Texas lawmakers want to end state holiday commemorating Confederate veterans

[EvilCat Breath]

I never said there was.




And Mexico is a part of America.

Which does not make him an American.

 

[pknopp]

Which does not make him an American.

Sorry, you win. He was European.

 

[Sunni Man]

Why not honor both Union and Confederate soldiers? Both sides fought for what they believed in.

Texas was a Confederate state and their soldiers that fought and died for Texas.
The other side was the enemy that invaded Texas.
Let them be honored back in the northern Union states.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Sorry, you win. He was European.

He was Mexican.
Here maybe this can explain it to you.

Why does everyone call people from Europe, European, but in the west anyone that isnât from the United States are Americans only. Why can...

Answer (1 of 6): Because there doesn’t exist a country inside the subcontinent of Europe that is itself called Europe. The American continent, on the other hand, has one country that rather unimaginatively chose to call itself ‘The United States of America’ - which was bound to get abbreviated to...

www.quora.com

There are more people in the world but Europeans and Americans.

 

[pknopp]

He was Mexican.
Here maybe this can explain it to you.

Why does everyone call people from Europe, European, but in the west anyone that isnât from the United States are Americans only. Why can...

Answer (1 of 6): Because there doesn’t exist a country inside the subcontinent of Europe that is itself called Europe. The American continent, on the other hand, has one country that rather unimaginatively chose to call itself ‘The United States of America’ - which was bound to get abbreviated to...

www.quora.com

There are more people in the world but Europeans and Americans.

Your article notes that the United States of America likes to take the word America for it's own but it simply isn't.

 

[Flash]

Third time for the Bill. Looks like it has garnered support from the Mexican American Caucus this time. A compromise could be to make it the Civil War Heroes Day instead. Just a thought.

Texas lawmakers want to end state holiday commemorating Confederate veterans

For the third straight legislative session, state Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, has filed a bill to end Confederate Heroes Day as a state holiday.

www.texastribune.org

Bet those "Texas lawmakers" are goddamn Negroes from the inner city ghettos of Houston and Dallas.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Your article notes that the United States of America likes to take the word America for it's own but it simply isn't.

No wonder so many others laugh at you.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Mexico is considered part of central America.

 

[JGalt]

Texas was a Confederate state and their soldiers that fought and died for Texas.
The other side was the enemy that invaded Texas.
Let them be honored back in the northern Union states.

When some people want to erase their own history like this, they've diminished themselves to the status of being the American version of the Taliban.

 

[Blaster]

Neither were the confederates.

Yes they were Americans.

 

[candycorn]

Third time for the Bill. Looks like it has garnered support from the Mexican American Caucus this time. A compromise could be to make it the Civil War Heroes Day instead. Just a thought.

Texas lawmakers want to end state holiday commemorating Confederate veterans

For the third straight legislative session, state Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, has filed a bill to end Confederate Heroes Day as a state holiday.

www.texastribune.org

Doubtful the holiday will be repealed. I'm surprised there isn't a movement afoot to have whatever they're celebrating about the hateful not-so-past be turned into a month-long hate-fest.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Mexico is considered part of central America.

Incorrect. It is often considered part of North America along with Canada and the US, hence NAFTA. Central and South Americans typically consider it part of Norther America (and are often snobby about its food).

 

[Mr Natural]

Yes they were Americans.

American traitors.

 

[MarcATL]

This is but a step in the right direction.

 

[JGalt]

American traitors.

Democrats have always been traitors, and still are to this day.

 

[Blaster]

American traitors.

Not traitors but people that believed in state rights.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Bet those "Texas lawmakers" are goddamn Negroes from the inner city ghettos of Houston and Dallas.

Mmmm...not racist at all are you? Also you missed the part about the Mexican American caucus, you know the majority of Texas citizens.

When some people want to erase their own history like this, they've diminished themselves to the status of being the American version of the Taliban.

How is that erasing history? We don't have General Cos Day.

 

[bodecea]

Why not honor both Union and Confederate soldiers? Both sides fought for what they believed in.

Yeah...con-federates believed in slavery.

 

[JGalt]

Mmmm...not racist at all are you? Also you missed the part about the Mexican American caucus, you know the majority of Texas citizens.


How is that erasing history? We don't have General Cos Day.

How is that not erasing American history?

List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests - Wikipedia

 

[Blaster]

Yeah...con-federates believed in slavery.

Slavery was acceptable back then. Stealing land from Native Americans was also accepted as normal.