Most of the stuff Alex says about the holiday and how it's banned from being celebrated is complete bullshit. He's just using this as a prop that he's wielding to beat the audience over the head with the impression that white people are being repressed.

The Texas Independence Day Parade in Austin is run by a non-profit called Celebrate Texas, and in the previous year, they'd paid all the fees themselves, which totaled approximately $5,000. This year, the fees they would need to offset were $11,800, which they said they couldn't afford. The city wasn't keen to co-sponsor the parade since there had been a ton of requests for fee waivers, and they couldn't afford to just rubber stamp all of them.

23. It is also Texas Independence Day.