Common Sense

I was going to write a whole post about the lynching resolution here in McLennan County yesterday, but I got hung up by work and a bad headache. I guess I saved myself from writing about the same thing twice because there is another story today: The County Commissioners have reached a compromise.

The ongoing tug of war over the display of an anti-lynching resolution adopted by McLennan County commissioners continued Wednesday with the resolution getting a new home in the County Records Building.

As Tuesday’s chapter of the saga ended, Precinct 2 Commissioner Lester Gibson placed the resolution in the courthouse rotunda for the second time that day. Earlier, commissioners Joe Mashek, Ray Meadows and Wendall Crunk had walked out of a meeting during which Gibson was seeking again to display the resolution in the courthouse. Gibson then placed the original resolution, passed May 23, under clear plastic and affixed it to a podium, which was near a rotunda mural of a hanging tree and noose.

Commissioner Gibson wanted it in the rotunda of the courthouse, so they’re putting it in the Hall of Records. Wait, that doesn’t sound like a compromise at all. I’m sorry, my pain meds haven’t kicked in yet so I’m cranky.

On Wednesday morning, courthouse security officers removed the resolution again on Lynch’s orders, saying the podium posed security concerns for the courthouse.

Because with a podium around, people might just break out into a speech. Now who’s being the asshole? The whole point of displaying the resolution was for people to get that lynching people was bad. Picture of a noose, resolution condmening lynching… seems like a no-brainer to me. Why did they even adopt a resolution if they don’t want people to know about it? Is it because they were just placating some vocal people and they don’t actually care?

My guess on that last one is ‘yes.’ Which makes them spineless twits who lack the courage of their convictions, or probably any comvictions at all.