Boycott Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon is producing fifty second history shorts that they run between shows. Nickelodeon is not great entertainment. They are the epitome of electronic babysitter. The quality control on their history plain and simply, sucks on that network. So, I don't know what I expected when they present "history", but I, at least, expected history to actually be history and not political claptrap masquerading as teaching our youth.
Did you know that the freedom fighters at the Alamo were fighting for the right of the white man to keep slaves? That paragon of virtue Santa Ana was really a huge abolitionist, who was focused on freeing the slaves...
That's the part where my eyes glaze over and my blood pressure begins to rise.
The Alamo is sacred ground in Texas. All children of my generation had to take a semester of Texas History in school. The war with Mexico began largely because the Mexican federal government had revoked the constitution which covered the colonial area where the United States citizens had settled.
Nickelodeon was informed in advance that their slant of the history piece was leaning in the wrong direction. They chose to ignore the historians who disagreed with them and continued on anyway.
I supposed next the extremists will begin painting Santa Ana as a misunderstood saint in the history of North America. PFAH!
What's next?
Will the U.S. have to buy Texas retroactively from Mexico? PFAH!
The story of the Alamo taught me what the meaning of pyrrhic victory was. It showed me what a martyr was. That story taught me that some things were worth everything in the bigger picture of life.
Boycott Nickelodeon!
They have a captive audience sitting there waiting for the next show to come on and they are tilting a representation of history to tell the story they want to. Why is a very good question.
Revisionist history is bullshit. How many kids do you think saw this and assumed that since it was on TV, its the truth?
Boycott Nickelodeon!
It's a shame. I'm going to miss Spongebob, Jimmy Neutron, Danny Phantom, Fairly Oddparents and Kim Possible.
Bastards.
puff
Did you know that the freedom fighters at the Alamo were fighting for the right of the white man to keep slaves? That paragon of virtue Santa Ana was really a huge abolitionist, who was focused on freeing the slaves...
That's the part where my eyes glaze over and my blood pressure begins to rise.
The Alamo is sacred ground in Texas. All children of my generation had to take a semester of Texas History in school. The war with Mexico began largely because the Mexican federal government had revoked the constitution which covered the colonial area where the United States citizens had settled.
"I think it's a shame that anybody would take that approach," said David Stewart, director of the Alamo. "I think it's an insult to the Mexicans, the Tejanos, who fought for freedom and liberty in the Alamo as part of the defenders. It kind of slaps them in the face to claim that was the reason the battle took place."
Nickelodeon was informed in advance that their slant of the history piece was leaning in the wrong direction. They chose to ignore the historians who disagreed with them and continued on anyway.
Texas declared independence in 1836 when Mexico's leader, Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, revoked the existing constitution that allowed white settlement of the nation's northernmost province.
I supposed next the extremists will begin painting Santa Ana as a misunderstood saint in the history of North America. PFAH!
What's next?
Will the U.S. have to buy Texas retroactively from Mexico? PFAH!
About 200 Texan fighters held off thousands of Mexico troops for 13 days until Santa Anna finally crushed them on March 6, 1836. However, the siege gave other Texas units a chance to move east and gather for an ultimately pivotal battle near Houston in April 1836 that secured Texas independence.
The story of the Alamo taught me what the meaning of pyrrhic victory was. It showed me what a martyr was. That story taught me that some things were worth everything in the bigger picture of life.
Boycott Nickelodeon!
They have a captive audience sitting there waiting for the next show to come on and they are tilting a representation of history to tell the story they want to. Why is a very good question.
Revisionist history is bullshit. How many kids do you think saw this and assumed that since it was on TV, its the truth?
Boycott Nickelodeon!
It's a shame. I'm going to miss Spongebob, Jimmy Neutron, Danny Phantom, Fairly Oddparents and Kim Possible.
Bastards.
puff
posted by Mark "Puff" Anderson | 7:30 AM
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