FACT CHECK: There is Racial Bias in Texas
FACT CHECK: There is Racial Bias in Texas
Houston Chronicle, 6/22/06:
The House abruptly dropped plans Wednesday to vote on a renewal of the Voting Rights Act, a seminal law from the civil rights era, after criticism from Republican lawmakers from Texas. …
“I don’t think we have racial bias in Texas anymore,” said Rep. John Carter (R-TX).
“It would be dumb to discriminate,” said Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-TX). “That is the last thing anyone is trying to do.”
Report by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 6/26/06:
Texas leads the nation in several categories of voting discrimination, including recent Section 5 violations and Section 2 challenges. … Section 5 of the VRA, the preclearance requirement, was extended to Texas in 1975 due to the State’s history of excluding Mexican Americans from the political process. … Texas is home to the second largest Latino population in the U.S.
Unfortunately, Texas isn’t the only state with continuing discrimination against voters — help renew the VRA.
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What, who would have thought that people in Texas are racially biased.
/sarcasm = off
I personally know two different people that moved there, because they themselves were racially biased. Not to mention I-RIGHT-I.
June 27th, 2006 at 3:41 pmThere is no racial bias (lol, lol, lol) or any other kind of voter right suppression (LOL, LOL, LOL) so we don’t need a law to protect voting rights. But there is a huge problem with flag desecration that just demands that we have a rights-limiting Constitutional Amendment. Dorothy, click your heels!
June 27th, 2006 at 3:46 pmhttp://www.eyeonwilliamson.org has been all over this since Rep. Carter opened his mouth. Thanks for spreading the word. Also help out the Democrat running against him, she a military wife and mother, Mary Beth Harrell.
June 27th, 2006 at 3:47 pmCaption Contest:
Carter to all illegal immigrants” “Get in my belly!”
June 27th, 2006 at 3:49 pmI mentioned this before, if there is no racial bias in Texas, why doesn’t williams dress up as a black man and try to catch a cab in dallas. It wouldn’t be a problem would it?
June 27th, 2006 at 3:58 pm[...] Think Progress is the blog for the Center for American Progress. Here’s the link, FACT CHECK: There is Racial Bias in Texas. [...]
June 27th, 2006 at 4:00 pmWe’ll see how racially bias people in TX are when hispanics are the overwhelming majority in less than 10 years. Ever heard of the “Great White Flight”? I’m seeing it all over, when blacks and latinos with money move in, whites with money move out. Racism and discrimination have never really disappeared.. people are much better at lying about it now.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:07 pmRacism is being re-institutionalized. This is what so many feared would happen after the death of MLK jr., a backslide into prejudice.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:08 pmYeah, right!
June 27th, 2006 at 4:09 pmTexas is racist > the reason Bush has a ranch near Waco!
June 27th, 2006 at 4:16 pmCarter says there’s no racial bias in Texas because it’s never been a problem — for him.
If you look closely, you can see all four of his teeth…
June 27th, 2006 at 4:17 pmIn Texas, black people don’t
-Build Infrastructure
And that’s how good old boys make their money. Big, fat, juicy, highway Tom Delay pork dollars.
You better belive there is racism in Texas. It’s common knowledge.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:27 pmIf you hire a black person for your project the Mexicans will drive them out.
Of course there is a racial bias in Texas. Only white people live there, so by default there is a bias. How can you include minorities if the nearest minority person live in the next state over?
June 27th, 2006 at 4:27 pmYou aint seen hatred until you’ve seen a Texican within 100′ of a black person.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:28 pmI’ve got a couple of black Texans right here, Herman, who’d like to meet you.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:32 pm#13 – Too funny.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:35 pmanti-semitism also…
June 27th, 2006 at 4:36 pmDeputy Leader Dick’s hunting buddies.
funny video…
My new bosses at PBS assure me that Republicans are the Party of Lincoln. It’s true. If you look at Lincoln’s electoral map you’ll see a remarkable similarity to today’s red-blue divide. Only the colors are reversed.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:36 pmSpudge Boy – we are not all racists here. While I admit there are many here, many, many here, I do not tolerate it.
