Texas Blows Up Racism by Trying to Hide It
Apparently Texas legislators and its leaders have completely forgotten the Banned in Boston lesson, which my generation learned in high school. By trying to completely suppress the discussion of racism and our history of it in their grade schools by passing laws, they have made Texas a national embarrassment over racism. If you think that the economic consequences of their anti-abortion law was bad, this could be far worse.
Whereas the struggle for equality and equity in the US is mainly political, they could not have picked a more extreme topic of the genocide of six million Jews in the Holocaust to apply their so called “balanced” protective act to.
But wait, it gets much worse. While the news is limiting the “debate” to whether the Holocaust occurred or not, it goes much deeper than that, into the horrendous arguments for the Holocaust by Hitler. While the German public and world countries may not have known about the death camps, everybody knew about the branding of Jews, Crystal Nacht, their persecution even in occupied countries, and their attempts to flee, including to the United States. The counter documents to Holocaust information, begins with Hitler’s Mein Kampf, his party speeches, and the ages of European anti-Semitism even before that. We forgot about the Beer Hall Putsch or attempted insurrection in 1923, which sent Hitler to prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf.
The racism investigation is not limited to what occurred in the US before 1865, or for the Holocaust 75-80 years ago. It backtracks from current gerrymanding of Texas to continue its suppression of representation of its Hispanic population, where we covered its effects for the last decade. From there we have the current anti-abortion law raising transportation, financial, child care, and employment complications for those seeking abortions. The 2015 Texas data show that they were 37% Hispanic, 29% White, 26% Black, and 7% other, giving total non-White of 71%. Per 1,000 women of reproductive age, they were Black 19.8, Hispanic 8.0, Other 9.8, and White 7.6.
Then we backtrack to the voting restriction laws also meant to suppress the voting by minorities. Something that has gone on for 165 years since the slaves were freed.
This brings up the racism issue for two possible Texas presidential candidates, Gov. Greg Abbot, and fair-weather Senator Ted “Cancun” Cruz.
I’m watching MSNBC, and they are rattling these things off just after I write them. Texas gerrymandering just put two black representatives from the 18th and 9th districts in the same district, and cutting up the 30th district, to be completed in their legislature tomorrow.
But wait, oh, I already said that. We haven’t even covered the Texas overlord elephant in the room, losing Presidential candidate Donald Trump, who started his 2016 campaign coming down the Royal Escalator, and slandering all Mexican origin people in the US, and demanding that Mexico build the border law, a lot of which separates Texas from Mexico. The same Trump who will go down in history with his most famous phrase about the Charlottesville neo-Nazi demonstration: “There were good people on both sides.” The marcher’s racist slogan was “They will not replace us.”
After the election, Trump singled out Muslim immigrants, singled out China as to blame for the Coronavirus, leading to feared attacks on Chinese-Americans, and now debasing immigrants from Haiti. Haiti was the origin of black slaves in the new world revolting against the French in the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, 60 years before our civil war ended.
Again, the Texas State Motto is “Friendship”.
