Sundown Towns: Vidor, Texas works to restore reputation from being racist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- For many years, Vidor, Texas was a place where Black travelers did not want to be caught after the sun went down. Now, the town is hoping to clean up its racist reputation.
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Aint no black people going to vidor
Naw fr. You fill up in Houston and you don't stop till you make it to Lake Charles. 😂
No! No! Nooo! It's a set up!
Same here! 😂😂😂
Some live here actually. Im from Beaumont, but have lived in Vidor 16 years. I dispise this stigma out here. But worse I truly dispise the actions of ignorant hateful people that caused it. And I really HOPE for it to change. I've seen more kids here than ever support equality regardless if their elders do or don't. Thats the generations that will really shift the change. If people live their life eith that kinda hate in their heart, its their own souls they ended up hating all along. Because everything and everyone is connected more than most peopke know, you hate another, you hate yourself. Love will prevail ultimately. And I will always support that, equality, any opportunity presenting itself.
@@CMeri-sl6bthell yeah. I charged up my Tesla way before reaching Vidor. And certainly don’t speed along I10 while passing thru.
Where did the racist people go? They didn't disappear.....
They're all at the Trump rally.
Amen. But now they are all of a sudden......morphed into good non-racist people. Shiddd
That's what I am saying.
😂 that’s a great question
@@Legend-tq4pn They're all at the trump rallies.
Don’t take your black self to Vidor. They just need your money from the taxes. I stopped 2weeks ago for gas, and the clerk looked at my black self like I was a plague. He took on my money, but I knew he did not want me there.
He will forever be just a racist clerk in a gas station . I'm not putting his occupation down because I use to be a clerk but if you can't work around other races in this day an age than you limit yourself to doing something else better.
That’s all it is. Lack of diversity leads of lack of cash todays world
Damn same here! I stopped in Memphis and they didn’t want my white self there but took my money
@@pvtschmuckateli283there aren’t “sundown towns” for whites anywhere on earth. Please stop the lies. What a joke. Many people have lived in fear of their lives for decades in these places like vidor and to make a mockery of it is pathetic.
@@pvtschmuckateli283 live your sarcasm but not the same. Your life could be in danger because it’s a dangerous area, not because you were white and stopped after dark. See the difference. You really don’t have to wonder would you be followed, harassed, or maybe killed because you stopped in a sundown town.
Dear black people:
Stay yall AZZ out of Vidor!!
Was raised 30 minutes away and nothing has changed!
Let them live with the reputation they have earned.
Amen!
Truth in real-time. Only reparations heals.
@@markaddison4642 Clearly not when they are worse than ever in 2024
@Digger-Nick Reparations healed nazism in Germany 🇩🇪. Japanese Americans were healed in America 🇺🇸 at the same time. The hypocrisy of Americans atonement is being in delusion about slavery, civil war,and jim Crow. Oops, my bad, want get it. Modern anti blackness is celebrated by complicit biases in real-time. Unapologetically Justice heals and Reparations starts that process in real-time.
Reputation for no crime I bet
Vidor is STILL a sundown town pleaseeee don’t believe that things have changed. I recently had to stop at a gas station when I was headed to visit my family in Louisiana. Trust me I didn’t want to stop but my dog had to use the bathroom. At the gas station there was a truck with a couple of white men and they were hurling racist insults at me and my dog. I immediately got in the car and got the hell out of there. Oh and this was during the day!!!!
My episode happened during the day too.
*That's so messed-up!!! Makes me feel a little ashamed to be white. P.S. Love what you said with that "... but my dog had to use the bathroom." (So cute!) I love you guys! JOHN 3:16*
Great, planning a trip soon. Ignorant folks crack me up lol
I’ve never had any problems in far East Texas. Very friendly folks.
Don't go to any fas station in the inner city.
Who is this child’s parents? They need their ssa kicked for using their child!!!!
Right?! God help us. Shameful and pitiful.
@@norahelaine6041This kid been traveling around America getting sworn in as Police Officer in many cities and states he has cancer and wanted be a Policeman when he grow up. He knows he dying but this what he wants to do he’s not being used……
@@dwightmurray9763he's being used to promote the "new" Vidor 🙄🤦🏽♀️🤨 which doesn't exists,those ppl are still not well there and bored and want new victims 😢
@@cdimplesz324 that’s not true about this kid, they been trying change the city image by even doing this but you right I’m sure some people haven’t change but that shouldn’t stop them from trying.
@@dwightmurray9763 Well, when you put it like that. I guess I can see the parents putting themselves and their pride aside. That makes sense then. I’d suffer through it for my child’s sake. Thank you for that perspective.
This sweet boy makes me smile, but Vidor is a terrifying place for me, and I am white.
It’s still racist especially police … I say this as a greyhound driver who has had bad experience just driving through
Truck drivers can say the same
Lies
so what happened as you were passing through that made you 100 percent sure of the rumors? was there people hanging from trees or something?
Nice
I Hope it stays white
They need money they not racist no more 😂😂
Exactly broke azz
What a stupid comment and you can't even write properly!
Bingo
black people don't have money tho.
They are still racist. Too many comments saying they are still that way. I believe them. Thanks but no thanks
I don't care what Vidor, has to say now. Once a racist always a racist.
