Julián Castro’s mother under fire from Fox for allegedly bashing the Alamo

 

After more than a century the Battle of the Alamo still raging, but instead of Mexicans and Texan settlers this time it’s Fox News and the Democrat’s new Latino star, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro.

 

English: This is a drawing of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. It was first printed in 1854 in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion and was reprinted in Frank Thompson’s 2005 “The Alamo”, p 106. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

A Fox News web site article draws ties between Castro and his mother, “a member of the La Raza Unida, a radical movement that defended the civil rights of Mexican-Americans in Texas” who apparently hates the Alamo.The article cites a 2010 New York Times Magazine interview with Castro and his mother, who Castro said is his inspiration.In the article San Antonio native Rosie Castro bashed the Alamo, a longstanding symbol of American courage to many Texans and a tourist hotspot.Here’s Rosie Castro’s quote in full:“They used to take us there when we were schoolchildren,”

 

Rosie Castro told The New York Times Magazine. “They told us how glorious that battle was. When I grew up I learned that the ‘heroes’ of the Alamo were a bunch of drunks and crooks and slaveholding imperialists who conquered land that didn’t belong to them. But as a little girl I got the message — we were losers. I can truly say that I hate that place and everything it stands for.”

 

In a tweet Washington Post’s The Fix reporter Chris Cillizza quoted Julián Castro as saying, “We grew up in a political household but we did not like it.”

 

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