Posted on 08/07/2003 5:54:19 AM PDT by hocndoc
Racism in Texas Politics? Exclusive commentary by Beverly Nuckols
Aug 7, 2003
From the Op-Ed pages of the Houston Chronicle on August 6, 2003:
To paraphrase one of the greatest civil rights activists of the 20th century, "We are sick and tired of being sick and tired." Fannie Lou Hamer uttered these infamous words during her crusade in the 1960s and 1970s to encourage political participation and the right to vote by African-Americans, Hispanics and other minorities.
We and our fellow senators are in Albuquerque, N.M., because the same important issue faces the citizens and state of Texas."
These words were written by three Houston Democrats: State Senators Rodney Ellis, Mario Gallegos and John Whitmire. They are members of a mixed-race, single-party gang of eleven Texas State Senators who fled across the border to Albuquerque, New Mexico in order to shut down the legislative process of Texas by denying the State Senate a quorum. The group, alternately called the Killer Ds, Chicken Ds,or AlbuTurkeys, panicked Monday afternoon, July 28th, and left the Austin Capitol Building to board two private jets provided by wealthy Texas businessmen, David Rogers, whose family owns the First National Bank of Edinburg, and Greg LaMantia, a partner in L&F Distributors for Anheuser-Busch in McAllen. They have set up camp in $150 to $200 per day rooms and suites at the Marriott Pyramid. The Chair of the 2004 Democratic Convention, who just happens to be New Mexicos Governor Bill Richardson, immediately sent State Troopers to provide round-the-clock protection so that the Senators would be safe to make statements such as this to the media. Virtually every news article printed, and most of the television or radio reports, about the attempted-coup-by-flying-the-coop quote the flock of eleven about the races of the voters in Texas, but never a word is said about the racial diversity of their own group, much less about the divisive nature of their comments.
Senator Leticia Van de Putte, who is the current Senate Democratic Caucus, former Chair of the Texas Senate Hispanic Caucus and the apparent gang leader of the runaways, engaged in similar rhetoric when I met with her at her hotel hideout on Sunday, August 3. (I drove and stayed in a much cheaper room in the same hotel.) Senator Van de Putte admitted that her constituency in the Bexar County area will not be touched by any of the proposed redistricting maps, because the Hispanic population is protected under Civil Rights laws and locked in by court rulings. However, the Senator with the Dutch surname repeatedly talked about her interests as Hispanic Latino and minority, while using the term, "Anglo" to represent those who oppose her and/or any group of people that she believed I would support. The Senator didnt know that her use of the word Anglo would offend me, because of her own bias. She also doesnt know how proud I am of my Cherokee ancestry, which gave me a great ability to tan instead of sunburn, and which made my eyes as dark as hers. And she evidently prefers to ignore the fact that 44% of Hispanic voters voted for the brown-eyed Republican Governor Rick Perry in 2002.
And then later, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram contains this little tidbit:
Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, recalled that in 1993, Senate Democrats were pushing a resolution to have state judges elected from Texas House districts rather than running in countywide elections. At the time, the House had a solid Democratic majority while Republicans were winning countywide elections in many urban areas.
When the resolution came up for a vote in the Senate, most of the Republicans had left the floor, which left the body short of the 21 members it needed for a quorum.
They didn't leave the state; they just left the Senate," Ellis recalled. "But they did succeed in shutting the place down, even if it was just for a day. I remember somebody asking me if it was like the Killer Bees (the nickname for the Senate Democrats who fled for four days in 1979), and I said it was more like the Killer WASPs. (emphasis mine)
As a citizen of the State of Texas and an American, I am sick and tired of the racist comments and views of the eleven Democrat rogues who have run away to New Mexico in an act of extortion against the Governor and Lieutenant Governor who are only responding to the will of the voting majority. These cowardly partisans seem determined to divide the State along racial lines and blur their own political agenda. They have waged a campaign in the media to deliberately imply that the States redistricting effort is an attempt to take the votes from certain racial groups. In fact, the actions of the Democrats - now and in May when 51 Democrats hired buses to take them to Ardmore, Oklahoma - steal the power of the votes of the majority of Texans: those who voted for the Legislators who did show up for work when they were supposed to.
Beverly B. Nuckols, MD is a pro-life pro-human rights Family Practitioner from New Braunfels, Texas. Beverly can be contacted by writing to feedback@washingtondispatch.com
And you also believe in the tooth fairy and the easter bunny, I presume.
Here lemme hep ya.
"You might as well say (This is makes it your statement, meaning your logic is flawed, your assertion that one should accept the destruction of democrats is the same as accepting the destruction of nazi's)that not everyone in the Nazi party was evil, I shouldn't turn my back on friends and family for being a member of the Nazi Party. Not all of them are destructive Nazis, not all of them understood the evil of some of the members of the Nazi party, so therefore should not be held responsible."
Now, please give me the proof that ALL Democrats in the world somehow believe the EXACT same things and ALL understand the "evil" of their party."
You explain to me, how not taking a strong stand, eliminates the ignorance of Democrats as to the evil their party has done in the past, continues to do, and will continue to do in the future to the destruction of the entire USofA as founded? Did everyone in the Civil War believe the same exact thing on each side? Did everyone in the Civil War have access to the same information? Was the destruction of the USofA on the line?
I equate Democrats to Nazi's exactly, neither are innocent of the destruction they wreak, intentional or ignorantly, the result is the same. An end to freedom as we know and love it.
I am not lazy enough or wishy washey enough to consider it just a little difference of opinion. Everyone is entitled to their view, does not wash with me. I don't believe in kid gloving people that are WRONG and have not thought out what their actions are causing, or don't care. A person must stand responsible and accountable for the direction their Party is taking the nation in, they must stand accountable and responsible for actions taken by those they back that lead to destruction. I will have no part of anyone that engages in said destruction for any reason, family, friend, or acquaintance. Democrats have all but committed treason and activated a Constitutional crisis in order to do nothing but win. They are criminals, the Democrat party is a criminal organization posing as a political party. I'm not for leaving it's members ignorant of that fact by playing nice and polite with their illogical, pie in the sky, point of view.
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