Find Jesus
@@bullyboy131 Yeah, maybe your one of bigots hiding behind religion. As my late mom used to say, "Christain my a*s!"
Amen to that
@@bullyboy131Puleeeez! 🛑 These peoples ancestors were claiming Jesus while they were 🌳our people right next door to the Christian church.
@@MvFwdWhy it bother you if white people are racist? I'm black and it doesn't bother me if some group of people who I don't personally care about doesn't like my race.
I never knew Sundown towns existed until I started looking for a retirement home in Oklahoma! I made sure the town we moved to was not a Sundown town! I didn't want my White grandchildren a victim of that kind of hatred! Racism is a learned experience!!
Yes, because racism is taught and as a black person we were never taught to be racist even though they hated us . We just wasn't raised to hate but if you don't like me of course I'm not liking you but some white people live to hate black people it's weird that we live in their heads and did nothing to them they did everything to us and honestly I don't have one white friend and can live with it.Dr. King's Dream wasn't all black people dream .
Really
Yeah...they're broke....To hell with that. They can have it.
It doesn't set right with me that Isiah put this filth on his show. I mean, unless he was forced to, it reflects poorly on him too.
@@dskillzhtown It really does I bet Isaiah wouldn't step foot in Vidor TX 🤷🏾♀️
@@dskillzhtown I would not dare work for an entity that would force me 50 about my freedom of speech freedom of choice 2 lie so someone else can make profitable gain‼️‼️‼️ HAVE ANYONE EVER SEEN A LEOPARD CHANGE HIS SPOTS ‼️‼️‼️ 🤔
That's what a lack of diversity and hatred gets them...
WOKE RACIST HATEFUL PEOPLE LIKE BIDEN,THEY WILL LIE TO YOUR FACE JUST TO USE YOU AND HURT YOU..TRUST THEM NOT..
Um, I'll pass. But thanks anyways.
Right! 😂😂😂
Okay! 👋🤠
Ok!!!!
😅 Same
Scary place at night of course 😅
Im from Beaumont Texas ... even the cops of Vidor will tell you to not be around anywhere in Vidor close to 6pm. I was born in 85 and trust me ... its still the same.
We know this they think that we are stupid enough to go there .
@@user-lv6yg8qe8y Eff Vidor,Texas.
Same! I stopped in Memphis and was harassed about being white. Ugh!
I remember a black family tried to move to Vidor, TX, in the early 2000s. The husband had gotten a job in the Houston area. However, the housing at the time was coming off the Hurricane Katrina situation."
"To say they had to deal with racists and racism would be an understatement. The family's suv had its tires slashed and had "N I G ***" plastered on the windshields of the family SUV."
"His work truck was stolen, and the family house randomly had it's windows busted out while they were at work and school. His truck was later found on a back road on blocks."
The family went from being interviewed on the news about moving to Vidor, TX, to moving completely out of Texas."
" I was a sophomore in high school when this happened. I remember it vividly. Especially coming off the James Bird Jasper, TX, dragging death in 1998, I believe."
Christian Love in the Bible Belt.
Sounds like the show 'Them'.
Send a black guy with a white blonde woman on his arm and see how much they have changed
BINGO BONGO BANGO😉
Send a black guy with a white blonde woman on his arm to the hood and see how things haven't changed.
@@radicalizedoffline1103
And let the whyte woman accuse him of something...
😆😆😆
Once a racist…..ALWAYS A RACIST TOWN!!
Cry
You're the one crying loser@@StealthTRD
@@StealthTRD+ That black guy driving with a white girl must have pissed you off lol
@@StealthTRD Cry for what? You're not important.
@@g.g1217 alot of crying going on..alot of playing victim going on..got several black friends that live in an around vidor and they all say they treated like neighbors from everyone. People just want attention, and to play victim. Nobody even thinking about race until those goofs bring it up. So like i said..cry
It's better the racist you know than the racist you don't know.
No child should ever suffer from cancer!
No child should ever be used by a racist town.
They want your $ but WILL make your life miserable I guarantee it!
They don't want you or your money. They want people like them because they know who they are, how they are and how they will be. I lived with black Americans my whole life and still do and I'm positive if I was to choose between living where I am or with them, id choose them as I never seen Caucasians blowing the block up with their audio, going 80 in neighborhoods (except the California blond), cackling like hyenas at 2 am on weekdays, or shooting at each other on Sunday and drinking beers together monday. Choice is clear and maybe y'all should learn instead of btchn as usual. It's not all, just most
YES!!!!!
Exactly
💯💯
Exactly. Pink demons
I wouldn’t go anywhere near that trash town.
Guess what in the whole state of Texas, Vidor is not the only town like that is anybody surprised? 😂
@@lydiablake-simon7555Not every city is like Vidor and Jasper. Apparently you don’t live in and around these towns.
the town of Vidor thanks you
I would not want to live there. The evil, hate, ungodliness spirits that still dwell there. Can you imagine the evil things that have taken place there to black people. I couldn’t.
Exactly.
Vote Blue, they want that time back again and by law.
