Sundown Towns: Vidor, Texas works to restore reputation from being racist

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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[@TRIPLEDIGITS]

Where did the racist people go? They didn't disappear.....

[@BeardmanVaush]

They're all at the Trump rally.

[@carolynstokes333]

Amen. But now they are all of a sudden......morphed into good non-racist people. Shiddd

[@dskillzhtown]

That's what I am saying.

[@Legend-tq4pn]

😂 that’s a great question

[@BeardmanVaush]

@@Legend-tq4pn They're all at the trump rallies.

[@mr.ohdime4240]

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!

[@Feb1960s]

Look like all of texas is like this IMO

[@blazenben]

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

[@fashiondiva6972]

@@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

[@blazenben]

@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 🙏 🤲 🕍

[@blazenben]

@@fashiondiva6972 my comment was blocked. All I can say is I disagree... I am from killeen... the places to go they removed.

[@deva190]

It's better the racist you know than the racist you don't know.

[@MrJeremyLewis81]

@deva190 that's the problem with the PNW. We don't know who they are until it's too late. And FYI, stay out of Idaho!!!!!

[@deva190]

@@MrJeremyLewis81 You have to grow up and go to school in primarily white areas. Especially rural areas. I guarantee you will know the good ones from the racists. Problem is so many black children are confined to majority black urban neighborhoods. And YES, land and homes are sold to black people in white rural areas EVERYDAY. No excuse.

[@AmourLondyn]

They're pretenders. I'd rather them show their real colors

[@derp8575]

There is literally not one shred of video evidence that sundown towns still exist. There are cameras practically everywhere. I will literally bet you thousands of dollars. You and I will go to an alleged sundown town and livestream the whole event for your personal safety. We will interview locals and look for proof for the existence of sundown towns. If we don't find any, you win the money. If I win, I win the money. Let's see if you're willing to put money on your beliefs. Gut instinct and experience tells me you wouldn't dare wager against me.

[@beamingglow3246]

A racist is a racist

[@MsGemini]

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!!!!

[@almaross2626]

My episode happened during the day too.

[@matthewclay6535]

*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*

[@francoanthoney1993]

Great, planning a trip soon. Ignorant folks crack me up lol

[@Sabbathissaturday]

I’ve never had any problems in far East Texas. Very friendly folks.

[@jeremiahsams2848]

Don't go to any fas station in the inner city.

[@jonshields437]

Aint no black people going to vidor

[@CMeri-sl6bt]

Naw fr. You fill up in Houston and you don't stop till you make it to Lake Charles. 😂

[@kuug6060]

No! No! Nooo! It's a set up!

[@georgey-b6080]

Same here! 😂😂😂

[@DaduWheat]

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.

[@Coco6407]

@@CMeri-sl6bthell yeah. I charged up my Tesla way before reaching Vidor. And certainly don’t speed along I10 while passing thru.

[@dontatme-j9r]

Is anyone here from the trucker who just passed in Vidor? Black, hanged, and ruled as a suicide. That guy who said, "Come visit our city, you'll see exactly who we are," sent chills up my spine.

[@runwiththeqase]

That allegedly unalived himself because of his grandad passed away?

[@kingsalomi7480]

Two people just got lynched there.

[@BlackDeath920]

💯. I felt like it was a trap.

[@dontatme-j9r]

@@kingsalomi7480 yikes. I wonder if this makes two or three hangings within a short period of time in Vidor now. May be so many more. Apparently, this is happening a lot throughout the south.

[@aubrays]

This is horrific 🥹

[@sallybender7900]

Let them live with the reputation they have earned.

[@karenchandler2921]

Amen!

[@markaddison4642]

Truth in real-time. Only reparations heals.

[@Digger-Nick]

@@markaddison4642 Clearly not when they are worse than ever in 2024

[@markaddison4642]

@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.

[@scaramouche8244]

Reputation for no crime I bet

[@railroado1238]

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.

[@droid4d279]

Until we see a community of black people then no thanks it's still going to take 60 years to see change

[@JerrylWare]

@@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 ‼️‼️‼️ 🤔

[@gregp706]

I’m black if you don’t want to live near me, I don’t want to live near you.

[@derp8575]

Segregation was normal for most of history. Sorry that you fell for communist lie of DEI.

[@pkp6791]

@@derp8575 Segregation is one thing, but WP are so deeply pathological that they burn down and destroy whatever BP build and hoard anything worth having for themselves. They think they should have everything and nonwhites should have nothing. Pure evil!!! Totally sick!

