Texans are amazingly unrepentant considering their belief systems. They speak their mind, no matter the consequences. Good. It provides fodder for people like me to crow about. Texas Tea Party leader: GOP doesn’t want black people to vote Maryalice Aymong 6:41 PM on 06/05/2013 Remember all the voter ID laws, restrictions on early voting, and limits on voter registration drives pushed by Republicans during the 2012 election? The story continues. At a Dallas County GOP event last month, Bishop John Lawson asked Ken Emanuelson, a Tea Party activist, what the Republican Party was doing for African-American voters. The progressive group Battleground Texas posted audio from the event. “I’m going to be real honest with you,” Emanuelson said. “The Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they are going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.” In Emanuelson’s view, in other words, the solution to lack of support from African-American voters is to have fewer of them show up at the polls. Read more on this story at: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/05/texas-tea-party-leader-gop-doesnt-want-black-people-to-vote/
More Texan racism: Texas cops fired after being caught on tape Morgan Whitaker, @morganwinn 12:34 PM on 06/05/2013 The city of Jasper, Texas, has fired two white police officers after video emerged that showed them slamming a black woman’s head into a counter top and wrestling her to the ground. That woman, Keyarika “Shea” Diggles and her attorney, Cade Bernsen, joined PoliticsNationon Tuesday to tell her side of the story. “I was scared, I thought they were going to kill me,” Diggles said on the show. More on this story at: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/05/texas-cops-fired-after-being-caught-on-tape/
