From "If You Only News":
a piece on racism from a Texas county commissioner.
(It lists the innocent, unarmed black men killed by police in 2014, so Freddie Gray is conspicuously absent.)

John Gradberg is a Panola County, Texas, Commissioner. On Tuesday, he found himself in a bit of hot water when he posted about the protests and riots surrounding the Freddie Gray death in Baltimore.

The rant read like something from a white pride leaflet, not a Facebook post of an elected official.

The post is gone, but Burnt Orange Report managed to get screen grabs.

 

Here is my counter to each and every one of his points:

There are also Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans but only one type of American was brought here en masse and by force. The rest came voluntarily.

Poverty leads to crime. White poor people commit crimes as well. Of course, the biggest crimes are perpetrated by white men wearing suits. A poor black man might take a car or a TV but rich white men take homes, jobs and entire livelihoods.

As for the this day this organization, every day throughout history has been for white people. Almost all the history taught in school is white history. Nearly every organization throughout America’s history has been white. It’s relatively recent that black people have been allowed to go to college or enter Miss America pageants.

Here’s a list of unarmed black men who died at the hands of police officers in 2014 – they were innocent at the time of their deaths.

Rumain Brisbon, 34, Phoenix, Ariz.—Dec. 2, 2014
Tamir Rice, 12, Cleveland, Ohio—Nov. 22, 2014
Akai Gurley, 28, Brooklyn, NY—Nov. 20, 2014
Kajieme Powell, 25, St. Louis, Mo.—August 19, 2014
Ezell Ford, 25, Los Angeles, Calif.—August 12, 2014
Dante Parker, 36, San Bernardino County, Calif.—August 12, 2014
Michael Brown, 18, Ferguson, Mo.—August 9, 2014
John Crawford III, 22, Beavercreek, Ohio—August 5, 2014
Tyree Woodson, 38, Baltimore, Md.—August 2, 2014
Eric Garner, 43, New York, N.Y.—July 17, 2014
Victor White III, 22, Iberia Parish, La.—March 22, 2014
Yvette Smith, 47, Bastrop, Texas—February 16, 2014
McKenzie Cochran, 25, Southfield, Mich.—January 28, 2014
Jordan Baker, 26, Houston, Texas—January 16, 2014

Gradberg has since apologized, in a non-apology sort of way. He claims he is a victim of the liberal media. Here’s the screenshot because I’m afraid that he’ll probably end up deleting these words soon as well.