And Hispanics & Native Americans
I’ll pass. There are hundreds of small towns in Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Massachusetts,Indiana, Michigan, Iowa. South & North Dakota, Illinois,New Jersey, Connecticut, Louisiana and Pennsylvania I would not stop in. I’m sure there are more but the ones listed will suffice.🤨
Hate doesn’t go away it hides
We've seen this play over and over . My black people don't allow yourself to be con by the biggest cons in history.
obvious in any major city
Propaganda at it’s finest. In 2022, there was a black truck driver that brought a load to Vidor. I don’t know where he was from, but he didn’t have any knowledge about the history of Vidor. Once he got to his destination, he was told by a manager that they were no longer taking loads for the day, but in his case he would go ahead and unload him so that he could be out of Vidor by dark… have a good day people.
ok, I'll believe your random word without proof.
Atleast he got a warning
Sure
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Fall for the trap if you want to! Im a 45 yr old blk man and im COOL! Vider Texas is NOT on my vacation bucket list!
Look like all of texas is like this IMO
It's not... killeen... temple.. harker heights... waco... moody.. austin (Totally Open To Anything)... round rock... pflugerville... I mean texas is a big place.. I mean this is like 2% of Texas
@@blazenbenit’s a LOT of TX, speaking from personal experience having lived across the state over my 30 year military career. A LOT of it
@fashiondiva6972 I'm a native.... it really isnt... ppl talk more abt it than experience it... 😕. I lived in tyler texas... where there still signs that say "Whites only" at food places.. they say it's to keep it aithentic... but it's a warning... my dad joined the military and we moved to ft hood... killeen is right smack next door... nothing compares to EAST TEXAS.... "SUPER GHOSTS WITH FLAMES THAT BURN SO BRIGHT EVEN THE NIGHT SKY QUIVERS".. There's a Tysons chicken out there... across the street from it is all the land my family owns...my uncle was dumb... built a methlab out there.. currently in jail... he told the courts... he sold meth to super ghosts to prevent them from... advertising why he should leave... the judge is apart of the SUPER GHOST...Has a all white horse called "WHITE JUSTICE"... all his current gen kids work in tyler hospitals... where black ppl go missing... do yo research and ask all the old black ppl about the wall of missing black kids... HORRIFYING... we dint name drop... them folks will END YOU!. Anyway hope you never go to a sun down town... they tell u if you dark skinned don't go out past dusk... and if you work past them hour you better PRAY 🙏 🤲 🕍
@@fashiondiva6972 my comment was blocked. All I can say is I disagree... I am from killeen... the places to go they removed.
I Wonder why I didn't see not one black cop. Sure they want your green money, but as long as you stay in your place. They just used this kid to make their quota, and that daddy sitting up there with that cowboy hat on like he really believes he's one of them. This is the one town, he should have left off his list. Prayers up for Dj.
I don't blame them, they just wanna keep what Europe is , organize and clean.
I'm 43. I've known to leave Vidor alone all my life, and I'm sticking to that.
I'm 53... and it is the exact same for me. I've even told my children the same. STAY AWAY at ALL costs!
@@stacieboyd9895 That's what we're starting to say in Dallas, but because of the community.
Well I'm 18, any of them whites try that, an dirt nap is next to come.....
Smart man that town is not for FBA family
Ok, let’s not be stupid!!!
I’m from Houston TX, and I say please black people stay out! This is your warning don’t believe them!! Go @ your own risk if you choose not to listen!
I made a few deliveries there a few years ago and knowing it’s past I was terrified but I was never treated unfairly but I’d never go back on my own
I'm a black man and my boss was telling me that stay out of Texas because he was saying Texas is racist he had a racist cop pull him over
@@DavidBadger-nq2hmjust take a look at the Texas Governor...I rest my case!
@@DavidBadger-nq2hm many times while living in Texas (Houston, Dallas & Midland), I was called a 'beaner' often. I would laugh in their face because I wasn't Mexican but they didn't care. So sad to see Texas change for the worse.
I agree, there needs to be as exclusive communities. as those exclusively black communities to feel safe anymore....
That must of been a nice town 40 years ago
Yeah right, didn’t they dragged a black man to his death in the mid-90s. I’m not even black and know not to stop in Vidor. A friend that is from Beaumont that was stationed in Camp LeJeune with me, told me to never stop for any reason in Vidor. Just keep rolling by.
That was not in Vidor but another town in Texas.
That was jasper!
@@milleniumann28not too far away. Right around the corner.
Don't go where you are not wanted
Isn't that the same sentiment that got Scott Adams vilified?
Doesn't seem very equal...
That applies to all people, everywhere.
that's why I stay out of Baltimore and DC
Sad how they are exploiting this young black child struggle to have you believe that they have changed. Shame on those sad people. Don't yall fall for that BS
It’s their typical behavior. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.
Every place in the United States had to start somewhere. However, I don’t think the start should have been with a child.
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@@candice446you should move your family there and keep us updated.
@@KJ-df9oz nah frfr
It was crazy driving through Vidor as a kid and seeing the sundown signs....it was hard to wrap my head around as a Houston kid where racism was rare and frowned upon.
Good for them. Preserving your culture is not racist.
You obviously didn't watch the video.
@@KindTiffany BIGOTS mixed with lifelong STUPIDITY never do. The South is STILL full of 'em honey.
