The event was organized and hosted by Representative Filemon Vela, featured a selection of some of the city's bright boys and girls reading short bios of eleven African Americans with an impact in our region.
TSC Trustee/Historian Tony Zavaleta was honored for his research and writings leading to an understanding of the participation of African American troops at the last battle of the Civil War at Palmetto Ranch.
An open embrace of white supremacy is racist and that should be as controversial as saying the sky is blue. Choosing to support a man who has repeatedly said and done and proposed racist things over several decades is a racist decision, even if you are poor and struggling from the opioid crisis, even if that man isn’t only a racist. The poor white people who chose to stand with rich, white enslavers made a racist decision. The middle-class white people who went along with Jim Crow laws and social customs because they were “protecting” their own children and way of life chose racism, no matter if they treated individual black people kindly in private. The rich white people who pulled the lever for Trump because they thought he was a good businessman—and didn’t give a damn about the awful things he had proposed doing to black and brown people, or had already done—chose racism over equality even if they had a black girlfriend and voted for Barack Obama.
ReplyDeleteWe know Trump is racist because of his words and deeds. This isn’t hard.
We are what we repeatedly do. On nearly every other issue, Americans are unafraid to call things as they are.
DeleteInsecure jobs, stagnant wages, crime rates, underfunded schools, an embarrassing health-care system - immigrants are responsible for none of these problems.
We do not have any African Americans in Cameron County, Jim. Where did Vela bus his guest from? That is what I say.
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