Things are getting scary in Texas, especially in places like Lubbock and Abilene, which have been measure at the top of the list of most conservative cities in the USA. I think the irrational feeling of fear in Texas, about President Obama, is rooted in prejudice. Children brought up in such ultra-conservative cities, as listed above, learn wrongly by the age of 1 or 2, that Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities are not equal to whites, who are god's supreme race.
Although racial prejudice has gradually abated in Texas, since the early '60s, it will take generations for the old racial biases of the pass to work their way out. #-------------------------------------- Excerpt from NY Times Official Stirs Texas City With Talk of Rebellion By MANNY FERNANDEZ Published: August 27, 2012 LUBBOCK, Tex. — A hearing on a proposed tax increase had just started at the county courthouse here Monday when Grace Rogers, a retired teacher, addressed local leaders. Ms. Rogers said she supported the idea of increasing the property tax to 34.6 cents per $100 valuation from 32.9 cents to finance the hiring of additional sheriff’s deputies — with one reservation. It was that, she said, “it does not fund a paramilitary to create an insurrection and rebellion against the United States.” Her comments might have sounded absurd at some other time, in some other place. But these days in Lubbock, a West Texas city known as the birthplace of the 1950s rock ’n’ roll pioneer Buddy Holly, Ms. Rogers’s request was timely and appropriate, under the circumstances. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/us/lubbock-official-tom-head-stirs-city-with-remark.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120828 or http://tinyurl.com/8m5m5et #----------------------------------------- Regards, LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