They have the attentional span of a piece of lint.
You haven't seen STUPID until you've interacted with their mindset and mentality -- all they know is HATE.
They have a million Ignorance EXCUSES to justify their need for HATE.
They call it defending and protecting 'their way of life.'
They call it their Christian values.
They blame it on keeping their communities safe.
They'll viciously and mercilessly DISOWN their own kids -- if they won't 'blindly HATE' other people as a group-identity.
Honey, a LIAR is gonna LIE.
It won't ever make sense -- and they don't need it to make sense to them, they have a 'need to HATE.'
And they'll 'make up' ANY excuse and reason to do so.
Its what the Bible actually teaches as WICKEDNESS and pure EVIL. HATE is a demon -- and it comes straight from the devil himself.
Its not rational. It's not logical. It just NEEDS TO HATE.
There's no version of God's Word [the Truth of the Gospel] where any of us need to be trying to CONVERT or WIN OVER or CHANGE a 'demon.'
The only thing Christ taught to do abt demons [unclean spirits] is to cast those mf'ers OUT.
This BIGOTRY -- its not 'social' or 'cultural', its 'spiritual.'
NOPE. They have earned their legacy.
Like Chicago?
@@nghtwtchmn129 yep. just like chicago. two shitty places. (thought you were going somewhere with that)
They sure have
They earned a reputation now they must lie in it
Trying to use that sweet child to bring revenue to your God forsaken, failing town. Shame.
" user"- MEANS BOT ACCOUNTS
@@ghostmantagshome-er6pb OK sport. I guess I'm a bot then. Don't you know we AI are taking over the world? *wicked laugh*
Double Shame 😢
But your post is stupid. His father isn't using him for revenue. He gets badges across the country, his Dad called Vidor police. You even watch the video before running ya mouth?
@@rgtunderworldrgt7773 I see you want a fight but I'm not going to indulge you. Hope your life gets happier. Have a great day!
Please BLACK Peoples DO NOT TRUST THEM
I’m black if you don’t want to live near me, I don’t want to live near you.
Sounds great!
🤣🤣🤣 How much they paid yall for this propaganda???
Your opinion = 💩💩
In which I am gonna have secks with her in
Exactly! 😂😂😂😂
That part! They not fooling us! 😂
There are still a lot of racism there in vider. Don't let them full you...
Their is hate all over planet earth
They saying that to lure u in 😂
This news looks like a promotional video for Vidor.
fool you
@@kekewallace8163lol it’s like the town is saying “come on down…….we don’t bite”
Isn't there some type of saying like "F*$k around and find out????"
Yeah... This one's a hard no for me . I'll admire y'all's "changes" from afar. 😉
I stopped at roadside cafe in Vidor about 5 years ago. The folks looked hard as I walked in and sit down, but they served me just as any other customer and there was no fuss. When I left the cafe and entered the freeway I was stopped immediately by DPS officers. I was made to get out of the truck, questioned about where I was coming from and where I was going. He said he stopped me because my license plate holder covered up part of TEXAS and wrote me a warning. I haven't stopped there for any reason since.
The city probably has no money since no one ever stops there. We were always told since kids to never stop in vidor tx. The damage is done.
Until we see a community of black people then no thanks it's still going to take 60 years to see change
@@droid4d279 BRUH A HUNDRED YEARS COULD GO BY🤔‼️‼️‼️ I WILL STILL NOT STOP IN
VIDOR TEXAS‼️‼️‼️ 🤔
I WILL MAKE SURE THAT MY CHILDREN, MY GRANDCHILDREN, MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, WILL NOT BE STOPPING IN THIS S*** HOLE PLACE ‼️‼️‼️ 🤔
Wasn't there just a viral video of a Black man who was traveling in that area saying that he was warned to get out of Vidor for his own safety (due to the violent racism)??
Yep, I believe he was delivering freight, and was “kindly”told to not be there after dark.
Yep. And I heard a few different stories of similar things happening to them in or around Vidor. Before anyone should consider living there they should take a few trips to see what it's like. I wouldn't move there
A year or so ago.
Yup wasn't that long ago!
Same happens to white people in brown cities every day. Hypocrisy at its finest....
If you don’t believe us, come see for yourself. That part had me rolling 😂😂😂…ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Nope, sorry it takes generations for towns like that to change. If black families were getting run out in the 90s, that town hasn't changed. Many black truckers talk about their recent issues in that town. Nope, they're needing something or wanting something and running this smoke screen.
Small towns have the biggest hearts and the biggest KLANS
You ain’t lying
AMEN!!!!!
ROTMFF! SMH!
you mad because you have to be included in everything? Yet you don't include us in anything. Hate us cuz you aint us.
Small towns have more white prople because there is less welfare to hand out.
Some people are still not convinced Vidor, Texas has changed. The place still has a long way to go because racism is like a cancer that taints and destroys everything. I don't think the town can ever truly recover. The roots of racism run deep there.
" ...Come visit our city, you'll see exactly who we are. " That sounded like a threat. "I treated him like a human being." Being proud of basic manners is very telling.
Right , they are psychopaths.....
I live near the area and will not go to this day. Hate is hard to exterminate.
