Texas Independence, Screw Mexico

On March 2nd 2006, was Texas Independence Day. It's only celebrated in Texas, maybe by Dubya Jr. but anyway on that date in 1836 the Texans at Washington on the Brazos signed their Declaration of independence from Mexico. Recently Houston got an MLS soccer team and they named it 1836, the year Houston was founded. This is also the year of Texas Independence. But, it depends that the "Hispanics" are upset by that name.

Last month, the team decided to drop 1836 because its connection to the year Texas gained independence from Mexico offended some Hispanics. The revisnists historians are busy at work re-working not just American history but world history where anything European (a.k.a. white) is bad and anything non-European is good. I don't know why anyone from Central America would be offended by Texas winning independence from Mexico, so let's just call them Mexicans. Let me list the ways this upsets me:

• Can you imagine the British being "offended" by 1776?
• If it wasn't for Texas Independence and joining the United States 9 years later, do you think there would be a steady stream of Mexicans crossing the border to live in Texas because it offers them and their families a better opportunity in life?
• Did they forget the "Hispanics" or Tejanos that fought along side the Anglos in 1836?
• Why aren't they offended that Santa Anna, a ruthless dictator who ended his life in jail in Mexico, killed everyone at the Alamo and then burned the bodies?
• Why aren't the offended that Santa Anna was with a whore when Sam Houston attacked at San Jacinto on April 21st, 1836?
• I find hispanic women beautiful, sort of just threw this one out there.
  

This is ridiculous and it has been going on for a while now-revising history. Look, Texans are proud people and like it or not these events shaped Texas and made it what it is today. They have a place being celebrated. I would accuse them of being sore losers, except no one was born when this happened and they are benefiting from the result. Viva la Texas!