Is Lt. Governor Patrick Serious About Saving Texas Monuments?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. March 19, 2020
In the March 3rd Republican primary nearly 98% of Texas voters supported Proposition 7 which would prohibit the removal of historic monuments in Texas, including the Cenotaph.



The hateful and disgraceful behavior of Democrat House Speaker and her comrades at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address is clear evidence of what life in America will be if Democrats gain control of the federal government in 2020 and any time later.
There was a time when schools and businesses closed for the birthday of one of the South’s favorite sons – Confederate General Robert E. Lee, born in Virginia on January 19, 1807. This year his birthday was celebrated by only two Southern states, Alabama and Mississippi.
Progressive education reformers have turned quietly away from the failed Common Core Standards and are embracing white privilege and racism as their latest scheme. American education has become a radical left institution of identity politics that pits American against each other.
Thanks to Republicans, Texas will have no protection for its heritage. The House Calendar Committee chose not to schedule Senate Bill 1663, a historical monument preservation bill, for a vote in the final days of the legislative session.
General Land Office Commissioner George P. Bush sent a letter to the Texas State Board of Education about removing from the social studies curriculum standards the Travis letter and “heroic” from descriptions of the Alamo defenders. He argued that the recommended changes are not about “trimming class time” but rather about “diluting Texas history” and influencing what students will learn about our past.