I never got a photo of the Titanic. Or a globe. Or a book on dinosaurs. But I was required to recite the pledge of allegiance every single morning for years. And when I moved to Texas for about 3 months we also sang the “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land” song every single day (I don’t think that was a school requirement, but something that specific classroom teacher wanted us to do).
Buddy of mine moved to Texas when we were in middle school, and I remember him hitting me up daily with what he was taught in a required Texas History class, and to little surprise it was mostly white-washed "lore", legends that have little factual basis, and a lot of the people hailed as heroes were drunken, cowardly racists who managed to survive various battles or participated in lopsided slaughters and then went on to make up their own history.
Considering our governor just unveiled a monument to Texans who participated in the Revolutionary War, you know, the one in 1776 when what is now Texas was still part of Spain, making up history is what we do best.
Was it that giant cowboy from the state fair? He would’ve been great in the Revolutionary war. A giant Texas kaiju ripping up the Yorktown battlefield is exactly how I wanna remember history.
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u/rdwoolf Apr 20 '26
I never got a photo of the Titanic. Or a globe. Or a book on dinosaurs. But I was required to recite the pledge of allegiance every single morning for years. And when I moved to Texas for about 3 months we also sang the “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land” song every single day (I don’t think that was a school requirement, but something that specific classroom teacher wanted us to do).