This. I grew up just outside of Waco and it’s not the best place in the world but it gets a bad wrap. Davidians and damn bikers screwing stuff up for everyone else.
I’m south of Waco near Ft Hood, I don’t see a lot of racism or any “ism’s”.
You’re pretty free here to do as you please and “live and let live” seems to be the order of the day. I’m pretty far from “conventional” and nobody around here seems to care.
I’ll tell you what’s racist, that waterslide video on page 1. Looks like a TV ad from the German Alps’ maybe 15-20 years ago!
I Kid I Kid
Good, because we have too many people here already.
Geography lesson: The City of Austin is in Travis County, not Austin County where the traffic stop was.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/dashcam-video-shows-local-lawmakers-traffic-stop/34561712
Representative Garnet Coleman, of Houston, said he was “treated like a child,” by an Austin County deputy sheriff during a traffic stop near Sealy.
But the Austin County sheriff has released dashcam video of the incident, saying he’s willing to let the public decide if his deputy did anything wrong.
[b]Coleman recounted the incident last week as he presided over a hearing by the Texas House Committee on County Affairs on the death of Sandra Bland. Her death last month in the Waller County Jail was ruled a suicide by hanging. It came after she was arrested during a contentious traffic stop by a Texas state trooper on July 10 in Prairie View.
During the hearing, Coleman said he was treated with rudeness and disrespect after the Austin County deputy stopped him on I-10 outside Seal[/b]
A little bit more of an explanation concerning the details.
I really hope this guy gets called to answer for this, but I have no doubt the Deputy had his life turned upside down for a bit over this.
All the evidence shows that this Lady hung herself in jail with a trash bag as a noose, the toxicology report shows that at the time of her death She had what would be in Colorado and Washington States three times the legal limit of Marijuana in here system to be able to drive, mind you, that was found during the autopsy days later.
Mr. Coleman’s weak example is clearly not an example of a racist Cop, it look to me more like a guy who got off lucky and is now doing some political grandstanding.
At the very least he needs to be removed from presiding over this hearing.
One of the best responses I’ve seen to the “Do you know who I am???” type intimidation is to simply take them literally and treat it as a case of amnesia and lost identity. Of course this was in a retail store context, but it could be used in other settings.
Employee: “I’m sorry sir, we can’t do that.”
Jerk: angrily says “Do you know who I am???”
Employee: picks up intercom, announces to store “Attention shoppers, we have a older gentleman in housewares who does not know who he is. If you think you might know him, please come to aisle 9.”
I actually know this officer and I have NEVER known him to talk down to anyone, ever. He is one of the nicest guys you would ever meet. He is also not one to be intimidated by the whole “do you know who I am” bit.
I thought he did a mighty fine job.
I’m glad the department stood up to the State Representative and got out in front of this story and posted the video.
It’s a damned shame this was all fabricated and put out there in the hopes of making some sort of name for the State Rep.
hahahahah meant it as could not stand to live in such a liberal part of any state 
well I keep hearing about issues in Austin with liberal problems no idea about the county lines etc… ?
this driver is most likely a liberal ? the way he handled it
just read a article folks were shocked to see Bush at the court house for Jury duty and did not pull the YOU KNOW WHO I AM I dont need to show up attitude 
and hung out for 3-4 hours till called and did not pull the put me in front of the line etc…
then again like most Texans I meet were from there they say the jerks are from outside and movedin ? same as the islands I guess most were cool but so many jerks came in and ruined much of it
heck most mainland folks say I am done with vacation and heading back to the states hahahaha
Most cities in Texas follow the same pattern.
The inner city areas of Austin, Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio and Houston are run by liberals. Liberals occupy the mayor’s office and city council and many inner city Reps are leftists…like this Garnet Coleman character.
However, the outlying areas of these cities contain mostly conservative types. This is where we get leaders like Ted Cruz. Also, the largest Tea Party groups in America are located in Houston and Dallas suburbs. The IRS scandal, ala Lois Lerner, happened to a Houston suburban Tea Party group.
The inner city areas of Austin HAVE been infiltrated by many carpetbaggers coming from CA and the northeast. This is quickly changing the casual cool hippie/cowboy image of Austin. It is sad to see Austin changing like this.
good info
curious if you ever think they will take more and more control ? or are they kinda tapped out as to what they can take over ?
maybe thinking so many want to be in the inner city parts and dont want to spread out to the country so the liberal side wont grow as much ?
Nope.
This situation with liberals running the inner cities here has been going on for decades. the days of Democrats grabbing up the governor’s office, lt. governor’s office, atty general or our Senate seats is very…VERY far away.
In fact, every election cycle, their candidates for governor, lt. governor and Senate seats get worse and worse! That Wendy Davis character was a total embarrassment.
So nope…even with the influx of illegals and CA and NY people, I don’t see Texas going blue anytime soon. Oh there is always lots of talk about it, come election seasons but the numbers don’t bear it out.
Many of the CA and NY transplants I meet are conservatives that had enough of the morons running their states. Many I know voted for Ted Cruz and Gregg Abbott.
Hey, I’m a bigshot politician and I’m black.
You, yeah you white boy, can’t win.
Plus, if I want to drive fast enough to break the sound barrier, I can.
Get it honkey?
thanks
If we can punish these sanctuary cities and get some voter ID that the Feds wont nullify, we might actually get some of the bigger Cities back.
I think there are some Loons in Austin, but day by day I think these folks are seeing the failure of liberal policy.There is beginning to be some push back.
As an example, these jack wagons would like to build bike lanes everywhere. I’m not a fan of spending all that money on bike lanes when the majority of people wont ever use them. It is going to be 100+ degrees here for the next Month, so ride your bike to work every morning, it’s not the traffic that’s gonna kill you, it’s your boss when you show up smelling like a fifth graders gym sock at 8 am.