What kind of evil, sadistic person would call the tears of a seventeen-year-old son weird? Unfortunately, the Republican Party has too many such creatures. But one could not expect less when they follow a person I use the word loosely, such as Trump, who enjoys demeaning people.
Until Trump’s nomination in 2015 as the Republican bearer, I had often voted for Republicans. At one time, I was a Republican precinct chair. With Trump’s nomination, I vowed never to vote for another person with an R in front of his name.
I am now a Democratic Precinct Chair warning Latinos who tend to support Trump that they do not know what they are doing. They don’t know that this country did not always give as many rights as we have now. I would walk with my dad in the 1950s as he tried to convince people to pay the poll tax so that they could vote. Our small community of mostly WWII veterans, both Black and Brown, voted the all-White school board out of office. We may have been the first community to do that in Texas.
“The West Oso School Board Revolution,” explores the transformation of the Molina-area school district from a segregated, rural Anglo-dominated political juggernaut into a community-run, minority-dominated school district from 1954 to the late 1960s. This chapter presents an example of black-brown coalition building that eventually resulted in the election of the district’s first African American school board president by a mostly ethnic Mexican school board.
Then, in 1963, along with other offices and cities in the State of Texas, WOISD experienced what one reporter called a “revolution.”62 The Molina ommunity held voter registration and poll tax drives that ended with the election of enough Molina residents to the board, giving them the majority. Rather than the four members they hoped for, Molina residents, all Spanish-surnamed, accounted for five of the seven seats on the WOISD school board. The new board made a number of changes on the first evening they met.
I remember one of those white persons who was on the board coming to talk to my father. He asked my father why he would even consider voting for an unintelligent Mexican or Black. My dad always remained level-headed and listened to the White man. But my dad was out there getting people to pay that poll tax so that we could get better schools.
So what did the evil Republican Tweet?
