Sandra Bland And The Long History Of Racism In Waller County, Texas

[DhhD]

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The Atlantic
Sandra Bland And The Long History of Racism In Waller County, Texas
by David A Graham

Waller County, Texas, has had a complicated racial history since the days when it was a part of Mexico. At one of its first settlements, Bernardo Plantation, about 100 slaves grew cotton on a large farm on the banks of the Brazos. Yet in the years before Texas fought Mexico for its independence, the area became a magnet for free blacks from elsewhere in the South who sought a welcoming home.

The messy, confusing double legacy of that history has persisted to the present, most recently embodied in the death of Sandra Bland in a Waller County jail cell. Bland, a 28-year-old from Chicago, was on a road trip to start a new job at her alma mater, historically black Prairie View A&M University, when she was pulled over by a state trooper for failing to signal a turn. Somehow, that apparently routine stop escalated and ended with Bland with an arm injury, under arrest for assaulting an officer. She was found dead in her cell three days later, on July 13, of what police say was suicide by asphyxiation. Her family disputes that account, saying she had no inclination to suicide and was upbeat about her new job.

We’ll need more information to understand what happened to Bland. As Radley Balko notes, jailhouse suicide is disturbingly common. Regardless of the circumstances of Bland’s death, however, a routine stop for failing to use a blinker should not end in several days of imprisonment and death. That has brought a natural focus on Waller County and the figures involved.
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Texas has some parts, with people that sadly hold on to a shameful, cruel, and selfish past, that makes for a criminal reality for the now. What really happened to Ms. Bland? It is time for new leaders in Texas. Extremism stinks!

[TexasTowelie]

1. The disenfranchisement of voting rights among the college students at Prairie View A&M

has been an issue going back decades. The white population in that county has always thought that the students should have to vote in the county of their residence instead of Waller County. I doubt the racial discrimination tactics will end anytime in the near future. As soon as one problem is solved another problem will arise.

[DhhD]

2. Texas and Waller County residents may soon be paying a heafty civil court judgement. All those at

cause, need to be dismissed in the proper way as soon as possible. When does the Office of Sheriff come up for reelection again? How about all the other trouble makers?

[heaven05]

3. No more information needed to understand WHY

Sandra Bland ended up in that jail cell dead because when that damn racist pig calling himself 'the police' ran up on her, they come up very fast and close to intimidate, I've had it happen while DWB, she failed to use a turn signal when getting out the way of the pig sheriff. A lot of people seem to be ignoring that FACT in an effort to play down the reason she was stopped. She wasn't speeding, she had done nothing up to the point of that racist pig driving up on her except be DWB.

I just for the life of me can't understand this obvious attempt to FORGET WHY she was stopped. It was a forced stop with her, after driving from Illinois to waller county, Tx and probably being very tired, making a mistake after being intimidated by that racist cop. Stop with the selective analysis of why she was stopped and get real. WHY WAS SHE KILLED???And that suicide bullshit meme, "all too common". Another typical attempt at diminishing the import of the totality of this police stop and death of Sandra Bland. It is becoming crystal clear, that while #Black Lives Matter to millions of people, some even come by here, black lives don't matter to millions of others, some who also drop by here.

[TexasTowelie]

5. If she had Illinois plates on her car

then that would have triggered the cop to harass her. Local cops would take notice that it was someone from out of state and possibly have more money to pay fines than one of the local yokels.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Took the semi-mainstream media two weeks to point out the obvious. Good luck with the MSM

uttering a peep.

The privileges of "living while white" extends right into the boardrooms and editorial staff and content of all media.

And so it goes on, and on and on and....

[Gothmog]

6. Waller County is full of racist idiots

There is a long history of racism in that county due in part to the County trying to keep non-white voters attending school in the county from voting

[DhhD]

7. Texas Prosecutor Names Committee To Review Sandra Bland Case

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-prosecutor-names-committee-review-sandra-bland-case-174033486.html

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A committee of outside attorneys will assist the Texas district attorney investigating the death of Sandra Bland, the black woman who authorities say hanged herself in her jail cell three days after a traffic stop by a white state trooper.

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