Was just coming to post this myself. Really well done article, esp the interview with Floyd Moody (a black student harassed by white citizens and Jay Banks while attempting to desegregate the local high school). There’s a subscriber wall but it’s free to put in your email so I highly recommend doing so to read the whole thing.
1ROYinHD1
any teams out there willing to take in a disgruntled ranger fan ?
Knightbear49
> “I reached out to the team, and then I was redirected to people who handle that aspect of their operations,” said Jason Thomas, the NAACP’s Arlington, Texas chapter president. “Because I didn’t get a response, I reached out to the city of Arlington for assistance.” Arlington mayor Jim Ross confirmed his involvement in an effort to ensure the team’s leadership engaged with the NAACP.
> “It seemed like it was void of any thought, and it didn’t have any public engagement,” Thomas told eyeblack. “No one asked any questions about this, especially given the fact that it was removed in the height of the George Floyd era.” He added that putting the statue so close to Mansfield was “tone deaf.”
> Ross told eyeblack that Rangers principal owner Ray Davis was heavily involved in acquiring “One Riot, One Ranger”, which the city of Dallas had loaned, but not yet transferred, to the TRAF. According to Ross, a minority owner informed him that Davis was confident that repurposing the sculpture shouldn’t be offensive because the Black mayor of Dallas, Eric Johnson, gave it to the team.3
> “Well, this one Black guy [approved]?,” said Rep. Marc Veasey, whose congressional district includes Globe Life. (And for whatever it’s worth, is also a Black man.) “That’s not good. Our white friends should not do that to us.”
chirstopher0us
This is an unbelievable embarrassment to the team, staff, players, fans. Publicly confirms that the owner is an awful racist POS. That thing better be taken down by opening day or everyone should save all of their trash/bottles/food containers and dump them there on the statute on their way out of every game.
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Was just coming to post this myself. Really well done article, esp the interview with Floyd Moody (a black student harassed by white citizens and Jay Banks while attempting to desegregate the local high school). There’s a subscriber wall but it’s free to put in your email so I highly recommend doing so to read the whole thing.
any teams out there willing to take in a disgruntled ranger fan ?
> “I reached out to the team, and then I was redirected to people who handle that aspect of their operations,” said Jason Thomas, the NAACP’s Arlington, Texas chapter president. “Because I didn’t get a response, I reached out to the city of Arlington for assistance.” Arlington mayor Jim Ross confirmed his involvement in an effort to ensure the team’s leadership engaged with the NAACP.
> “It seemed like it was void of any thought, and it didn’t have any public engagement,” Thomas told eyeblack. “No one asked any questions about this, especially given the fact that it was removed in the height of the George Floyd era.” He added that putting the statue so close to Mansfield was “tone deaf.”
> Ross told eyeblack that Rangers principal owner Ray Davis was heavily involved in acquiring “One Riot, One Ranger”, which the city of Dallas had loaned, but not yet transferred, to the TRAF. According to Ross, a minority owner informed him that Davis was confident that repurposing the sculpture shouldn’t be offensive because the Black mayor of Dallas, Eric Johnson, gave it to the team.3
> “Well, this one Black guy [approved]?,” said Rep. Marc Veasey, whose congressional district includes Globe Life. (And for whatever it’s worth, is also a Black man.) “That’s not good. Our white friends should not do that to us.”
This is an unbelievable embarrassment to the team, staff, players, fans. Publicly confirms that the owner is an awful racist POS. That thing better be taken down by opening day or everyone should save all of their trash/bottles/food containers and dump them there on the statute on their way out of every game.