[@stan_senior]

@@derp8575the problem with segregation was blacks weren’t afforded equal protection under the law.

[@yunglife1244]

It's funny you always hear whites say go back to Africa. I found it very funny my last trip to Africa the airport was flooded with those same type of white people. The irony 😮

[@locnetic]

I'm 43. I've known to leave Vidor alone all my life, and I'm sticking to that.

[@stacieboyd9895]

I'm 53... and it is the exact same for me. I've even told my children the same. STAY AWAY at ALL costs!

[@haydn-db8z]

@@stacieboyd9895 That's what we're starting to say in Dallas, but because of the community.

[@williamhodges3941]

Well I'm 18, any of them whites try that, an dirt nap is next to come.....

[@jdcaldwell5088]

Smart man that town is not for FBA family

[@vanillapudding9471]

Ok, let’s not be stupid!!!

[@J-Win82]

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

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

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.

[@karenchandler2921]

Your so right!

[@JerrylWare]

@@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 🤔‼️‼️‼️

[@texas_trill_guy_5677]

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."

[@urzmontst.george6314]

Christian Love in the Bible Belt.

[@ashleebyrd9797]

Sounds like the show 'Them'.

[@BAngel-kr2ty]

Then go home to the mother land. Let me know who is being racist then. It will be a ⚫⚫person! BUT you can no longer WHINE and COMPLAIN. 😂😂😭😭

[@derp8575]

How many YTs are murdered in the USA every year by blax, and how many blax are murdered by YTs. You'll find that information on FBI Table 43. We totally aren't the problem here. Since yall need to keep feeding that demonic victimhood mentality, yall have to deny the reality of the racial breakdown of crime rate stats. It's really fascinating and terrifying to watch. Complete brainwashing. Demonic possession is the best way to put it. Someone who's not possessed can allow new information to replace the old. A possessed cannot. A possessed mind relies on emotions because feelings are more important than facts.

[@DJC48205]

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)??

[@mso1ful]

Yep, I believe he was delivering freight, and was “kindly”told to not be there after dark.

[@truthhurts...6574]

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

[@makayahmilani2232]

A year or so ago.

[@qorgan3268]

Yup wasn't that long ago!

[@vincebu6441]

Same happens to white people in brown cities every day. Hypocrisy at its finest....

[@dimpleface2163]

Yeah...they're broke....To hell with that. They can have it.

[@dskillzhtown]

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.

[@georgiasweetpotato7170]

​@@dskillzhtown It really does I bet Isaiah wouldn't step foot in Vidor TX 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@JerrylWare]

@@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 ‼️‼️‼️ 🤔

[@sparklesp9304]

That's what a lack of diversity and hatred gets them...

[@Freddie-tw4bd]

WOKE RACIST HATEFUL PEOPLE LIKE BIDEN,THEY WILL LIE TO YOUR FACE JUST TO USE YOU AND HURT YOU..TRUST THEM NOT..

[@DeliveryDuoMax23]

Once a sundown always a sundown, once a racist always a racist! And yes I'm a white woman stating this!

[@scanman975]

Shut up white-guilt clown.

[@derp8575]

Virtue signal duly noted.

[@helios2664]

@@derp8575 Racist duly noted.

[@derp8575]

@ Ad hominem duly noted. Please show one video evidence for the existence of sundown towns. You can't do it because they no longer exist. You are paranoid and delusional. Please get help.

[@Missuwillluvme]

It’s still racist especially police … I say this as a greyhound driver who has had bad experience just driving through

[@ItsMyOpinion-sd2iz]

Truck drivers can say the same

[@mickeydooley2230]

Lies

[@chrhadden]

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?

[@10MM-MAGAMAN-420]

Nice

[@azion1433]

I Hope it stays white

[@The.End.Begins24]

I wouldn’t go anywhere near that trash town.

[@lydiablake-simon7555]

Guess what in the whole state of Texas, Vidor is not the only town like that is anybody surprised? 😂

[@getreal4real169]

@@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

[@IslandmonGanjamon]

Who is dis kids parents?the kid getting used as a tool

[@dustinthomas7052]

@@getreal4real169that’s what I’m saying and watching the 1998 jasper dragging documentary disturbs me

[@MicroTex23]

Dear Lord touch this beautiful boy with a clean bill of health remove the cancer from his system, giving him an opportunity to have a full life..Amen.

[@mrsrichard7835]

They want your $ but WILL make your life miserable I guarantee it!

