Sundown Towns: Vidor, Texas works to restore reputation from being racist
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 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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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.
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.
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 .
@@Butter-p9l Eff Vidor,Texas.
Same! I stopped in Memphis and was harassed about being white. Ugh!
@@pvtschmuckateli283that’s a lie, white ppl are basically relatives to blacks in Memphis
@@sswolfbeard4093 If i understand you correctly what you are referring to is called a "Sundown Town"?
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.
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
It's better the racist you know than the racist you don't know.
@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!!!!!
@@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.
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 🤔‼️‼️‼️
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...
😆😆😆
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'.
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. 😂😂😭😭
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....
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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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.🤨
@@ThinkBeFree99Hispanic not a race, it’s probably more black Hispanics than black African Americans
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
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Exactly. Pink demons
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
No child should ever suffer from cancer!
No child should ever be used by a racist town.
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
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....
I’m black if you don’t want to live near me, I don’t want to live near you.
Sounds great!
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 ‼️
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
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.
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”
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
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.
in jasper not vidor
Um, I'll pass. But thanks anyways.
Right! 😂😂😂
Okay! 👋🤠
Ok!!!!
😅 Same
Scary place at night of course 😅
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.
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
In 2024 It does not even try to hide!
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 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
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.
Ikr
Same 💯
I agree with you.
A brother with common sense
Who is this child’s parents? They need their ssa kicked for using their child!!!!
@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 😢
@@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.
Uh oh here comes the hate ones come out of there caves 😂
@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.
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!
@@tyfdh9 😇
@@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
@@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
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
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.
"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.
😄
😂
Until hell freeze over!
" ...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.....
😢 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 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.
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
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.
Man I’m 53 born and raised in South Carolina and I knew about Vidor when I was younger 😅😅😅😅. Hell nawww I’m good!
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!
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
😂
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.
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? 🤔
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.
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.
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. 🤔
who cares what you think, you probably cant afford to live there anyways
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Please alert other truck drivers.
Them folks are LYING to black folks! Especially them folks race Soldier in that evils klan town called Vidor 😢😢😢
Truck drivers need a modern day green book.
@@daved3948What’s a green book?
@@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.
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
We weren’t born yesterday. We are not going to Vidor, Texas lol
absolutely not, nor any other sundown town.
I agree.
Where are all the black representatives of Vidor? any cops, city council members? Ill Wait!!!
No Asians or Latinos, huh?
Yeah, I had chuckle when I read this
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 true
Well , usually when towns have black reps does it really matter? They are usually outnumbered and are they really black?
@@erikybarra3898nah we’re done with that Latinos and Asians are with them folk. Y’all asses get no more love either!
They could put the biggest as best Bucees in Vidor and I still ain’t stoppin
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
Wow! As a truck driver I always heard about this town. I still won’t stop there though. Trust No One🤦🏾♀️🤷🏽♀️
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
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.
The way he said come and see don't sit well with my soul.
I peeped that too 👀
It's giving "Get Out", don't trust it at all.
Your not wrong 😢
His eyes got big af when he said that very alarming
@@ResseDfa YOU KNOW WHAT THE TRUE SAYING IT THE EYES ARE THE WINDOWS TO THE SOUL ‼️‼️‼️
WHICH MEANS YOU CAN LOOK INTO SOMEONE'S EYES AND TELL WHAT IS IN THEIR HEART ❤️‼️‼️‼️
THE LOOK IN HIS EYES 👀 WAS LIKE PLEASE COME TO VIDOR TEXAS SO WE CAN MAKE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF YOU🤔‼️‼️‼️
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.
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.
“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.
If you don’t believe us, come see for yourself. That part had me rolling 😂😂😂…ABSOLUTELY NOT!
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 🫵🏾😂‼️
😂😂😂
frfr!👏
Facts.
You would not need to tell me twice
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"???
@@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.
I wouldn't trust their agenda.
Y'all better not go there. Change is systematic. I doubt they've made systematic changes.
While Vidor, Texas was just one of many "Sundown Towns" within the South, located just north of Atlanta was the only multi-county "Sundown Region" within the South. That much was true, when according to 1990 census figures, the neighboring counties of Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, and Pickens, were together inhabited by 154,000 white residents and only 1,900 black residents.
Towns like this is why these storms are tearing em down. May The Most High's will be done
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"..
this!!!!!
The census data demonstrates a population decline since 1995.
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!
Hence trying to get people to move there for tax purposes.
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.
@@dskillzhtownright
Look at what the US Census predicts what will happen by 2045.