The thing that bugs me is when the young black men, mostly men, call themselves and each other the N word. They think it is funny that I hate that word worse than a cuss word. Cuss words are not derogatory to a race of people. I have rarely written a student up for cussing, I will write them up in a heartbeat if they use derogartory words against any race.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:37 pm“It would be dumb to discriminate. And we here in the South never do anything dumb. Everyone knows that!”
June 27th, 2006 at 4:42 pm15 — I am sure that they are imported in order to give the Democrats a voting edge. I would love to meet them, though, and show them the true way to acheive political freedom. Viva Los Republicanos!
June 27th, 2006 at 4:43 pmFor more background, see:
June 27th, 2006 at 4:49 pm“GOP Scandals Converge in the Texas Redistricting Case.”
Don’t worry, Herman-
June 27th, 2006 at 4:53 pmYour website will be just another floater in the toilet of obscurity. Watch out for tampons and cigarette butts.
I do not mind if my website, which is not at issue here, floats off into obscurity. Remember, it is your party that is doing the same thing.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:54 pm[...] UPDATE: It’s not a total surprise, but it turns out that there still is racial bias in Texas. From the link: Texas leads the nation in several categories of voting discrimination, including recent Section 5 violations and Section 2 challenges. … Section 5 of the VRA, the preclearance requirement, was extended to Texas in 1975 due to the State’s history of excluding Mexican Americans from the political process. … Texas is home to the second largest Latino population in the U.S. [...]
June 27th, 2006 at 5:07 pmTsk, tsk, tsk …
You beat the drum of scandal, you beat the drum of racism, you beat the drum of sexism, you beat the drum of homophobia, you beat the drum of antisemitism, you beat the drum of (fill in the blank politically correct cause).
Back at the dailyKermit, they concede that none of it makes a dent in the Republican political machine:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/27/132814/755
June 27th, 2006 at 5:08 pmHmmm, let’s see if I have this correct:
- You have given back your Freedoms
- You have abandoned science in favor of your particular brand of “theology”
- Your government no longer has checks and balances
- You are making/considering laws to discriminate against your own citizens:
a) Gays
b) Immigrants
- You are abandoning your poor and elderly
- You are the largest human rights abusers on the planet
- You are about to roll back some of your most important Civil Rights legislation
Gee, at this pace you should be returning to your Civil War any day now.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:12 pm“Unfortunately, Texas isn’t the only state with continuing discrimination against voters — help renew the VRA.”
The RNC caging lists gathered up by Greg Palast showed that in 2004 the RNC TARGETED BLACKS, nationwide, to the tune of NINETY-EIGHT PERCENT of the 3.1 million voter registrations they challenged in that year.
Yep, ThinkProg, this isn’t only a state problem.
When will we see TP coverage of these RNC caging lists?
Or is it just easier to focus on Southern States because then the discrimination in OHIO and elsewhere in the North is easier to ignore?
June 27th, 2006 at 5:32 pm# 27 — Good to see that you understand the plan, and are on board with our ideals and goals. Thank you for your support.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:33 pm#29-Herman,
No problem. I’m just waiting for you all to wipe yourselves out so that I can then go homestead on your west coast, I hear that it is very nice out there. If you don’t mind though, would you please accelerate your plans so that I can move there by the fall? I hear it is quite spectacular that time of year.
Vaya con dios y apurate por favor.
(I’m working on my Spanish so that I will be able to peacefully coexist with the other folks who will take over when you are gone.)