I've always said racism is the virus that will never go away. As a black man, let's just say Vidor isn't on my list of places to go, although I'm glad they're at least acknowledging the mistakes of the past and are trying to change things.
It work both ways. Theres parts of Houston you just don’t go to at night. Wards that is.
TheSlfred YES!!!
@@Jason_556 You guys started thus crap. You have no moral integrity high ground with regards to racism.
@@Jason_556The "Wards" hate for different reasons. They will get whomever if given a chance. Vidor is stupidly hating people for something as dumb as the color of their skin smh
You guys out here recommending people go to Vidor. If something happens to persons encouraged by this video, no one is going to take responsibility for that. That means this story and it’s message to the public is irresponsible, and possibly dangerous.
There are no kkk. Name one person in school that was kkk? 😂 I can’t think any. None. Lol.
Oh yeah well a black lady asked my wife they do we live n the hood and how we make our money your race isn’t innocent
That literally goes for any city, any where, at any given time. This is just a story about the past not being their present. To be frank in what you're insinuating, you have a much greater chance of dying in LA and New York by a homeless person than you do going there but we're not talking about that are we?
I'd feel a lot safer there than I would in Detroit or Chicago.
Now You See The Evil In Background Do That With Everything You Know About Your Enlightened Now ‼️
Ecclesiasticus 12:10-11 KJV.
10. Never trust thine enemy: for like as iron rusteth, so is his wickedness. 11. Though he humble himself, and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him, and thou shalt be unto him as if thou hadst wiped a lookingglass, and thou shalt know that his rust hath not been altogether wiped away.
Prayers sent for that little boy. God bless this child🙏
"If you don't believe, come visit our city..."
Me: Sheeeiid
Right😂
Yeah, that statement and his look on his face was NOT welcoming and uneasy.
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😂
Until hell freeze over!
1:37 wow y’all helping one black kid but how many black peoples have been beating up or murder there 😅
To many to count in them folks/race shoulders evils little minds
This town is BROKE! Thats why the sudden change...when black folks stop spending money, or dont vote...then the gaslighting begins...DONT FALL FOR IT!!!
Why We Still Trying To Live Around White People Who Don't Want Us In There Own White Community I Just Can't Understand Why We Can't Build Our Own Community Donald Trump For President Make America Great Again They 2024
Stayed in Buna, TX in 2002, and was always advised not to stop in Vidor and to keep going until Beaumont. Driving 18 wheelers otr, I've changed my route to avoid I10 in that area. I'm not trying to find out if it's changed or not. For all I know the towns finding out minority people money spends the same as Caucasian and that money is drying up. Everywhere you go you'll find racist but it was a different type of racism down there. Beware of your surroundings even in those small towns around orange county. The jasper incident happened a few years before I moved to east Texas but was always told to carry when out at night in any part between I10 Louisiana Stateline to Beaumont. Stay safe folks
As a black man, I'd tell any black person that you're a fool if you think racism will ever go away. It's a virus. So you're absolutely right to do what you do and not stop in Vidor. Let someone else experiment with their life and see just how welcoming Vidor is. I'll go where people are evolved and aren't obsessed with a physical characteristic that I didn't ask for nor can change.
Your so right!
@@J-Win82 I was born and raised in East Texas my brother. I am a 3 Generation truck driver myself. You are talking about a black man named James Byrd who was murdered in Jasper Texas by his too white friends that he was drinking with and they all got intoxicated you know what happens when they get alcohol in their system which makes them want to Lynch a ninja. You get my drift. So retired him behind your truck and drugged him until his head completely decapitated away from his body an authorities found all of his body parts thrown all over the highway where are they drugged him to death. Jasper Texas and vidor Texas is nothing but like 70 to 80 mi from where I grew up. But a lot of these trolls on here want to say that this isn't still happening to this day which is a lie. They have never been enslaved like our ancestors how would it feel to them if they was enslaved by us 🤔‼️‼️‼️
Imagine celebrating Juneteenth in Vidor 😭💀😭
I guess you want a death wish 🤷♂️
@@jdcaldwell5088 Yeah I rather stay alive 😁
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 who said that they ever freed their slaves? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
@@angeladavis2010it’s a slow process but it’s gonna happen
Once a racist town, always a racist town.
In other news. The town of vidor has zero crime.
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@georgekirby3361 No town has zero crime. There use to be a billboard on I-10 in Vidor about how someone murdered this guy. The guys relatives must have put it up. It stayed up for years. You living in a fantasy land if you think that because there are a bunch of racist hateful white people living there that there is no crime. Keep dreaming.
I'm NOT a person of color, but IF U are. Don't go. Just saying🤷♂🤷♂
Isn't everyone a person of color gzzzz when did this word originate?
But vote trump huh
Is that a threat Kyle?
If you are BLACK don't go. There I fixed it for you. That people of color is goofy as heck. 🤦🏽♀️🙄
Explain to us why your saying this please? 🤔
The town must be broke and want Black money🤔🤔🤔
What money? 😂
Don't believe the hype majority of black people do not live in poverty.
@@TheRealCaptainFreedom the money your momma spends to have black 🐔 in her face 😂😂
Yes what money??
