Thread: Whittaker's Christmas Tree Farm in Crockett/Grapeland, Texas are not selling trees to Blacks

And this incident does not reflect most East Texans. The majority of them are good hard working people. It's just a few that makes the majority look bad.

And I am equally unfamiliar with Texas law. The United States is a LIBERAL Country. -Laelth

Edited on Sat Dec-06-08 07:24 PM by fudge stripe cookays PARTS of it are like that. PARTS are not. Dallas recently elected a gay Latina sherriff. The inner parts of major cities are blue, and basically hold liberal attitudes. The suburbs do not. Just like the suburbs of ANY major city. It's called "white flight" and it happened lots of places, not just in Texas. Having "family" somewhere does not make you an expert on...

Grapeland is North of Crockett and South of Palestine on US Hwy 287. Everything in Texas is far apart.

I would. As you said, it needs to be addressed. Getting to the common carrier argument though, I understand that a truly "private" business can sell to whom they choose, but if the business is held open to the public, then isn't the refusal to sell to customers based on racial criteria a violation of federal anti-discrimination law? For example, if the guy advertised at all, or even put up signs on the road or on his property?...

it would be a festivus day miracle!

Edited on Fri Dec-05-08 09:38 AM by Erin Elizabeth if she called Ricky Smiley at 97.9, she'd be telling it ON THE AIR during his morning show. Tell her to call him, seriously. It was his morning show a couple of years back that did a big thing on how there was all that attention on the Holloway girl who was missing in Mexico, but there was an African American woman the same age who went missing right before her and the media didn't...

the people doing it have some sort of power thing going on. She TRIED to tell the local radio station and they hung up on her.

Wish I could join in with them... a little far for me to travel however. I could act as decoy being a pasty white northern woman...