June 27th, 2006 at 5:46 pm#30 — Please remember that the current Republican party is the party of choice for those whose industrial ancestors won the civil war. In short, we won the first time, so why do you think that we will lose this time? Oh, and the only Homestead that I am concerned with is the one adjacent to Pittsburgh, where Andrew Carnegie smashed those union slugs flat.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:06 pmwhen in doubt always play the race card and cry racist over everything. The democrats are gearing up for the ‘06 elections so as usual the cry of racism will be used to try and help a dying party.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:07 pmOne of the main things I have heard is that the fact that when somebody votes they will have to show picture ID and that is racist! I am sure the dems do not want that so the illegal aliens will vote for them.
hey # 5 your so brave why don’t YOU do it. Want to knwo why blacks have a problem getting picked up?? people don’t like being killed and robbed that’s why. Not all blacks are criminals of course but more blacks per capita than whites commit violent crime. I know you are going to cry racist but I don’t care.
true.
Jules #19 Oh how very politcally correct! I’ll bet you write up a lot more of those evil racist white kids than you do the blacks don’t you? be honest.
I believe that liberals need to keep racism as an issue alive and well. they are the only ones that benefit from it.
LOL, I get your goat there moonbat? I fully realize why there is a racial bias, and that one exists. For homeboy here to deny one exists, is well goofy. I used the idea of catching a cab disguised as black as a way to discover if a racial bias still exists.
anyway thanks for a good laugh.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:12 pmCalm, Flaccid & Humanist — Herman’s site is a PARODY — a great one, too. He’s in character…
June 27th, 2006 at 6:30 pmI ain’t got no damn goat . like the boy who cried wolf . Are you trying to prove it to me or yourself?? You know what? it’s beacuse of people like you Krazny that racism does still exist,. You have vested interest in keeping it alive to make yourself look good and probably in your own delusional mind feel good about yourself and dep down you fell superior dontcha?? you are probably secretly the most racist of all.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:32 pmyou are probably secretly the most racist of all.
Comment by moonbat patrol — June 27, 2006 @ 6:32 pm
Yeah you got me moonbat, I am terribly racist. Just cause I worked at a place with whites, blacks, hispanics, asians and gays, and got along great with my co-workers. I am married to a women who is part japanese, and have friends of very different backgrounds, religious beliefs, and skin color. I am unsure how I help continue racism, but whatever you want to believe.
You are a sad,sad,sad little man.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:37 pmmoonbat – nice, cry about progressives writing about how racism actually still exists and there you go proving the point. I would rather be in a party that focuses on a real problem facing the US than a party that believes not burning a flag or allowing gay people to marry will say their sorry asses.
Unlike a person with low to no morals such as you moonbat, I treated all my kids equally, because they are.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:39 pm#34-Zookeeper,
I intepreted Herman’s approach as such, which is why I responded with similar (and rare for myself) humor, or at least I so thought. Although I am eying with desire your Pacific coast, which I find quite lovely and incredible. Paraphrasing a mate of mine, it would be the perfect place to live were it not for all the damned Americans. (intended in humor)
June 27th, 2006 at 6:40 pmHumanist try the Oregon, or Washington coast. Not alot swimming, but not too crowded either.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:42 pmTsk, tsk, tsk …
You beat the drum of scandal, you beat the drum of racism, you beat the drum of sexism, you beat the drum of homophobia, you beat the drum of antisemitism, you beat the drum of (fill in the blank politically correct cause).
Back at the dailyKermit, they concede that none of it makes a dent in the Republican political machine:
http://www.dailykos.com/ storyonly/ 2006/ 6/ 27/ 132814/ 755
June 27th, 2006 at 6:46 pmThe Oregon coast is beautiful!!! I would live there in a heartbeat. Although, anyplace other than Texas would look good about now.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:47 pmJason – at least progressives are actually trying to make the world a better place. All your party wants to do is divide the races, divide the haves and have nots, divide the heterosexuals and homosexuals, divide, divide, divide (fill in the blank of the next cause the repunblican party will attempt to divide).
June 27th, 2006 at 6:50 pmJules I sympathize. My wife and I moved from seattle to LA. we want to head back as soon as possible.