@@generalwillwelsh7926 maybe if you and these other 2 dudes up top quit fuckin your sisters in your Alabama mobile homes and look up you'll see that we DO have our own money I'm gonna need you to act like LeBron James exists just cuz we don't spend it on mayo and heroin like you all doesn't mean we don't got it 😂
Man I’m 53 born and raised in South Carolina and I knew about Vidor when I was younger 😅😅😅😅. Hell nawww I’m good!
why didn't they shoot this video at night then?
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i don't trust them at all
Same with yours. Y'all destroyed everything. Just look at the cities.
@@Desertfox14yall have terrorized everyone. People aren't safe at church, the grocery store, mall, a spa, concerts, can't even send your kids to elementary school because of you People.
Not at all
@Desertfox14 No, correct yourself
There isn't anywhere your people have been where murder, chaos and colonizing haven't taken place
there is always a white troll in black people business. get lost deserthound
Before I-10 and before I was born. My father would say Vidor was a place he wouldn't even stop to p.... In the early 90's they tried to keep a black man out of GOVERMENT housing projects 😂. I'm 65 and unfortunately the damage to their rep has been cemented.
If no mistake, he was found dead.
@@trexx98 Oh my GOD, really?
@@wats59 that's not how it went down he went in there to try to desegregate VIDOR TEXAS and he was found murdered in VIDOR TEXAS‼️‼️‼️🤔
LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN BEAUMONT TEXAS, VIDOR TEXAS, AN ORANGE TEXAS WANT TO BLAME BLACK GAMES FOR MURDERING HIM WHICH IS A LIE ‼️‼️‼️🤔 IT WAS NOTHING BUT A COVER-UP ‼️‼️‼️🤔
Local authorities I want to blame his murder on black gangs which was a LIE ‼️‼️‼️🤥🤔 IT WAS A COVER-UP AND TO DETER BLACKS FROM DESEGREGATING VIDOR TEXAS BACK IN THE 90S THAT'S WHAT THE GENTLEMAN WAS TRYING TO DO DESEGREGATE VIBER TEXAS SO BLACK PEOPLE COULD MOVE THERE AND LIVE WITH THEM ‼️‼️‼️🤔
I'm black and stopped at their Anytime Fitness. People were really cool to me at that gym.
Wow! As a truck driver I always heard about this town. I still won’t stop there though. Trust No One🤦🏾♀️🤷🏽♀️
I'm sorry y'all, but I will NEVER go to or even drive through Vidor. In 1992, I got lost and ended up in Vidor. I was treated soooo bad trying to get directions. I was called every name, but the child of YHWH. The police were called, I thought it would get better, but it got worse! I was RAN out of Vidor. It was scary, I feared for my LIFE!! 😢
@@HollyGraham-wl6ye Holly I was really going to lay on you a LONG LONG history lesson, but I decided not to. Instead I’m only saying it WAS 1992 . Think about it, 1992. Thanks
Girrtl, you must be a strong Christian cause the Angel protected you that day. Their demon spirit was uncomfortable in your presence.
If you’re not a strong Christian, after that encounter, you should be.
I’m just saying!
@@trexx98 😇
@@trexx98 religion aint got nothing to do with it. You worshipping the same yt god as the people in places like vidor. Let them folks have their christian god. You better wake up. Our King is YAHUAH that sits on the throne in Heaven
@@louisejones5773 Savior, Redeemer, Bread of Life, Lord, Creator, Son of the Living God, Only Begotten Son, Holy One of Israel, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, King of Kings, The Almighty, Alpha and Omega, Master, Ruler, Lord of Lords Healer, WayMaker, Teacher, Immanuel, Advocate, Judge, Chief Cornerstone, MARY’S SON, Author and Finisher of Our Faith, Lamb of God, Good Shepherd, The Rock, True Vine, PURIFIER, YAHWEH, THE STONE THAT THE BUILDERS REJECTED, Bridegroom, The Lion of the Tribe of Judah, The Bright and Morning Star, Carpenter, The Way, the Truth and the Life, Christ, Son of Man, The Great I ‘Am, The Miracle Worker, Father…whenever we need Him, He Is. Whatever we need, He Is.
He is The One and Only True God. There is no other.
God, Jesus, the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit I will serve and desperately try to obey daily.
“Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven”
Matthew 7:21
People pick and choose what scriptures/verses they want to believe for excuses to do what they want to do for their own sick and evil pleasures; racist or not.
Jesus is coming again, but not to save the lost (we will and are being warned), but to judge the righteous from the wrong. He will do the segregation; not man.
On that day we all will bow before the Throne and give account to all the wrongs we have done.
On that day, people will either live with Him in Heaven eternally or join satan and his angels in hell, eternally.
Its our choice of what we do today, right now, daily here on earth.
We cannot say, “Lord, I’ve never heard about You or Lord, I didn’t know”.
Our decision! We cannot lie or put the blame on our parents, family members, friends or anyone.
We, we made the choice to worshipped and served the creature/created things more than the Creator.
Romans 1:25
“Young black boy”😩 why he can’t just be a child.
My thoughts exactly!
They need to do that for an agenda. It's disgusting.
