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Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family! This particular person realized he was ill-suited for government service and resigned after this post. But I fear that his brand of plain-spoken nonsense lies not far beneath the surface for many of our leaders who are politically savvy enough to keep it beneath the surface.

Attitudes like that allow many non-Texans to caricature what it means to be Texan. I recently was reminded of this assessment of Texas and Texans by a Brit who did a stint as a newspaper editor in Richmond, Texas near Houston. Upon returning to Great Britain, Nicholas Maillard reported Texas was "filled with habitual liars, drunkards, blasphemers, and slanderers; sanguinary gamesters and cold-blooded assassins; with idleness and sluggish indolence, two vices for which the Texans are already proverbial; with pride, engendered by ignorance and supported by fraud.

Maillard arrived in Texas on Jan. He was wrong. Nothing is as bad as he portrayed Texas. Maybe we need this challenging reminder. Unfortunately, Gov.

Greg Abbott initially instinctively retreated to finger pointing by going on Fox News Channel and somehow blaming this on the Green New Deal , something that, at this point, is just an idea in some politicians' heads.

Diversity equals dynamism, which equals enlightenment. Anyone who goes on to defend Confederate-related statues might not be openly racist but probably harbors ideas of white exceptionalism and is to be avoided or, if related by blood or marriage, coached up.

In my life, as the father of a young Black male, I would never let my son go near a campus with a fight song from our racist past. The North won the war. The slaves were freed. Blacks became citizens. Anything else is just racist claptrap.

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