June 27th, 2006 at 6:54 pmKrazny – my daughter graduates next May. We are attempting to have everything set to leave here by the time she leaves for college. We want to go to the Portland area, but I do not care at this point as long as I am away from all of these raging repugnuts who consistently have thier heads firmly planted up their asses!
June 27th, 2006 at 6:58 pmYou will probably like Portland Jules, it is really nice, and not as expensive as seattle. My wife and I might move up there if she can get a transfer from her company, they have an office up there.
June 27th, 2006 at 7:01 pm#42, Jules,
Republicans believe that you can’t have a “colored blind” society if you implement affirmative action programs that force institutions to look at race, sex, sexual preference, etc. How is that divisive?
June 27th, 2006 at 7:43 pmFunny Krazny except for the asian wife part your situation sounds just like mine, except I don’t gloat like you do . Racism is a cottage industry for liberals,. they need to keep finding racism to verify their worthless ideals . nice try .
June 27th, 2006 at 8:25 pmNot really sure how I “gloated”. You called me a racist, I refuted your point.
June 27th, 2006 at 10:17 pmSee that is what is wrong with people like you Krazy. You did not dispute my truth. in your delusional mind you did but in reality you did nothing but prove that you don’t even know what you are saying.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:02 amyou are a racist because you are anti- white. At least to the point that any white man that dares disagree with you is racist. You put yourself on a pedastal of moral superiority that you do not deserve to be on.
liberals need to keep yelling racism. that keeps them viable in their own mind. Libs always need to have an enemy to fight to justify in their own mind thier self worth and viability. You close the converstaion on race because if anyone disagrees with party line the cry of racism comes up and the conversation is over. You actually do a disservice to the very people you claim to want to help. Keeping anybody who is not a white man in victim status is typical liberal strategy.
just like Jesse jackson keeping racsim alive so he can get a paycheck and extort money from companies.
Racial Bias? Nah, the conic white hat and the togue are traditional texan attire. And the smell of gasoline and wood smoke is our favourite Chanel’s fragrance, nothing else.
June 28th, 2006 at 2:33 pmSheesh. Toga, not Togue. Trouts have no racial bias at al.
June 28th, 2006 at 2:35 pmThank you moonbat, Racism is always the cry of a liberal who can’t win an argument on facts… It gets regurgitated so many times it has lost its zeal…
June 28th, 2006 at 4:53 pm#51 you know nothing of ichthyology dude. Ever hear of a brown trout breeding with a brook trout??
June 28th, 2006 at 7:03 pmI live in Texas. I was born and raised in Texas. I am an educated black woman. I won’t argue about being liberal, or being republican or anything else. Bottom line? THERE IS STILL RACISM IN TEXAS. Period. I deal with it, my family deals with it, my friends deal with it. To downplay it is insulting to the people that face it.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:35 pm# 54 sorry you have to deal with racism. I really am. But as an open minded liberal maybe you could admit that there are racists of all colors and it is not exclusively white v. black racsim. A-holes come in all stripes and colors and until we move beyond the standard victimization regimin and have an honest discussion where everyone is free to air their views without repercussion racism will always exist. The brick wall that is the current debate about race in america is counterproductive to getting anything done and of course nobody is happy. Ask yourself this: who really wins if the races are pitted against one another?? Follow the money and class issue and ask some objective questions. Who benefits most from discontent and division?
June 28th, 2006 at 10:29 pmI have my opinions and observations but I will not now go into depth other than to say that I strongly believe that there are certain people and entities that do benefit from keep division in place in our society. Think of it in these basic terms: if we are fighting each other we will too busy to fight the real enemy within.
#55, you will get no argument from me there. There are times when racism is used as a ploy to ‘put us in our place’ so to speak. There are times when the race card is used as a crutch. It’s also true that racism exists between races other than blacks and whites. However I only speak from experience, and my experiences have involved mostly whites. Are ALL white Texans racist? Absolutely not. And a person would have to be a fool to think so. But I have to say there is a majority of prejudice within our state that sometimes gets swept under the rug.
