Posted on Jul 17, 2015
Is Racism Alive And Well In The Lone Star State?
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I was disheartened after reading this story. My state, my beloved Texas, also known for ... its racism. We've discussed racism on RP, this week, as a matter of fact. I never thought we would be discussing racism In Texas. Not that Texas is so great that racism wouldn't exist, but, I hate to see that it still does.
"The stars at night are big and bright/ Deep in the heart of Texas..."
Texas is an immensely popular state. It easily ranks high among the states in our union with an international profile. Texas boasts three of the fastest growing regions in America along with three of the ten most populous cities. The state's low cost of living along with its thriving business community is attracting new residents seeking fresh starts and new opportunities for success.
Last week, Sandra Bland made her southward odyssey to Texas to begin a new job that was awaiting her at her alma mater, one of Texas' most storied historically Black institutions of higher learning, Prairie View A&M University.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-w-waters/deep-in-the-heart-of-texa_1_b_7815750.html
"The stars at night are big and bright/ Deep in the heart of Texas..."
Texas is an immensely popular state. It easily ranks high among the states in our union with an international profile. Texas boasts three of the fastest growing regions in America along with three of the ten most populous cities. The state's low cost of living along with its thriving business community is attracting new residents seeking fresh starts and new opportunities for success.
Last week, Sandra Bland made her southward odyssey to Texas to begin a new job that was awaiting her at her alma mater, one of Texas' most storied historically Black institutions of higher learning, Prairie View A&M University.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-w-waters/deep-in-the-heart-of-texa_1_b_7815750.html
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Yeah...everybody talks about Texas' high level of racism...except Texas. Why, you may ask? Because we rank 38th out of 50 states in hate crimes (FBI stat, not mine)...that may be one place to start looking. That doesn't mean there are 37 states better...that means there are 37 worse. (by the way, several of the 10 worst were in the NE)
That's what I can tell you from statistics...now here's what I can tell you from experience: I moved to a Southeast state in 2006. I'm here to tell you, my odometer told me that I had moved 1400 miles east, but my moral compass told me that I had moved at least 50 years back in time, based on the racial relations & tensions that I saw. Trust me, Texas ain't so bad.
That's what I can tell you from statistics...now here's what I can tell you from experience: I moved to a Southeast state in 2006. I'm here to tell you, my odometer told me that I had moved 1400 miles east, but my moral compass told me that I had moved at least 50 years back in time, based on the racial relations & tensions that I saw. Trust me, Texas ain't so bad.
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Those that dwell on race can find individual racists in every state and in every race.
I don't believe I'd take the Huff Post as an unbiased source; liberals hate conservatives and will go out of their way to slander them with the flimsiest of evidence.
I don't believe I'd take the Huff Post as an unbiased source; liberals hate conservatives and will go out of their way to slander them with the flimsiest of evidence.
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Capt Seid Waddell, Sir, What source out there is not unbiased? Almost every time someone posts a question from a news source, an RP member dismisses it as not a good source. I've had members tell me to stop watching Fox News, stop watching CNN news, stop watching NBC, CBS, ABC, Bill O' Reilly, and on and on. I'm just curious which news source is the best one to fit in with all of these different personalities and beliefs. If someone can do that, that's the news source I'll use, whether I agree or not.
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Capt Seid Waddell
SGT (Join to see), I take your point; however some sources are far worse than others. It is important IMHO to read a wide variety of sources and to take into account their individual biases.
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SGT Jeremiah B.
Capt Seid Waddell, my experience is that the slander aspect is alive and well on both sides of the aisle. I could point directly at a couple of active RP members who constantly call anyone left of them traitors, unamerican and evil. Everything is malice and hate, not difference of opinion. We really, REALLY need to move beyond that type of rhetoric if we want to move on as a country.
SGT (Join to see), I think some are more biased than others. The problem I see today is that so many sources don't even pretend anymore. They openly spin everything to fit their agenda and get huge followings for it.
SGT (Join to see), I think some are more biased than others. The problem I see today is that so many sources don't even pretend anymore. They openly spin everything to fit their agenda and get huge followings for it.
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It's most everywhere, certainly not in Texas alone. But my observation, and I not about to apologize for what I see and hear everyday on the news, is that a great deal of the racial divide in this country has been and continues to be fomented by several infamously prominent members of the black community itself. It doesn't take a deaf or blind man to see who the most visible and vocal racists are in America today: Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama AND especially his wife, Eric Holder, Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings, Charles Rangel, Sheila Jackson Lee and, now, Baltimore's Sheila Rawlings-Blake and Marilyn Mosby, to name but a very few. Everyone of them a black Democrat, and everyone else afraid to call them out for what they are. There is still racism and racists in this country, but some of the most despicable kind are those that earn their living off it.
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SCPO (Join to see)
SGT (Join to see) - And he, and every Al Sharpton like him, gets away with it because of what they are, not who they are. Try calling them on the carpet!!!
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SCPO (Join to see), Yes Sir, nobody messes with this radical. It would take up too much time and money to get anywhere near a court building. They just let him ran rant and rave, and collect his fees. I must say though, one time a few years ago, a black man's family were missing and he did get the dad to admit he killed them, and he showed the authorities where the bodies were. I don't know if Harris County paid him or not, but my opinion is he charged someone a lot of money for doing that. I have no proof, but from what I understand, he doesn't do anything out of the "kindness " of his heart.
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I have read numerous books by and about Martin Luther King Jr. And this one of my favorite quotes made by him.
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