It’s Black History Month, and we just watched a Super Bowl. There were Black players and white players but mostly Black. And it was OK. I mean, at least people who look like me white didn’t go out and kill a bunch of Black people for getting excited about it. It wasn’t such a big deal but it used to be.
We exchanged sideways glances. It was a dubious claim, and the old judge we were talking to followed it with a glaring non sequitur. “I think he killed himself,” insisted 76-year-old former judge Alexander Nemer. “I mean, look at the photos. Part of the man’s head is missing. Something blew it off. There’s a picture
We exchanged sideways glances. It was a dubious claim, and the old judge we were talking to followed it with a glaring non sequitur. “I think he killed himself,” insisted 76-year-old former judge Alexander Nemer. “I mean, look at the photos. Part of the man’s head is missing. Something blew it off. There’s a picture
Fort Worth Weekly
Critical Race History in Texas
There’s no memorial to one of East Texas’ biggest civil rights champions, and we should all know why.
By E.R. BILLS
In late December 2015, Constance Hollie-Jawaid and I were still working on the final plans for the dedication ceremony for a Texas state historical marker commemorating the Slocum Massacre. The fight to get the marker approved had been grueling, and, on that particular day, we had traveled to Palestine, Texas, to meet with the marker effort’s chief antagonist, Anderson County Historical Chairman Jimmy Ray Odom.
Jimmy’s beliefs about the Slocum Massacre were almost completely contradictory to ours, but in conversation, anyway he was a straight shooter. Our historical and cultural disagreements notwithstanding, I respected him for that.
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