Quote from The South Lawn concerning media coverage in Texas and the other states in the south. When the media and national progressive organizations descend on the South it is usually for things like this. Or this. Or this. Or this. The only story that ever gets told is the same one that has always been told: the South as conservative, white, oppressive, and backwards. But the South is more than that. It is home to more GLBTQ couples raising children than any other part of the country. It is home to Black people who, their ancestors having been uprooted because of unremitting racial violence and economic oppression, return to a South that is growing faster than any other part of the country, and boasts more Black legislators than ever before. It is home to a growing Latino community that is swiftly becoming an important part of any governing coalition in the South. And it is home to the some of the most innovative progressive activists in the country, as evidenced by the events this week. National organizations are telling an exaggerated version of our communities, and believe that one-week road trips constitute meaningful work in a state or region. Our stories are not being told by a media that only seems to see Southern progressive victories as a time filler in between discussions of more “pressing matters”:
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:44:27 +0000
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