[@francoanthoney1993]

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

[@alntr2872]

YES!!!!!

[@samuelakasam]

Exactly

[@realrelle3440]

💯💯

[@KJ-df9oz]

Exactly. Pink demons

[@bucs03sd]

Send a black guy with a white blonde woman on his arm and see how much they have changed

[@radicalizedoffline1103]

BINGO BONGO BANGO😉

[@LivinLucky65]

Send a black guy with a white blonde woman on his arm to the hood and see how things haven't changed.

[@CM-xo3oy]

@@radicalizedoffline1103

[@truthiscensored]

And let the whyte woman accuse him of something...

[@kuug6060]

😆😆😆

[@JourneyOfCin]

Well this didn't age well, there's a missing BLACK TRUCK DRIVER last seen in VIDOR. Stay away from Vidor !!! they are STILL A SUNDOWN DOWN!

[@ladywolfsiobhan]

Um, I'll pass. But thanks anyways.

[@jesselynnethornton6016]

Right! 😂😂😂

[@07ikkin]

Okay! 👋🤠

[@AngelDiva]

Ok!!!!

[@clariseharrington8252]

😅 Same

[@cjfamily5838]

Scary place at night of course 😅

[@wiredsparx]

NOPE. They have earned their legacy.

[@nghtwtchmn129]

Like Chicago?

[@n1rvana_]

@@nghtwtchmn129 yep. just like chicago. two shitty places. (thought you were going somewhere with that)

[@karenchandler2921]

They sure have

[@JuanRatliff-b2j]

They earned a reputation now they must lie in it

[@missmallory1523]

As a native Texan who has just now heard of Vidor, you will not catch me going there. My mother who is also a native Texan always told me you can tell how someone is by their eyes, and that man in the black hat has evil eyes. Evil is alive and well y'all, praying for everyone who reads this to find love which is only found in Jesus.

[@duaneelliott5194]

Native texan? If your ancestors came from europe you ain't native 😂

[@ebuildingconcepts]

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

[@Successismyname78]

It’s their typical behavior. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.

[@candice446]

Every place in the United States had to start somewhere. However, I don’t think the start should have been with a child.

[@realrelle3440]

💯

[@KJ-df9oz]

​@@candice446you should move your family there and keep us updated.

[@jcchambers7896]

​@@KJ-df9oz nah frfr

[@Bfoxy4life]

Small towns have the biggest hearts and the biggest KLANS

[@jdcaldwell5088]

You ain’t lying

[@angeladavis2010]

AMEN!!!!!

[@jaycesmith7899]

ROTMFF! SMH!

[@cknorris3644]

you mad because you have to be included in everything? Yet you don't include us in anything. Hate us cuz you aint us.

[@richard7479]

Small towns have more white prople because there is less welfare to hand out.

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

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!!

[@Butter-p9l]

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 .

[@MYBESTSOUNDS]

Really

[@derp8575]

Indeed it is learned. Ask the blax.

[@Noble_Jedi83]

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.

[@W.J.M.]

ok, I'll believe your random word without proof.

[@ceceprincess4758]

Atleast he got a warning

[@Tyrone950]

Sure

[@Noble_Jedi83]

@@W.J.M. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWqTdmpvfshleZIsi=t0McoFkaYN1WMD57

[@Noble_Jedi83]

@@Tyrone950 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWqTdmpvfshleZIsi=t0McoFkaYN1WMD57

[@NekoM-jz6lw]

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!

[@legendary8838]

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

[@DavidBadger-nq2hm]

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

[@madmaximilian5783]

​@@DavidBadger-nq2hmjust take a look at the Texas Governor...I rest my case!

[@silviadeleon8365]

@@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.

[@NotYoung3592]

I agree, there needs to be as exclusive communities. as those exclusively black communities to feel safe anymore....

[@pete7665]

I was working in Beaumont and my company got me a hotel room in Vidor. I went to the store at around 11 pm and I wondered why all the white people were looking at me crazy. The next morning I went to meet with the head of the housing authority, he was a kind black man. I told him the company got me a room in Vidor and my experience the previous night at the store. He looked at me crazy then told me to go get my stuff and he was making them get me a room in Beaumont. I wasn’t scared because I’m from Texas and we never leave home without our guns.

[@istoesconde9484]

Youre mexican ?

[@pete7665]

@@istoesconde9484 I’m Native American and Spanish.

