The Texas blackouts last month were the perfect example of why the go-it-alone mentality can only be viable when things don't go wrong...like when a huge winter storm hits. Then you need help.
We talk with a Texas native and the co-host of the Broke, Gifted, and Black podcast Nono, about the perils of Texas politics and how it royally screws over Texas citizens over in times of crisis. She works at the Texas Organizing Project and tells us about how Texas isn't a red state, it's a voter suppressed state. Did you know, whenever a state house seat flips blue, they lower the number of votes required to introduce a bill to the floor to the number of Republicans present (used to be 21, now they have lowered it to 18)?
Did you know the story of Fred Hampton, a Black Panther who was targeted by the FBI? Did you know the story of the Tulsa bombings, when one of the most prominent, affluent Black communities in American history got bombed by the government? In this episode, we learn about these stories you don't read about in high school history and what this Texas organizer thinks it is going to take to get us to have a racial reckoning in America.
Links:
Broke, Gifted and Black Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/broke-gifted-and-black/id1528040868
Texas Organizing Project: https://organizetexas.org/
Vox Explainer Video on Texas Outages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcrsgdl_hP0
Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.