June 29th, 2006 at 5:17 pmI moved here to Dallas (one year down, two to go) for job reasons, and I must say that it really is pretty racist. At least a lot of the people I have met are racist since I can not generalize to the total population of Texas from my small sample size. I have made the following observations though:
1. It does not matter the race of the person here, the fact that they live here is enough. They are probably racist. Case in point. I am white, I had two friends, one black and one Asian. We went for a 6 mile hike and the whole time I listened to a conversation about how awful whitey is. Another example, a hispanic friend of mine told me to go to the black car wash rather then the Mexican car wash because they do a better job.
2. There seems to be a pecking order amongst hispanics with Mexicans at the bottom. The hispanic friend of mine was talking trash about Mexicans (she is from South America) until I told her that I have reliatives in Mexico.
Well, I no longer have any friends because I couldn’t handle the occasional racist humor. So I spend my time on the internet. Oh well, only two years left.
July 1st, 2006 at 3:36 pmMulticultural and Multiracial societies are nothing but trouble: constant bickering, strife and violent outbreaks from time-to-time. Ethnically-homogenous societies are more stable and happy.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:20 am[...] John Carter thinks he has a lifetime appointment to Congress. Now that he’s in a nice comfy “DeLay drawn district” he thinks he not longer has to present himself to his constituents at election time. That is an affront to what the founders intended, which is the Republicans main platform these days. It would be nice to see Mr. Carter show up to a debate so he couldfurther explain some of what he has said and done over his last term in office. Referring to Tom DeLay as being like a WW I lieutenant should disqualify him, not to mention his idiotic defense for delaying the renewal of the Voting Rights Act , what he said about racism in Texas , and his comments on Social Security and abortion. His lack of rhetorical skills being another reason he won’t debate. [...]
September 15th, 2006 at 11:49 amRacism in East Texas
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Author: Jim Lane
People’s Weekly World Newspaper
The four white men who beat an African American unconscious and left him for dead near Linden, Texas, received incredibly light sentences from an all-white jury on May 13. Two received a plea-bargained sentence of 30 days. The jury awarded the other two suspended sentences, but the presiding judge added a 30-day sentence for one and 60 days for the other. All four received fines, the maximum being $4,000. The victim suffered brain injury and cannot walk unassisted or carry out other normal functions. Yet, East Texans consider it a victory that the perpetrators had to stand trial at all!
NAACP representatives, speaking on KNON radio’s “Workers Beat†program May 18, said the white men were having a “pasture party†near Linden, about 150 miles east of Dallas. One went into town to get party supplies, and decided it would be fun to take slightly-retarded Billy Ray Johnson back to his friends as entertainment. During the evening, Johnson was beaten senseless. The men later claimed that only one of them hit Johnson, only once.
NAACP representative Bill Glenn said the four thought Johnson was dead, so they took his limp form to a nearby dump and left it on an ant bed. No attempt was made to help Johnson, but one man returned later and pretended to stumble over Johnson’s inert form. Finding Johnson alive, the man drove him to the local hospital, which refused the African American man service. Instead, they put him in a taxi! Johnson ended up in a nursing home.
Local law enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation refused to categorize the four men’s actions as a “hate crime,†which would carry an additional sentence. Instead, they filed only minor charges. Later, the jury dismissed all charges except misdemeanor assault against one man; the others were only sentenced for helping him hide the body.
Glenn said filing federal charges for hate crimes, civil rights violations, or under the Americans With Disabilities Act has become progressively more difficult since 1980, when Ronald Reagan was elected president. Dallas NAACP President Bob Lydia said East Texans were afraid even to talk with NAACP representatives.
Glenn and Lydia recalled other East Texas cases in which justice was very hard to obtain. For example, the young white man who chained H.W. Walker to a tree and burned him to death with gasoline served barely a year in juvenile detention. “He’s walking around East Texas today,†Glenn said.
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