[@istoesconde9484]

@@pete7665 lol a tejano. Dude you are not a lick of spanish. Just say mexican. You look very native

[@pete7665]

@@istoesconde9484I’m 85 percent Apache and the rest colonizer blood. I don’t care what you think I am because I normally don’t acknowledge peasants like you.

[@pete7665]

@ I’m Apache and colonizer Spaniard. I don’t care what low class people like you think. I usually don’t talk to broke people like you either unless they are filling up my plane. Enjoy your mediocre life

[@vidalott]

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.

[@magalover2024]

There are no kkk. Name one person in school that was kkk? 😂 I can’t think any. None. Lol.

[@dianetan5790]

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

[@infini.tesimo]

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?

[@azsegrxdhtfgvijnkomlewrhtg9508]

I'd feel a lot safer there than I would in Detroit or Chicago.

[@PuRpLeDr3mz]

Now You See The Evil In Background Do That With Everything You Know About Your Enlightened Now ‼️

[@analikab5631]

Don't go where you are not wanted

[@mikusoxlongius]

Isn't that the same sentiment that got Scott Adams vilified? Doesn't seem very equal...

[@parler8698]

That applies to all people, everywhere.

that's why I stay out of Baltimore and DC

[@zacsparksbmx33]

Love to see it. All the best to that young man in his battle

[@TheAlfredPlatform]

I live near the area and will not go to this day. Hate is hard to exterminate.

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

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.

[@Jason_556]

It work both ways. Theres parts of Houston you just don’t go to at night. Wards that is.

[@alntr2872]

TheSlfred YES!!!

[@alntr2872]

@@Jason_556 You guys started thus crap. You have no moral integrity high ground with regards to racism.

[@TexasBorn_TexasRaised]

​@@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

[@offtheblock4798]

Don’t.Stop.In.Vidor! Trust me. Let them lay in their bed.

[@copyprint-fz2hb]

so your saying let the racist people win , sounds like the majority are good people ,

[@mrsrichard7835]

@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!

[@Faithnothope]

People in Vidor like every small Texas towns just like livin right and being free! Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness!

[@Feb1960s]

​@@copyprint-fz2hbthere's no majority good people with these people. That's why they're supporting truAmp

[@chrhadden]

dont stop in any black neighborhood in Philadelphia, even if your blick

[@G.Martinez916]

If you are black walk into one of their bars at 10pm-midnight for a drink and let us know how friendly those people are🤠

[@richardthetroll6758]

There are still a lot of racism there in vider. Don't let them full you...

[@jeorgedavid3239]

Their is hate all over planet earth

[@kekewallace8163]

They saying that to lure u in 😂

[@cosmoray9750]

This news looks like a promotional video for Vidor.

[@writerconsidered]

fool you

[@offtheblock4798]

@@kekewallace8163lol it’s like the town is saying “come on down…….we don’t bite”

[@sswolfbeard4093]

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.

[@Butter-p9l]

We know this they think that we are stupid enough to go there .

[@urzmontst.george6314]

@@Butter-p9l Eff Vidor,Texas.

[@johndough6206]

@@pvtschmuckateli283that’s a lie, white ppl are basically relatives to blacks in Memphis

[@apphappy3796]

@@sswolfbeard4093 If i understand you correctly what you are referring to is called a "Sundown Town"?

[@KnucklesWTD]

⁠@@pvtschmuckateli283Memphis is 23% white that doesn’t compare at all lol

[@LockedNloadEED]

Prayers sent for that little boy. God bless this child🙏

[@wats59]

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.

[@tyfdh9]

If no mistake, he was found dead.

[@karenchandler2921]

@@tyfdh9 Oh my GOD, really?

[@JerrylWare]

@@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 ‼️‼️‼️🤔

[@JerrylWare]

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 ‼️‼️‼️🤔

[@tangelabedford8083]

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

[@robsawyer8034]

THey want black dollars, which will cause you a swift demise. Avoid it at all costs.

[@Priinsu]

1:24 I drove through here before when I was PCSing in the military from Virginia to California. My mom and I drove and even before then, I already knew about Vidor, TX. We're from Houston, TX so we stopped there and I drove the rest by myself. But, I got chills actually seeing the signs for Vidor with my own eyes.

[@samuelakasam]

1:37 wow y’all helping one black kid but how many black peoples have been beating up or murder there 😅

[@jdcaldwell5088]

To many to count in them folks/race shoulders evils little minds

[@derp8575]

@@jdcaldwell5088 Yall literally have no proof. Meanwhile, yall literally rob, rape and kill us more than we do to yall. It appears that we do in fact have a supremacy problem in this country, but it ain't YT.

