I hope I don't offend anyone...but I hope the rain washed away the racist

[Horse with no Name]

scum in Vidor.

http://www.rtis.com/reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/april99/vidor.html

[Ken Burch]

1. Well. you can hope for whatever you want...

but the racists probably had enough money to get out of town in time.

[Mikimouse]

2. Horse! You read the Touchstone???????????

Speak to me Obi-Wan!

[Horse with no Name]

3. It's one of my reads

;)

[Mikimouse]

4. check your PM...n/t

[NYC]

5. That was a very interesting link about Vidor.

In 1993 on orders from the Federal judiciary, integration was attempted. Four black families or individuals were relocated into the previously all-white HUD housing complex in Vidor. Within months all four were driven out after enduring many racial taunts, snubs from local white-owned businesses , and death threats -- including "security patrols" around the town by the Klan in a refurbished Texas Department of Corrections bus. Within months all four had left. The last black person to leave was Bill Simpson. Simpson was murdered on the streets of Beaumont in 1993 on the day he moved out of Vidor. Some have said that the murder was retaliation and was arranged through the drug connections of some Texas racists and black Beaumont street gangs.

Vidor was dubbed "Texas most hate-filled town" by the December 1993 Texas Monthly. This is a moniker it appears that the city of Vidor justly deserves.

Note: That was only 12 years ago.