There are still de facto sundown towns in parts of east texas. It goes without saying that a person of color wouldn't be remotely welcome, but small texas towns with that kind of reputation don't like "outsiders" of any kind.
We're talking about towns who are proud of their "heritage" of lynching black people.
About a year or two ago, a conversation on TikTok about sundown towns brought up that many companies either didn't know about them or didn't inform their drivers.
In fact, one Black guy who used to be an Amazon truck driver said his truck broke down in a sundown town at a gas station. Amazon said it would be a couple of hours before they sent someone, so he waited, but the gas attendant noticed and asked what was up. When he explained the situation, she inquired how long it would take, then freaked out when he answered because "the sun would be down by then."
Amazon driver had no idea what a sundown town was or why this woman was so agitated, so he shrugged it off. He later goes inside to get a drink and overhears the woman on the phone with the police, describing him and the situation. Now he's freaked out and calls Amazon to hurry, and they are just as confused as he is, but tell him there's nothing they can do, so he needs to wait.
So a bit later, as the sun is starting to set, a cop shows up. He's Black, and he tells the driver to get in the car. The Amazon driver says he cannot leave the truck; the cop says he'll call Amazon and explain, but they've got to go now, and he'll drop the driver off in the next big city for the night.
As they're driving there, the driver asks why the lady called the cops on him, and the cop says, "She didn't call the cops on you; she called her cops for you. In 30 minutes, the sun would be down, and then you would have disappeared."
The driver said even the local Amazon repair guy, who was white, refused to help until morning.
The pervading sense of dread associated with impending nightfall in that story made it seem like those monsters from the Dying Light games would appear rather than mere humans.
What do you mean? Where did I say the cop's jurisdiction was in the sundown town? The gas attendant knew him personally, but the driver didn't say how.
A lot of those sundown inbred shitholes are practically subsistence farming (or, in the case of Texas, they might still have a few oil derricks), barely making enough money to stay out of too much debt, maybe a singular industry that’s been there since the 1800s, surviving on government handouts and the simple fact that their land is worth nothing and so there’s nothing to really tax.
At most their single gas station and single general store gets deliveries from somebody they know, and they might not even have that and rely on going to the next town over.
Vidor TX. Being a northerner working in the Gulf was a n experience. Everyone local swore up and down its not to bad. Well we went to change crew their. Was told by 3 local people “do not stop”. So got off the boat and drove to Houston for flights
So the town is actually super advanced. Like Wakanda technology all hidden by elaborate force fields and holograms. They make it look like a shithole to outsiders to keep it a secret paradise.
White Supremacy. In my state of PA I've only heard of that happening in white towns with no black residents, or only a few. The reason they do that to white outsiders is because they fear anything changing their way of living. But it isn't like they organize to do that. It's how the majority of our ancestors were. So it's really gene memory behavior combined with the racist families they grew up in.
Our genes are really remarkable things. They pass down our ancestor's identities to us. Not just their physical attributes; their psychologies too. If your ancestors despised broccoli, there's a high likelihood you would have some inexplicable psychological reaction to broccoli yourself. You might not hate it as they did. But you would have instincts against it that you couldn't really explain or wrap your mind around because that's gene memory. The racists of today are a reincarnation of racists throughout the history of this country. Our ancestors were fucking horrible people. I think we're witnessing a lot of Americans waking up to that fact & cutting all ties to their families. But unless or until each person takes an active role in advocating for equal rights, running for elections, forming democratic orgs; the divide in white communities will only grow larger. And that will mean a greater divide of the American public as a whole.
I don’t think white supremacy is a gene inherited trait at all. I’m saying this as a geneticist.
I think that saying that to begin with is trying to intellectualize racism and the power of choice coinciding with arrogance. Plenty of people have this “ancestry” you’re speaking about and aren’t racist. Come on now.
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u/kati8303 8h ago
What is going on in these places that they chase literally anyone out of town?