[@royaljewel2634]

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

[@TheMessysister]

😂

[@karenchandler2921]

I agree with you

[@WAY2RIL]

His expression changed when he said come visit our city and you’ll see exactly who we are.

[@pacotoyful]

I agree! No gracias!

[@patjohnson742]

He's just a good, old boy. My kind of people.

[@darrellenglish2898]

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.

[@Mikefrom843]

Nevermind vidor and the racist people. Prayers up for DJ Daniels. Stay strong kid.

[@jonshields437]

Nah they need to get him out of that crap hole

[@ResseDfa]

@@jonshields437using him to push agendas smh

[@ssgwright7419]

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!! 😢

[@ricardofierro7041]

@@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

[@tyfdh9]

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!

[@ssgwright7419]

@@tyfdh9 😇

[@louisejones5773]

​​@@tyfdh9 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

[@tyfdh9]

@@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

[@dacommish23]

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!!!

[@melissas4874]

I'm white and I'm not interested in Vidor. East TX is just west LA. Think about the reputation of East TX towns like Vidor, Jasper, etc and then think about the rep of extremely rural parts of Louisiana.

[@cazbantu4233]

I don’t blame you, i remember in the 90s the mayor tried to integrate a housing projects they called her all types of names and threats everyday. We only stop to get gas and leave.

[@SniffaThumb]

I'm white too and wonder why this story was concocted. How about attempting to restore reputations in Memphis, Atlanta, Detroit - and other areas that used to be much safer for citizens. 🤔

[@shellz831]

who cares what you think, you probably cant afford to live there anyways

[@txoilfield]

@@SniffaThumb Excellent point. I lived in Orange, had to move because of repeated black crime-burglary, arson, property destruction and car theft. These all happened to me in two years. Black DA refused to prosecute. Lets talk about WAY-CISM.

[@shadowfax9177]

​@@SniffaThumbI was wondering the same exact thing. I've had family that lived in predominantly black areas, where white people were targeted, especially after dark. Yet no one ever mentions that.

[@doctordl7757]

🤣🤣🤣 How much they paid yall for this propaganda???

[@codecaine]

[@BeardmanVaush]

Your opinion = 💩💩

[@Raytracer96024]

In which I am gonna have secks with her in

[@Successismyname78]

Exactly! 😂😂😂😂

[@NekoM-jz6lw]

That part! They not fooling us! 😂

[@kikichronicles]

If you don’t believe us, come see for yourself. That part had me rolling 😂😂😂…ABSOLUTELY NOT!

[@esharenee4186]

He is basically saying, come FAFO how what you say is still true! 😂

[@offtheblock4798]

That’s crazy. I always heard this was a racist town growing up as a child AND to never stop there. To see a mini documentary about it is astonishing. However, I’m not taking my black ass out there to find out.

[@ceceprincess4758]

Ikr

[@Successismyname78]

Same 💯

[@karenchandler2921]

I agree with you.

[@jdcaldwell5088]

A brother with common sense

[@hypernovatv911]

I stopped in vidor about 10 years ago without knowing the history. I stayed overnight in my tractor trailer and went into Walmart in the morning. I felt a creepy vibe about the place because people were looking at me with these evil smirks on their faces. I’ve seen that look enough times to know stay away from people like that. About a year later, I was listening to SiriusXM and a comedian recounted his experience of going there and how it was a headquarters for the KKK. I haven’t been there since and I don’t plan on ever going again. I don’t care what they say on this video.

[@tyfdh9]

Please alert other truck drivers.

[@jdcaldwell5088]

Them folks are LYING to black folks! Especially them folks race Soldier in that evils klan town called Vidor 😢😢😢

[@daved3948]

Truck drivers need a modern day green book.

[@tyfdh9]

@@daved3948What’s a green book?

[@hypernovatv911]

@@tyfdh9 I think a green book was a book of safe places that Black people could stop in the south. You needed that so you know where it was safe to stop for the night and eat. Otherwise you might get lynched. In modern terms it’s like a bed-and-breakfast. Most of these places were just friendly Black people shared their own with other Black people.

[@Walking-Contradiction]

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.

[@danaripley1200]

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.

[@derp8575]

Stop encouraging them to come there. Crime WILL go up and property values down. It happens everywhere they go.

[@Dapieman99]

Once a racist…..ALWAYS A RACIST TOWN!!

