The high-dollar Democrats runnin’ for Governor, for Attorney General, for every other office under the Texas sun—where y’all at? We ain’t seen statewides in a month of Sundays. Hidin’ behind Zoom calls? Polishing your boots and collecting checks in Austin and Houston while the rest of your fellow Texans blow in the wind?
Not one of you—save Mr. Tucker—has bothered to yet stand on our soil, look regular working people in the eye, and say, “We see you. We need you.” You act like we’re some flyover afterthought, a red stain you can’t be bothered to clean. Well, I’ve got news: if you never come here, we’ll never vote for you. And why should we?
You want Lubbock voters to switch sides? Then show up. Quit preaching to coastal elites and start talking to honest folks who care about low taxes, strong borders, faith and prayer, and backing our strongly held 2nd Amendment rights. We’re not sinners just because of where we’re from. We’re Texans, too.
And listen close: Black families out here love their children, their churches, and their paychecks just like white folks do. We both want less government stealing our wages. We both believe in an awesome God. We both honor the flag. There’s a coalition right under your nose—if only you’d open your eyes.
But instead, you send emails. You airbrush your ads. You ignore us till election day, then beg for crumbs of support. I say it’s time for a new politics for Texas Democrats—one that unites Texans not by division, but by common sense. Low taxes. Strong old Texas values of live and let live. Local control.
If the Texas Democratic Party wants to do better in Lubbock, then they better start walking our streets, not dodging them.
Or get the hell out of the way.
Stuart Williams is the chair of the Lubbock Coalition of Black Democrats, former chair of the Lubbock County Democratic Party, and co-founder of The 134 PAC.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Lubbock exists, too—it’s time state Democrats show some respect | Stuart Williams
Reporting by By Stuart Williams, special for the Avalanche-Journal / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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