in Texas, he was born in the Alamo itself when it was a neighborhood and Spanish military outpost. He was born there and grew up there in a little house on the compound's southwest corner.
Losoya faced a choice then: remain with Mexico, which appeared to be the far stronger military power and in whose military he served, or fight for Texas in its rag-tag, mostly disorganized militia.
Losoya chose the latter. He could probably have escaped at any point after Santa Anna lay siege to the Alamo on February 23, 1836. Santa Anna had promised to be lenient with Tejanos, while also promising to treat all the Anglos as pirates execution. Losoya could have slipped through enemy lines and provided Santa Anna with intelligence about the men and materiel inside the fort. But they were his friends.
Jose Toribio Losoya may have been the last man standing to defend the Alamo, a Tejano. For what was he fighting and did he die? "White supremacy"?
Woke historians must pretend Jose Toribio Losoya didn't exist. He doesn't serve their narrative that race and slavery were at the heart of the revolution, when neither were. Federalism, dictatorship, betrayal, and loyalty were at the heart of the revolution.
These heroes all deserve their due. Woke history would write them out of time.
Losoya did exist, he died for Texas, and now there is an exhibit on Alamo Plaza dedicated to him in the shape of both his home and the ramp from which Travis set forth the meaning of the word "Texan" with a single cannon blast. Losoya was there with him that day. He fought long after Travis fell. With this exhibit, Jose Toribio Losoya finally gets his due and his story stands where he stood for Texas.
https://pjmedia.com/culture/bryan-preston/2021/04/16/at-the-alamo-a-tejano-hero-gets-his-due-n1440515
According to woke Texas State Historical Association chief historian Walter Buenger, the Alamo is a symbol of "white supremacy."
Buenger is not a Texas Revolution historian and may not have heard of the Tejanos who died at the Alamo fighting against dictator Santa Anna, his betrayal of the Federalists, his abrogation of the 1824 Constitution, his 1835 proclamation branding those Federalists "pirates" if they lifted a finger to oppose him as he sought to disarm them, or the several other Mexican states besides Texas that rebelled against the hated dictator during the same timeframe. Those facts' existence violates the revisionist narrative that wokes seek to create regarding the battle that was the crescendo of the Texas Revolution. The life-and-death decisions made by some Tejanos also get in the wokes' way.
One of those Tejanos was Jose Toribio Losoya. Losoya faced a choice that changed the course of his life and his place in history. He was not alone in that choice. As historian Dr. Jody Edward Ginn has pointed out, Tejanos native-born Texans of Mexican heritage in 1835-36 were statistically slightly more likely to fight for Texas' independence than were the Anglos Buenger and other woke historians claim were fighting for white supremacy and slavery.
Those Tejanos and Texians fought side-by-side as brothers. They had intermarried families. Shared neighborhoods and towns. A shared fate.
Losoya bears two distinctions. The first is that he was a Tejano, not Anglo or American as were many of the famous revolutionaries such as Sam Houston (who would later find himself deposed as governor for opposing secession from the Union). The second is that Losoya was not only born in Texas, he was born in the Alamo itself when it was a neighborhood and Spanish military outpost. He was born there and grew up there in a little house on the compound's southwest corner.
Losoya faced a choice then: remain with Mexico, which appeared to be the far stronger military power and in whose military he served, or fight for Texas in its rag-tag, mostly disorganized militia.
Losoya chose the latter. He could probably have escaped at any point after Santa Anna lay siege to the Alamo on February 23, 1836. Santa Anna had promised to be lenient with Tejanos, while also promising to treat all the Anglos as pirates execution. Losoya could have slipped through enemy lines and provided Santa Anna with intelligence about the men and materiel inside the fort. But they were his friends.
Jose Toribio Losoya may have been the last man standing to defend the Alamo, a Tejano. For what was he fighting and did he die? "White supremacy"?
Woke historians must pretend Jose Toribio Losoya didn't exist. He doesn't serve their narrative that race and slavery were at the heart of the revolution, when neither were. Federalism, dictatorship, betrayal, and loyalty were at the heart of the revolution.
These heroes all deserve their due. Woke history would write them out of time.
Losoya did exist, he died for Texas, and now there is an exhibit on Alamo Plaza dedicated to him in the shape of both his home and the ramp from which Travis set forth the meaning of the word "Texan" with a single cannon blast. Losoya was there with him that day. He fought long after Travis fell. With this exhibit, Jose Toribio Losoya finally gets his due and his story stands where he stood for Texas.