[@MadAtEmOutdoors]

Cry

[@babavoss261]

You're the one crying loser​@@MadAtEmOutdoors

[@shinyamada488]

@@MadAtEmOutdoors+ That black guy driving with a white girl must have pissed you off lol

[@g.g1217]

​@@MadAtEmOutdoors Cry for what? You're not important.

[@MadAtEmOutdoors]

@@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

[@LatoyaMungon]

Please BLACK Peoples DO NOT TRUST THEM

[@NoNickname-b7y]

Trying to use that sweet child to bring revenue to your God forsaken, failing town. Shame.

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

" user"- MEANS BOT ACCOUNTS

[@NoNickname-b7y]

@@ghostmantagshome-er6pb OK sport. I guess I'm a bot then. Don't you know we AI are taking over the world? *wicked laugh*

[@jdcaldwell5088]

Double Shame 😢

[@rgtunderworldrgt7773]

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?

[@NoNickname-b7y]

@@rgtunderworldrgt7773 I see you want a fight but I'm not going to indulge you. Hope your life gets happier. Have a great day!

[@beatsbyjoeezy1440]

They need money they not racist no more 😂😂

[@bigclarity1017]

Exactly broke azz

[@patrickwest6876]

What a stupid comment and you can't even write properly!

[@bhall19875]

Bingo

[@gustavon.1444]

black people don't have money tho.

[@carolynstokes333]

They are still racist. Too many comments saying they are still that way. I believe them. Thanks but no thanks

[@blackant51]

Man I’m 53 born and raised in South Carolina and I knew about Vidor when I was younger 😅😅😅😅. Hell nawww I’m good!

[@barebones2001]

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.

[@carymyner5692]

So

[@carolynstokes333]

Amen!!!!!!

[@Successismyname78]

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.

[@Tyrone950]

Find racism everywhere including in your hoods.

[@unrulypeasantr3911]

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.

[@lawrencestrickland3519]

i don't trust them at all

[@Desertfox14]

Same with yours. Y'all destroyed everything. Just look at the cities.

[@marimarielove]

​​@@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.

[@glorymosbyfloyd3878]

Not at all

[@glorymosbyfloyd3878]

​@Desertfox14 No, correct yourself There isn't anywhere your people have been where murder, chaos and colonizing haven't taken place

[@lawrencestrickland3519]

there is always a white troll in black people business. get lost deserthound

[@gemmaallen3792]

I’m from New Zealand and a few of us are travelling through America and this was one place we were definitely warned not to travel through lol we aren’t black but we are tan skinned like a Mexican color but still told not safe to travel through Vidor, Texas by multiple Americans. We were like um ok these kinds of places still exist in the world in 2024 seriously?! 😬

[@vthomas2313]

I'm NOT a person of color, but IF U are. Don't go. Just saying🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

[@roygoldman308]

Isn't everyone a person of color gzzzz when did this word originate?

[@dianetan5790]

But vote trump huh

[@simono.954]

Is that a threat Kyle?

[@royal_rootz]

If you are BLACK don't go. There I fixed it for you. That people of color is goofy as heck. 🤦🏽‍♀️🙄

[@MsAchampion]

Explain to us why your saying this please? 🤔

[@jesselynnethornton6016]

"If you don't believe, come visit our city..." Me: Sheeeiid

[@Mystique_Missy86]

Right😂

[@medusasunshine4705]

Yeah, that statement and his look on his face was NOT welcoming and uneasy.

[@kendrickbell8525]

😄

[@aprilwagner8172]

😂

[@jdcaldwell5088]

Until hell freeze over!

[@adamw3573]

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. 😉

[@bronzebard3852]

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 .

[@liyahn2373]

​@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.

[@bronzebard3852]

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.

[@blessedlauralee]

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.

[@ARISZN]

Exactly.

[@Rosmondeu8]

Vote Blue, they want that time back again and by law.

[@ThinkBeFree99]

And Hispanics & Native Americans

[@barbara2646]

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.🤨

[@romanrevenge58]

@@ThinkBeFree99Hispanic not a race, it’s probably more black Hispanics than black African Americans

[@fendellmallery6620]

They told me last week “we don’t have gas for you” when I stopped . So somebody is lying .

[@schrondaclark4727]

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.

[@Plum_bird]

“Young black boy”😩 why he can’t just be a child.

[@chuckw302]

My thoughts exactly!

[@Desertfox14]

They need to do that for an agenda. It's disgusting.

[@strongislandhandyman5712]

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.

