Burnt Orange Report

Keep on top of this one, please. Doubt we'll see much about it 'round these parts.

I wonder if either of the black students that go to the bigger A&M are going to be disenfranchised as well?

Are whites allowed to attend Prairie View A&M? Do the blacks who attend consider it "separate but equal"?

I wonder if either of the black students that go to the bigger A&M are going to be disenfranchised as well?

Ask the six Texas A&M blacks for whom legacy points was the determining admission factor in 2003.

Again, we see from Mr. Harden, the kneee jerk reaction of the Right. What is going on in Waller County is clearly wrong, and the Right can only change the subject and condemn the concern as whining.

What is interesting about this is why the DA is taking this hard line stance when the law is clear on this issue not to mention that Byron did a good job of explaining it practically.

I think that the DA may have an opponent in the general election and that if he does, his opponent will surely receive the support of the black students and the black community as a whole.

But then again this is purely speculation on my part.

6 students. Out of 44,000. Nice.

In fact, close to 2% of A&M students are black. About 800 if memory serves. Close to 350 of those play football, basketball, baseball, run track, or cross country. So 550 black people, out of over 44,000 go to A&M because they think it's the best place for them.

Indeed, many black people go to places like PV and Texas Southern; the TSU Thurgood Marshall Law Center is now very diverse -- many white folks from the Houston area go there. Their QB was white in 2001-2002.

PV and TSU were founded because of your racist seperate but equal laws; their proud heritages, and proud traditions, are the reason the schools didn't close when equal access was granted, when the state lege again and again cut their funding, or when TSU was threatened to be merged into the U of Houston. They are proud people ... and have much to be proud about.

And whites are a helluva lot more welcome in Prairie View than blacks are in College Station.

The story talks about "rumoured" indictments. Is there actually a story here?

Theindictments are real and arise out of an election in Brookshire in Waller County. You see, if the students are considered legal residents then the prosecution can't win and the DA must think thatit is more important to win than apply the law. As the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party I have tried these residency cases and I want to say something LOUD AND CLEAR for Mark Harden or whoever he really is, Until you have had your right to vote challenged or taken away or been prosecuted with the aim of making you a convict you cannot begin to understand the seriousness of this or the absolute affront this is to the way our country does it's business. These students get up every day to get an education and work and struggle in many cases with financial issues that many didn't face. What is it that truly scares the Republican DA in Waller County? It can't be the law, because the law is clear---The Sec. of State has personally explained the law to the DA---so for me I hope that the students march----rally----register and vote like crazy to remove and deinstitutionalize the racism in the office of the Waller County District Attorney...and that's really all I have to say, charles By the Way--the State Democratic Executive Committee had a great first of the year meeting yesterday and the story about Phil Gramm not registering as a lobbyist for UBS, (yesterdays and today's Chronicle) was big news. Sorry I don't know how to do a link and my kids are asleep so no technical assistance available. Charles

As A student who attends at Prairie View A&M University. I would like to say that it was truly evil for a DA to disenfranchise my right to vote. Because students like my self spend the majority of our lives away from homes to receive an quality education to better our selves,besides if it wasn't for students the buisness productivity in Waller County alone wouldn't exist because students makes up majority of the populations of three cities Waller,Prairie View, and Hempstead. To say that students vote doesn't count is cruel because it makes me think that we are not apart of Waller and we're the ones spending our money at stores, fast-food places, restuarants, and gas stations. Whats also funny is that those three cities are dead durring the holidays,sping and summer breaks.
a student from Prairie View

In today's post-Civil Rights Movement era, racists have to plan their efforts carefully. No longer do they enjoy wide public support for overtly discriminatory activities, such as they did through the 1960's. So they hide behind archaic laws, or they attempt to obfuscate the public by confusing the interpretation of modern laws, in complete violation of the spirit in which some of these were written. This is the only way to legitimize their agenda today.

What gets me is that when they are busted, when their actions are brought before the scrutiny of the Amercian public, they typically react in the same manner:

"My words were taken out of context. That's not what I meant to say. How dare they accuse me of being a racist? I have a black friend, after all."

Cowards.

IT'S CLEAR THAT THIS MAN IS AFRAID THAT THE BLACK STUDENTS WILL ELECT BLACKS INTO OFFICE. IF ALL 7000 STUDENTS REG. IN WALLER CO. THEY COULD DECIDE THE ELECTIONS. THIS REALLY SCARES THE WHITES

Jerrymandering rarely gets more offensive. This forum aside, I'm an aggie, and black, white, hispanic, it doesn't matter. To cut out an entire demographic of voters, especially for race (no matter what the reason) outrages me to no end. Kitzman's insane if he thinks the students can be steamrolled like this.

Earlier, in about January, I went to the Battle of the Bands in Atlanta. I was looking at the bands for not just entertainment but for band qualities as well. I am in the Marching Band and I would like to be in a GOOD band in college. Praire View was by far one of the top bands there. I was so sure that that was the school that I was going to look into. Not long after, I was talking to some friends about the school that the 'Voting Issue' was discussed. At first I was in disbelief until I saw it on BET News. I am still considering Praire View as one of the top bands but I wouldn't dare to the school. We have already fought for our rights to vote. Why fight again?

Bigots seem to come out of the closet when Republicans are in office. District Attorney Oliver Kitzman is clearly a racist,bigot and whatever else can be applied to a person with his outdated mentality.In the LA Times dated 9/5/04,
his statement "racial tension in Waller County would disappear if we took several of the playwes and sent them to Los Angeles", has several implications. Read into his comment and see what you come up with!!!!!