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Old 08-26-2009, 12:20 PM
 
Location: Universal City, Texas
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Have you noticed how Hollywood and New York have been picking on Texas lately? Great Debaters showed Texas prejudice in the 30's and just recently I saw the biograph of Ernie Davis of Syracuse. The showcase was the National Champioship game in the Cotton Bowl in 1960. It showed Texas and Dallas to be highly prejudiced. Made Texas look bad. How about a movie how in 2009, country clubs in New York are not allowing black people. We've learned from our past mistakes, some in the north still haven't learned.
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Old 08-26-2009, 12:22 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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Lately????

They've always picked on Texas.
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Old 08-26-2009, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Heh...

I watched tv the other night, some show on TNT called The Closer. Some detective from Texas joined the regular cast cops, from Los Angeles I think, and he showed up complete with a cowboy hat and boots. If they don't show us as racist bumpkins, then they'll depict us as poorly dressed provincials. That's just the way it is.
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Old 08-26-2009, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Universal City, Texas
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Ernie Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Davis found racism prevalent in the American South during his Cotton Bowl visit. Author Jocelyn Selim writes that at the banquet following the 1960 game, Davis was told he could only accept his award and then would be required to leave the segregated facility. Davis refused and his teammates, nearly all of them white, boycotted the banquet.[3]
A different account of the banquet is given by John Brown. He was Davis' teammate at Syracuse and on the Cleveland Browns, his roommate and a close friend. According to an article in the Houston Chronicle, all the players from the game attended the banquet. Brown recalls that the teams sat on opposite sides of the room. After everyone ate and the trophies were handed out, the three black Syracuse players, including Brown and Davis were asked to leave and were taken to another party in Dallas by local NAACP representatives. One Syracuse player, Ger Schwedes, recommended that the whole Syracuse team leave the banquet to show solidarity with their black teammates, but the suggestion was overruled by Syracuse officials. When the Chronicle asked Brown "whether the film is a truthful portrayal of his friend, Brown said... in short, no."[4]


Just goes to show the Hollywood axiom, "Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story". If you haven't seen it, it starts out showing Texas and Syracuse and then comes back to it in the story. I don't want to ruin the story but it is pretty derogatory of Texas team and the state as a whole. Typical stereo type from the elitist of east coast and west coast. I bet they hate it that everyone is moving here and abandoning their states.

If you can overlook the treatment of our state, the rest of the movie was pretty good. It's sad that Ernie Davis got leukemia and died.

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Old 08-26-2009, 03:22 PM
 
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We gave the United States G.W.Bush I think we got off lightly if all we get is a few jabs.
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Old 08-26-2009, 03:35 PM
 
Location: The Big D
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We gave the United States G.W.Bush I think we got off lightly if all we get is a few jabs.
Blame Connecticut for him. Not Texas.

At least us Texans know our history and where presidents were born
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Old 08-26-2009, 03:39 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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Blame Connecticut for him. Not Texas.

At least us Texans know our history and where presidents were born
Exactly if you ain't born in Texas you're not a native point blank, end of story In all seriousness though I don't claim him one bit, this coming from a natural born citizen of Texas.
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Old 08-26-2009, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Nope, not a Texan. Not by birth, and not by behavior.
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Old 08-26-2009, 03:49 PM
 
Location: The Big D
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Exactly if you ain't born in Texas you're not a native point blank, end of story In all seriousness though I don't claim him one bit, this coming from a natural born citizen of Texas.


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Nope, not a Texan. Not by birth, and not by behavior.
AMEN!
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Old 08-26-2009, 05:27 PM
 
Location: New London County, CT
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One might get the impression that Texas is a bit backwards if they read stories about the state school board choosing textbooks with creationist/ "intelligent design" leanings, are eliminating important minority history figures from the curriculum and teaching bible in public high schools... Good thing it's not true. Oh, wait.....

Yes, Bush was born in Connecticut. New Haven. Just like is father, and his grandfather, Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush. However it he himself who claims Texas, and frankly Connecticut won't claim him. Can you blame them?
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