[potlatch]

I hope some other fellow Texan can back me up on this; About a year ago, in the same area as Jaspar, a white man was given a ride by 4 or 5 blacks in a pickup truck.

Apparently the white man agreed to buy some gasoline 'to pay' for the ride, but when they pulled into a service station, he jumped out and tried to run away. The men in the truck ran him down, killing him.

I waited to see it on the news [because of the Byrd case], but never heard anymore about it!!

[lonestar]

You have that right. The white guy had come to Jasper to buy drugs and was from a neighboring county or there might have been more about it.

A black man beat a white man to death with a pipe exactly one week before James Byrd Jr. was murdered. Did you hear about that?

We thought everybody had gone mad when we had three murders in one year.