JUST SAYING: Ignorant and Subservient Hispanics are the Reason Extreme-Right Texas Republican Racism Continues
Posted on September 5, 2024
Texas’ Right-Wing Leaders Are Going To ‘Scary’ Lengths To Intimidate Political Rivals
The Texas attorney general is using search warrants, undercover operations and more to intimidate Latinos, organizers said.
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JUST SAYING
BY RAUL HERNANDEZ
Texas right-wing extremists like Ken Paxton and Gregg Abbott have consistently disrespected Latinos, viewing anyone with brown skin as subhuman invaders.
What’s even worse?
Some Texas Hispanics, whether out of ignorance, naivety, or sheer opportunism—vendidos—continue voting against their own interests, embracing MAGA/Republican Party.
I once lived just two miles from the Walmart in El Paso, where a racist gunman armed with an assault rifle killed 23 people.
His motive?
The false narrative that illegal immigrants were “invading” America, which Donald Trump and other white supremacists were pushing.
The gunman didn’t check for passports; he gunned down people based on skin color.
Twelve of the victims were U.S. citizens.
This massacre was the direct result of MAGA rhetoric, embraced and amplified by the Republican Party, Abbott, and Donald Trump.
Yet Paxton and Abbott still align themselves with Trump and these white supremacists.
Abbott even went as far as to place concertina wire in the Rio Grande, ensuring that the desperate and vulnerable, including children, would suffer serious cuts and injuries while attempting to cross the border. Trumped asked a staff member if they could just shoot “them” in the legs.
Yes, the U.S. needs strong, secure borders like every democratic nation.
But when a bipartisan bill passed the Senate, Trump killed it with Abbott’s support because it didn’t serve Trump’s political interests.
