Texas has a long history of racism against African Americans and Latino Americans, but the state has gone way beyond those reprehensible examples of prejudice and hatred.
Now they are making it ever more difficult for people of color to be able to vote in future elections.
They have also made abortion practically impossible with their newly enacted laws that prevent a woman after six weeks, long before most would even know they are pregnant, from being able to have an abortion, and already, the number of abortion providers has been restricted in recent years.
Also, all restriction on guns are coming to an end, which alarms law enforcement professionals.
And the state is making it clear that teachers of the social sciences are not permitted to teach about the true history of America and of Texas, the realities of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and about the extermination of native Americans, and other unpleasant truths, what the opponents call “critical race theory”. Instead, only a patriotic version of history is to be taught, which will hamstring teachers, and yet will not, necessarily, prevent students from learning the truth elsewhere, and wish to discuss it in classes.
As an historian and political scientist for a half century, if this author and blogger were much younger, he would be unable to “practice his craft”, teach truth and facts, and this is totally outrageous!
Lawsuits on all of these issues are essential, as Texas is undermining the rule of law in so many ways!
Tulsa race massacre is an example. I had never heard of that until it was mentioned on the news recently.
A new book says that the Second Amendment is not about guns, it’s about anti-Blackness.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/30/us/second-amendment-guns-anti-black-anderson-blake/index.html