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Texas town reflects on dragging death ahead of execution

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Texas town reflects on dragging death ahead of execution

JASPER, Texas (AP) — A technology company was almost ready to bring up to 300 new jobs to Jasper, Texas, but in the final stages of recent negotiations, a potential deal-breaker emerged: the community’s history as the place where three white men dragged a black man behind a pickup, killing him.

The 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. was one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history, and it gave the company president pause in the discussions about where to locate his firm’s newest facility. Local clergy and community leaders made their case that the town of 7,600 people is not defined by a murder that happened almost 21 years ago.
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Why does TX seem to be the focus for a lot of this commotion?

'The stars at night are big & bright...'
 
JacksinPA said:
Texas town reflects on dragging death ahead of execution

JASPER, Texas (AP) — A technology company was almost ready to bring up to 300 new jobs to Jasper, Texas, but in the final stages of recent negotiations, a potential deal-breaker emerged: the community’s history as the place where three white men dragged a black man behind a pickup, killing him.

The 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. was one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history, and it gave the company president pause in the discussions about where to locate his firm’s newest facility. Local clergy and community leaders made their case that the town of 7,600 people is not defined by a murder that happened almost 21 years ago.
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Why does TX seem to be the focus for a lot of this commotion?

'The stars at night are big & bright...'
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Hmm... that might be due to Texas being the second most populous state. Out of nearly 30M folks there are bound to be some very bad apples.
 
JacksinPA said:
Texas town reflects on dragging death ahead of execution

JASPER, Texas (AP) — A technology company was almost ready to bring up to 300 new jobs to Jasper, Texas, but in the final stages of recent negotiations, a potential deal-breaker emerged: the community’s history as the place where three white men dragged a black man behind a pickup, killing him.

The 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. was one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history, and it gave the company president pause in the discussions about where to locate his firm’s newest facility. Local clergy and community leaders made their case that the town of 7,600 people is not defined by a murder that happened almost 21 years ago.
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Why does TX seem to be the focus for a lot of this commotion?

'The stars at night are big & bright...'
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Texas was a part of the southern confederacy of the 1800's and they have nothing else to be concerned with.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Hmm... that might be due to Texas being the second most populous state. Out of nearly 30M folks there are bound to be some very bad apples.
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Pretty much this. Over 21 years, a whole ****load of people have been in the state of Texas, and it only takes a tiny percentage to make a lot of cases.

Now, Texas is politically the 4th most backwards, bat**** insane state(behind both Carolinas and Louisiana), but that is not the same thing as murderous.
 
Makes ya wonder why Hawaii and New York have been attacked.
 
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