Now race shouldn’t be mentioned. Funny cause you want race mentioned for everything else. Black girl cooks food. Black man ties his shoes. Black woman graduated school. Black man came home with milk.
so many tear drops on this thread
@@blokcomNativeFacesbut true to form in all of your obsession with black people here you are.
Not one black police officer on their force. Yep, they've changed alright.... No thanks, I'll stay out of Vidor.
That is INSANE that they were still driving black people out in the 1990s!!! Supposedly things were changed in the 90s but obviously that wasn't true. I didn't even know what a sundown town was until watching something on PBS during Black History Month in the early 2000s. Here I thought sundown towns were a thing that ended in the 40s or something. The town I moved to in the early 2000s is listed as a possible former sundown town and I'd believe it.
It's still a rule in my family. Don't stop in Vidor! If you have to use the restroom. Stop in Orange or wait until you've passed Vidor.
It's STILL a hard NO for me.
I get it, but unfortunately the damage has been done. I personally drive past Vidor with trepidation hoping my car doesn’t malfunction. It’s a very real fear. I’ve known for 45 yrs NEVER stop there. I’m not changing it now
I'm 45 and grew up in Beaumont, TX. I was always told to never stop in Vidor... Even if you need gas, you had better fill up in Lake Charles and pray you make it to Beaumont because David Duke lived there. I remember in High School, when I ran track, we had track meets, and Vidor was there; we would sit next to Vidor sometimes on the bleachers; the Vidor students were some of the coolest kids at the track meets. I remember my family saying, " Well, things will get better when their parents die off." 😂😂 I graduated in 98, and I highly doubt their parents are gone yet.
Once a sundown always a sundown, once a racist always a racist! And yes I'm a white woman stating this!
Shut up white-guilt clown.
Don’t.Stop.In.Vidor! Trust me. Let them lay in their bed.
so your saying let the racist people win , sounds like the majority are good people ,
@copyprint-fz2hb Are you one of those “good people”? To answer your question that you posed on my comment above…
“black people have money ??”
Yes, we do. Thanks for letting us know how ignorant you are!
People in Vidor like every small Texas towns just like livin right and being free! Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness!
@@copyprint-fz2hbthere's no majority good people with these people. That's why they're supporting truAmp
dont stop in any black neighborhood in Philadelphia, even if your blick
I had an interesting experience in vidor ,Tx… about 20 years ago I was moving from Ft .Bragg( now FT Liberty) to San Antonio ,Tx. I was changing duty stations in the Army. I’ve never been out of the Carolinas on my own as an adult.I was traveling in my pickup truck towing a small U-Haul trailer… just crossed the border of LA and Tx, a few miles in I caught a flat tire in Vidor. As a young black man I didn’t know anything about this town . I literally stopped on the bridge and walked across to an auto shop. They were open and not busy. I asked if there was anyone available to help me change a tire. I had no tools , and my jack wouldn’t work because I had larger rims on my truck. The guy said he could not help me because they were busy. NO ONE IS IN THE SHOP! I didn’t think anything of it, so I asked if I could just pay to use some tools. I was literally walking distance from their shop and you could see my flat tire. He said no they don’t loan tools out🤷🏾. Still not thinking anything of it, I walked a few miles to the auto parts store to buy some tools. I was able to buy a set of sockets but was unable to buy a jack. Ironically they were sold out.At the time I was a young soldier in the Army and knew nothing about an emergency fund or AAA lol. So I made it back to the truck and of course couldn’t change the tire. I didn’t have enough sense to call my insurance company to get help. So I walked back to the auto shop and asked could they call me tow truck. Still wondering why I couldn’t get help there, guy finally calls a tow truck. Tow truck comes , literally takes me to the next exit…… puts my tire on… charges me $200! WTF 😮 Thankfully I had a credit card 🙏🏾So I make it to San Antonio and a year later I was telling this story to my wife’s Godfather. And that’s when I got the history of Vidor. 😮 lucky for me I broke down in the morning, Lord knows what would have happened at night. Never knew of places like this until that day and started doing my own research. I still till this day will not stop nowhere near Vidor. Good luck changing the perception of that city. I have seen stories online recently from truck drivers delivering there… they get loaded/unloaded quickly to let them get out before it gets dark….Like others are saying, Vidor needs money in their city! So now we’re welcome to go/stop there 💰 💰💰😏. I just thank God I made it out safe 🙏🏾
Yeah, you were lucky and Thank God you are safe.
My first duty station was Ft McClellan, AL. A soldier in my squad was from Vidor, TX and she used to joke about how racist her hometown was, that it was a sundown town, something I didn't know still existed in the 90's. I feel naive that this town hasn't changed.
Glad you lived to tell your story...God bless you!
I used to live in Jasper Texas, which ain't to far from Vidor, and let me tell you. I only lived there for two weeks and moved immediately. It was not safe for me as a black man. And that was only a few years ago. But maybe it's different now. I hope so, I wouldn't move there personally but to anyone that does, I wish you the best. Make sure you stay locked and cocked at all times.
I wonder what would happen to a singular White family that moved into the center of a "community"???
@@ffemtx47 that's a good question and possible experiment. I would however advise against it, the safety of your family isn't worth finding out, perhaps the hard way.