[@blokcomNativeFaces]

so many tear drops on this thread

[@marimarielove]

​​@@blokcomNativeFacesbut true to form in all of your obsession with black people here you are.

[@rembassmaster]

Right BUT having a all black Neighborhood in GA is ok? Of that you have to be BLACK to own a house there BTW this going on NOW not 20 years ago or even 70 years ago. Yea this going on NOW. Funny you did not do a segment on that. Why?????

[@theeric]

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.

[@1goldbaby]

Its not " ppl of color" it's black ppl!!

[@airbornetrucker9464]

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 🙏🏾

[@karenchandler2921]

Yeah, you were lucky and Thank God you are safe.

[@BmanB73]

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.

[@Rosmondeu8]

Glad you lived to tell your story...God bless you!

[@deidrerichmond9363]

GOD IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO PLAY WITH HIS PEOPLE. ❤

[@pdubb7749]

I wouldn't trust their agenda.

[@derp8575]

Take your meds, schizo

[@feliciacrowley3685]

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.

[@Butter-p9l]

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.

[@UrbanOutlaw713]

That’s all it is. Lack of diversity leads of lack of cash todays world

[@SGreen-nm4xv]

@@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.

[@feliciacrowley3685]

@@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.

[@irmafacundo7107]

Yep I know the looks.....bullshit it hasn't changed has everyone died moved or jail haha? It takes centuries to change....

[@wisteria777s7]

(4:43)Bull----! Texas is a BIG state filled with a lot of 'small towns' like Vidor! LOOK at the lack of diversity in their police department! 🤨

[@Mister-Reno]

Look at who's the ones saying "Vidor is not the same place it used to be" YOU CANT CHANGE WHAT'S IN THE HEARTS, MINDS AND SOUL OF PEOPLE.

[@shinyamada488]

But you gentrify the place to get rid of those problems

[@karenchandler2921]

That' true

[@codecaine]

Too hard to trust that place.

[@karenchandler2921]

Amen

[@ntokozosibanyoni1421]

😂Nah, they going broke and finally want them black dollars. HELL NAH!! You don't deserve em.

[@Dani-qh6ho]

Look up the story about the young biracial high school football player that was found dead on the train tracks in Vidor. You can’t convince me someone didn’t get away with murder. What was sad was that his own mother just took whatever the police told her.

[@jdcaldwell5088]

The race shoulders had something to with it just saying

[@FYI-ThingsYouMightHaveMissed]

Yes. This crime was never solved.

[@1goldbaby]

She was probably afraid..and it's really sad that this country leaders do nothing or address the issues they'd rather send billions to other countries killing up their own ppl.

[@Butter-p9l]

My cousin went to some town deep in Georgia , and because she speaks very o well and sell homes they called her an uppity N-word . She's now back in West Palm Beach, Florida. I ask her what made her go there anyway . she also said that the black people act like they don't know that they are free ., they hold their heads down when talking to white people , their behavior was like they were afraid so, I believe they call her that because she didn't bow down to them.

[@someonewhoknows1000]

😢 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 🙏

[@karenchandler2921]

Oh my gosh, Amen!!

[@tiffanycotter9675]

And his parents a brain.

[@yhshira_locs]

But there is a missing black truck driver who stopped there. His truck was still there with him no where in sight.

[@soufwesthoustontx]

Y'all better not go there. Change is systematic. I doubt they've made systematic changes.

[@MichaelHalsell]

The census data demonstrates a population decline since 1995.

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

So they want black people probably because they're running out of money. It's no different than the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. The only reason we won that if because the bus company was running out of money, not because they all of a sudden started liking black people. Maybe I'm just being cynical and maybe they really have changed in Vidor, but I won't be stopping there to find out. Let some other black person experiment with their life!

[@dskillzhtown]

Hence trying to get people to move there for tax purposes.

[@ent1311]

If your population is decreasing in 2024 there is something seriously wrong. They probably want to draw minorities there so they can selectively enforce the law. They can add revenue to their coffers by fining minorities. If any minority is from there tell us how it's like.

[@Sweetdreamz313]

@@dskillzhtownright

[@mac4782]

Look at what the US Census predicts what will happen by 2045.

[@Jesus-The-Everlasting-Father]

I don't blame them, they just wanna keep what Europe is , organize and clean.

[@SweetT601]

lol lol Europe is no different than the US there are good and bad people. Evil doesn’t have a race!

