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Recently, CNN did a story on Vidor, Texas. This is a small town that borders Louisiana and is infamous in the area for its racist history.

As black folks, we heard about towns, particularly in the South, where we’d better be out of by the time the sun went down. Vidor was a hotbed of Klan activity. Even today, black folks tend to avoid Vidor after dark.
Now, the town says it’s trying to change its image. Officials there say the Klan’s been gone from there for 30 years and most of the folks there aren’t racist. But, one part of the story may be a telling sign of life in Vidor, Texas.

The reporter sat down with a resident there in a local restaurant and got the following response about the notion of black families moving into her neighborhood:

“I don’t mind being friends with them, talking and stuff like that, but as far as mingling and eating with them, all that kind of stuff, that’s where I draw the line.”

Who knows — maybe by “changing” they mean that they don’t wear the sheets anymore. At any rate, here’s the video from the segment.

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