Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
(Above—The Amirta Sher-Gil painting Three Girls. It was painted in 1935.)
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
A blog grows one reader at a time. If you like what you read here, please consider forwarding the link.
Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
I can be reached at naa six one eight at att dot net
Thanks for reading Texas Liberal.
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A college friend of mine passed just a few months ago, at 48 of a heart attack. He could have taken better care of his health, yes, but that made my grief no less profound to see him lying in a coffin.
He was the most honest guy I ever knew. He saw no distinction among people of color, or gender, or class. As a result he was the most popular fellow everywhere — class president in high school, fraternity president in college (first African-American one ever). Later on we lost touch and I heard through mutual friends that he had married (a white woman, naturally) and had children and grandchildren.
I wasn’t going to vote for Obama in the general election; he disappointed me greatly on several things by not being sufficiently progressive enough, but particularly on FISA. And living in Texas enables a person to have a bit of a clearer conscience about undervoting the presidential (or voting a third-party). But after Jerry died, it pained me to know that he wasn’t going to get to vote for the first Afocan-American president.
So I’ll cast my ballot for him, for Obama.
Oh, and I’m not at all tense about the outcome.
Pdiddie–Glad you are on board with Mr. Obama and that you feel poitive about the outcome of the election.
I guess I’ll have to waith until the votes are counted until I’m sure of the outcome, but I have always felt the right course was to vote for Mr. Obama and see if we could move ahead in our country.
If Senator Obama turns out to be lousy, it might be hard to maintain much faith in our system. Our problems are quite pressing and need a helpful response from our leaders.
It is hard not to see this election as very significant…it is telling that a big concern about Obama is the fear that he might let us down. Makes me sad that our leaders have not all stood up.
I do believe in prayer, and think it is appropriate in this situation, but I also see the need for hard work and smarts. It ia a very interesting year.
Liked the post on the early elections, too.
John Kennedy said in this life His work must truly be our own.
Thanks for the kind comment.
Let me first say that I only started reading your blog today, and I definitely like what I am reading. I live in a small, solidly Republican area, and it is good to see that there are blue voters in Texas. I have become increasingly interested in Texas politics lately, especially from the good ol’ days, when Texas voted Democratic. That being said, I am too young to remember much of what she did, but for the past few weeks, I have had this overwhelming sense of “if only Barbara Jordan could see this.” I wish we had more politicians like her today to stand up (or sit, in her case) and speak up for minorities and against what has happened to our Constitution in recent years. I think she would have liked Senator Obama.
Ms. Ellis–Thank you so much for your nice comment and for reading the blog.I think Ms. Jordan would have lved to see Mr. Obama. That’s a good point you make in bringinr her up at this time in history.