Vidor is not a bad place, in my opinion. My ex-wife grew up there, and I've visited multiple times. At no point have I been harassed or bothered while visiting. Our kids also go visit her grandpa and grandma, who still live there.
I just had to quit a trucking job last week for refusing to deliver in sundown towns. The manager told me I had to take any load no matter what. He was so nasty about it.
And your safe for not going anywhere near Vidor!
Nope. No way.
When I moved to Houston some 30 years ago, one of the first things I heard was never ever stop in Vidor because it is quite possibly the most racist town in Texas & maybe the entire nation. I make sure to never stop in Vidor for anything when traveling. I'm so sorry for that little boy & his illness but it's all BS about the town being friendly & open to people of color.
Its not " ppl of color" it's black ppl!!
I honestly don't see the problem here. There are all black communities in a few cities. There's one in Houston itself. Segregation seems to only be racist when it's one-sided.
Where is the reparations for the people who were ran out 🤔🤔🤔
😢 Lord, I'm lifting prayers for this child of yours. Please, I pray, you give him complete healing from cancer. Yes, doctors know, but most don't know You Father. You're not limited. Give his parents, family and friends strength, comfort, and faith in the days ahead 🙏
Oh my gosh, Amen!!
And his parents a brain.
I couldn't take this video seriously as I have family members who are truck drivers and they have always told me to avoid this area in general. When my family was station in Texas ,we were given security briefings on this town and others when we had to travel. I had a CO said this place was frozen in time so I am not surprised by their attempts at rebranding. I am pretty sure they must be suffering from financial insecurity as federal funds and other sources aren't available to them. They made their bed and now should lie in it .
@HollyGraham-wl6ye it's called taking heed to the warning. NO ONE is interested in experiencing racism first hand so if word and reputation gets around true or not you'll typically avoid.
I actually stopped there in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina and I was creep out as we needed gas . My then fiance was questioned about who were and what's our business there. Once they heard he was service member they were nicer. I thought It was the whole Katrina refugee thing but talking about it with family, we were informed about how lucky we were. Later we were stationed in the Texas and that CO told us not to wear uniforms while traveling in that area. I trust the DOD before someone who is just trolling.
You say that Vidor has changed, and I’ll take your word for it…far away from Vidor. 😂
I’m thinking about creating a modern day green book for to help aid travelers avoid these inbred sundown towns.
Who is saying an all white town is inbred!!! I'm sure they marry people from other cities and towns!!! Now blacks on the otherhand.........
Once a racist always a racist. 🤦🏾♂️
I bet you voted for Biden didn't you. He's a racist.
Nice job trying to sweep the history under the rug just because 1 unfortunate child has brain cancer. God bless his soul, but that doesn't change anything about this town. Vidor fully thrives and prides itself in hate and it will always be that way there, that is how the residents of Vidor choose to live. It's still a sundown town.
So
Amen!!!!!!
Facts! A leopard doesn’t change its spots. Those people live to hate. It’s their culture and their way of life. I will never trust any of them.
Find racism everywhere including in your hoods.
Complete Bull shite. I grew up in Beaumont in the 70's and 80's, fifteen minutes from Vidor.
My mother moved there 10 years ago after my father ran off because that was the only place she could afford to move to since the tax rate was so low and housing prices were still reasonable and still be somewhat close to her job. There are black people working at the Taco Bell, Sonic, convenience stores, pharmacy, etc. and YES they are working at night time. Nobody is trying to k .ill black people in Vidor in the present day. The racist crap absolutely DID exist as far back as fifty to 60 years ago. Most of the racist people have died off. The times and attitudes changed a minimum of over 20 years ago. Stop allowing the past and other people's attitudes to define who you are and how you feel about yourself and your community. If your always looking in the rear view mirror, you cannot move into the future. Stop living in the past, stop allowing other people to move out of the past and better themselves and move forward so you and the nation can try to heal.
Sad part is most us Blacks feel the same way right now 🤣😭😩 I cant even be mad at them. Im in Macon Georgia, its like GTA 5 here all day everyday. Same in Atlanta, the crime is insane
I have two words: BS
Nevermind vidor and the racist people. Prayers up for DJ Daniels. Stay strong kid.
Nah they need to get him out of that crap hole
@@jonshields437using him to push agendas smh
The man with the cowboy hat on that said “… come visit our city, you’ll see exactly who we are.” was a threat!! Those people won’t make it back out
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I agree with you
His expression changed when he said come visit our city and you’ll see exactly who we are.
I agree! No gracias!
He's just a good, old boy. My kind of people.
Did everybody noticed everybody on that police Department where white not one black person that told me everything I need to know about this place?
The town needs our population to keep this town going i bet its damn near closed down and struggling this is the only time they want our help is when it benefits them im cool where did the racist people go everyone hasn't died in 40 years show me any black people on the city council and black mayors black police chief with in the past 40 years that would say it all now show me and ill shut up
Any people who come here would help this town!!!! We don't need black money for that to happen!!! Idiot 😡😡😡 I bet if they advertised that it was an all white town, they would get millions of white applicants wanting to move there!!! Blacks are usually poor anyway!!!
We weren’t born yesterday. We are not going to Vidor, Texas lol
absolutely not, nor any other sundown town.
I agree.