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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums“Racism isn’t limited to Texas — we’re just more out and proud with it”
A Texas city council members remarks blaming those blacks for local issues fit in with a larger pattern of Republican efforts to stifle Black constituencies, a Democratic Party official told MSNBC host Michael Eric Dyson.
Racism isnt limited to Texas were just more out and proud with it, Sarah Slamen, field director for her partys offices in Fort Bend County, told Dyson. We just dont segregate and live apart from each other like they do in the Northeast. In the South, were open with it.
As The Raw Story reported earlier this week, officials in La Marque censured council member Connie Strube after she was caught on tape saying the citys school system would not improve until you get those blacks off the school board.
Strube has refused to resign and defended her remarks as evidence of her honest opinion, prompting the rest of the council to commission an outside investigation. But while residents have criticized the use of city funds for that kind of probe, Slamen denounced it as unnecessary.
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