People don’t want to remember, but Texas was a blue state until the 1990s. Governor Ann Richards (before George W. Bush) was Democrat, Senator (and VP nominee) Lloyd Bentsen was Democrat and even Senator Phil Gramm was Democrat before becoming Republican. I hope that Texas becomes a blue state again. I feel that there is too much racism in Texas now and that with all the people moving to Texas from California and New York, Texas can become blue again.
I want to tell you about the racism I have faced here in Fort Bend and why I wish every politician from the Sheriff to the Justice of the Peace to the State Representative and Senators were Democrats.
HEB:
I was at the HEB here in Fort Bend one day during Covid and yet HEB in those days did not require a mask to enter and the carts provided by HEB were not very clean, and there was some used tissue on my cart which I pushed off (others were doing the same thing) and then a 300 lb white guy came and yelled at me and so I told him to get lost, to which he called me a piece of shit. So I told him to get away from me or I would call the police. Then he put his face really close and said “come on hit me” to which I said no and he replied “you’re a pussy” and I again said no. Then he repeated the whole thing again. This was clearly an white supremacist who wanted to harass immigrants. A lot of Indians in Houston are on H1-B visas and so they don’t want to call the police, so the white people in Fort Bend and even the police take advantage of that, the police in Fort Bend openly promote white supremacy .
So I talked to the HEB manager who refused to do anything and refused to call the police saying “he’s a customer too”. So I called the police who came. Three policeman came and they seemed to put the blame on me, the Black policeman told me “you were angry and you called us, and we came but no crime was committed”. Then I spoke to the White policeman and said this guy was threatening me but he said that the white guy was angry and so he had a right to say whatever he wanted and “no crime was committed”. So according to the Fort Bend police “white is right” and when a white person is calling you a piece of shit, and calling you a pussy, immigrants are supposed to keep quiet and listen to it. This is the definition of racism. Immigrants in Houston do a lot to contribute to the Houston economy, so why should we be treated as second class citizens by the police ?
I stopped shopping at HEB after that, it is a fact that HEB caters to the white people (especially Republicans) in Texas, if you look behind the checkout counters at HEB almost all the cashiers are white, whereas if you go to the nearest Walmart you will see that the majority of cashiers are Black or immigrants. Republicans go to HEB in Texas because it is the “White” grocery store and I don’t like such businesses. If Texas was blue again, the Sheriff and the politicians would prevent this type of racism.