Levelland Mayor Faces Backlash Over Racist Facebook Post

[TexasTowelie]

Levelland’s Mayor Barbara Pinner received backlash from residents after sharing a Facebook post to her personal page containing racial slurs over the weekend. Tuesday night, residents gathered at city hall to have a conversation with the mayor about the post.

Tuesday night, the mood was tense at the meeting. Attendees took turns voicing their opinions over the post. One young man posed the question: “Would you read that post to us right now, face to face?”

The mayor’s response was simple: “No.”

The post she shared appears to be a letter written from the perspective of a dying Black man. In it, he shares negative views on Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin — two young Black men killed under controversial circumstances. It uses the N-word at least 20 times and even includes the term “untrained monkeys.” The fact-checking site Snopes.com has not been able to verify that this text was actually written by an older Black man. The site does say that the post has been in circulation since 2014, after the death of Michael Brown.

Several of the mayor’s constituents are now calling for her resignation. Daisy Gutierrez isn’t calling for her to resign, but the incident has definitely changed her mind about supporting the mayor she once voted for.

Read more: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/levelland-mayor-faces-backlash-over-racist-facebook-post/

[texasfiddler]

1. Typical West Texas

I think this stems from the oil boom of the early 1900s. A big portion of people who populated West Texas were poor racist white people who came from Mississippi and Alabama and brought that screwed up mentality. That is how my Mom’s side came into Texas. My Mom completely rejected her upbringing and moved with my Dad to South Texas. My Mom is the only liberal on her side of the family. I love my 85 and 91 year old liberal parents.