[@BIGSCORPIOSHANNA]

Europe don’t even kno they exist!! A lot of Europeans countries think that the United States are dumb and I blame the south for that cuz even the northerners think that they are dumb as well!!!

[@BIGSCORPIOSHANNA]

Europe don’t even kno they got exist!! A lot of Europeans countries think that the United States are dumb and I blame the south for that cuz even the northerners think that they are dumb as well!!!

[@CanePollFishermon]

I live in Beaumont Tx right across the river from Vidor, we use to fish in Rose City and there was a sign saying "N" Don't Let The Sun Set On You and there was a dummy hanging from a tree when I saw that it was over for me after that, my dad laughed he said that was has been there for years, I was ready to go I wrapped my pole and set in the car the rest of the day, after that when we would go fishing I'd ask where we were going if they said over much as I love to fish I never went there again. I'm 62 now and when I pass there on I-10 it gives me goose pimples. 😨

[@tyfdh9]

A long old time person known in the area sometimes gets a pass. But I hope he told his son he cannot go alone; anytime.

[@sidneya.4330]

Hard pass on that field trip 👎🏾 Here’s my advice for the uninitiated, when you’re on I-10 East and you see the exit for Vidor…keep going 🫵🏾😂‼️

[@Successismyname78]

😂😂😂

[@sweetbeauty2153]

frfr!👏

[@elianayisrael82]

Facts.

[@karenchandler2921]

You would not need to tell me twice

[@Bizzczar]

Wait! “Blacks refused to stop for gas”!? Your wording is purposely provocative, to stoke controversy not conversation. 3:02

[@OGJaquarPrincess]

Who is this child’s parents? They need their ssa kicked for using their child!!!!

[@dwightmurray9763]

@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……

[@Seemydimples]

​@@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 😢

[@dwightmurray9763]

@@Seemydimples 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.

[@OGJaquarPrincess]

@norahelaine6041 absolutely NOT!! Has nothing to do with Pride. They would have to change it without putting a black face on it. THEY made it that way, THEY need to fix it.

[@SGreen-nm4xv]

Fr!

[@ReviewwattpadbokLook]

They have a jim crow law in Vidor Texas Black people please don't go out there!

[@rondas7772]

Really, wow

[@intricatelytangled]

What?!

[@FIN-x9m]

Once a racist town, always a racist town.

[@derp8575]

Once a failed culture, always a failed culture.

[@Jaye_Beaumont]

It never changed. The only time they don't trip about it is black Friday because of the revenue. Growing up in Beaumont we learned about that city early.

[@louisejones5773]

Towns like this is why these storms are tearing em down. May The Most High's will be done

[@1goldbaby]

So true and they can't see it or put it together..still thinking " they are superior" hate black ppl soooo much but yet let the red carpets out for the real " enemy"..

[@ARISZN]

this!!!!!

[@derp8575]

Operation Popeye. It's a fact that the government has been controlling weather since the Vietnam War. If anything, God needs to sends strong storms to the inner cities. Then again, bad idea. Best not give 'em a reason to loot.

[@Bongani-ft2nj]

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.

[@ffemtx4]

I wonder what would happen to a singular White family that moved into the center of a "community"???

[@Bongani-ft2nj]

@@ffemtx4 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.

[@cnovonty]

Where are all the black representatives of Vidor? any cops, city council members? Ill Wait!!!

[@erikybarra3898]

No Asians or Latinos, huh?

[@karenchandler2921]

Yeah, I had chuckle when I read this

[@angeladavis2010]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 true

[@1goldbaby]

Well , usually when towns have black reps does it really matter? They are usually outnumbered and are they really black?

[@positionadjust353]

@@erikybarra3898nah we’re done with that Latinos and Asians are with them folk. Y’all asses get no more love either!

[@TexasTribleChief]

Imagine celebrating Juneteenth in Vidor 😭💀😭

[@jdcaldwell5088]

I guess you want a death wish 🤷‍♂️

[@TexasTribleChief]

@@jdcaldwell5088 Yeah I rather stay alive 😁

[@angeladavis2010]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 who said that they ever freed their slaves? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Justme-su5gd]

😂😂😂

[@hectorgarcia8691]

@@angeladavis2010it’s a slow process but it’s gonna happen

[@MichelleyChelle]

Not one black police officer on their force. Yep, they've changed alright.... No thanks, I'll stay out of Vidor.

[@caridadhilaire2048]

No, and thank you very much. There is a big world out there and I don't have to visit your town. A snake is a snake!!!

[@karenchandler2921]

YEP!!