In Texas, a call to action against white supremacy | By Michelle García for CNNOpinion
Michelle García is a journalist and Soros Equality Fellow through the Open Society Foundations. She is working on a book about borders. Follow her on Twitter: @pistoleraprod. The views expressed here are the author's. View more opinion on CNN.
In many parts of Texas there are phrases rarely mentioned in polite company, white supremacy being one of them. Never mind the state's history of war campaigns fueled by a thirst for slavery. Never mind the once pervasive presence of the Ku Klux Klan on school boards and newspaper editorial pages and the savage lynching of Mexican-Americans. Never mind that it's still possible to see white police officers mounted on horseback parading a black man down the street by a rope.
Girl in El Paso fears going to school after it 'happened again' in Dayton 02:11Attacking Latinos is deeply woven into the genetic coding of the state that was built on the perception that some are more worthy to govern than others. In the 1968 history"Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans," regarded as"canonical," by some, author T.R.
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