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 feds need to plant a black cop looking for a job. If no blacks on the force then they have to hire him. If not then bust up the whole department. Believe me that stupid southern crap goes on in some of those small good ole boy towns. If anyone thinks it's just against the blacks there nieve. Say your a Yankee from N.Y. and see the response. I have traveled through out the U.S. alot when I was younger and have seen and worked with the best and worst humanity has to offer. To this day it does exist !! I can honestly say I judge everyone on there character. That said we are way better than this crap. We fight wars shoulder to shoulder but yet we can't be neighbors.
They have a jim crow law in Vidor Texas Black people please don't go out there!
Really, wow
What?!
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!!!
YEP!!
THEY ARE LYING- I heard about this town years ago. Hate filled place, full of Evil.
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. 😨
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.
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.
The race shoulders had something to with it just saying
Yes. This crime was never solved.
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.
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.
They told me last week “we don’t have gas for you” when I stopped . So somebody is lying .
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 😂
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.
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!!!
Vidor, Texas should be a bustling, vibrant growing utopian community with an extremely low crime rate. Why is its population declining? What could it be? 🙄
No jobs, no business to support a young people wanting to a life and family.
@mostunclean6619 The reputation has caused a lot of people to boycott Vida. People tend to shop in the town before or after Vida. Business is drying up there.
No companies or major corporations are doing business in that town.
Their hate. Hate will make you starve because you only want to eat with people like you and that's not going to change your circumstances
Should the population be increasing by lots of unprotected sex, STDs, illegitimacy and single mothers?
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.
But you gentrify the place to get rid of those problems
That' true
Honestly I think since money is drying up there due to income opportunities, they now want to open things up to get the "others" money but honestly don't want you there.
If that’s the case, how come they don’t have not one black police officer on their force
Um, why would a black policer what to work there and be subjected to their racism?
Even the sellouts don’t want to work there 😂😂😂😂
They do now, but he has cancer. That's what they are promoting in this video...right?
My thing is if that town is that famous for having that reputation that they have to go on a news story to prove to people they’re not what people think they are, that’s a really bad place to be and I really don’t know what’s worse. Let’s see how they vote and what their actions really are. Till then I see them eyes and I’m not convinced. 👀
I'm sorry, I've just never seen a tiger 🐅 change its stripes....
🤔 uh not only no but hell to the no yall can keep ya little small town all to yourself fk no .
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!!!
i dont want to be anywhere i am not wanted. how can you even feel safe in a place like that.
Exactly, and these people really think that our dream was Dr. Martin Luther King's dream, but I don't want to be around anyone who doesn't want me around it's just not that serious to me especially ignorant racist.
This is one of the reasons "Stay Woke" came in to existence, because if you sleep on a town like that, you're going to end up dead.
Thank you,,, that’s what WOKE means
shatap
The same thing can be said about the self segregated community all across America but the MSM does not say anything about that. The double standard is real and needs to stop. If something is good for 1 then it is good for all.
Seriously. All of that. 🏆
@drjekelmrhyde The saying is...."you'll wake up dead". That's an old folks saying. 😂😂
Let's keep this 💯
The only reason why those so called changed people are so accepting all of a sudden is because they need money and they're so accepting of that sweet little Black boy who unfortunately has cancer is because they feel that they won't have to deal with him for long so Let's just juice this image of supposed exceptance and love till we're back to where we want to be again, then go back to our Sundown town ways
Them cavebeast demons will never change
Satan has at times come as an Angel of Light also
A demon calling someone else a demon. Hilarious. 🤡
Demons🤬
Same can be said for other parts of Houston. Other way around. You wouldn’t catch me at night at West Montgomery and Victory Dr in Houston. I wouldn’t down there with nothing less than a mini gun. 😂😂😂
@@Jason_556 Something a demon would say🤣🤣
@@40acresandatractor 😂🤣 ok you have a very wide range of what a so called demon is.
the demons are the ones running around with guns & destroying entire communities.
I've been through Vidor for years as a Field Examiner for the VA and for the most part the folks I encountered were great as long as it was during the daylight hours but they also let it be known that I needed to be long gone before dark.
It’s almost like a sheep in the daytime then at sundown they transform into vampires.
That in and of itself is why no services should be working in vidor
@@jonshields437exactly
Well sir that means they weren’t that great of people.
I only see white policeman if I walked into a town where there were only white policeman I'd be kind of worried
I'm black and stopped at their Anytime Fitness. People were really cool to me at that gym.
😂Stay on code and stop tryna get brothers and sisters in trouble. Stay the nyt and come back and tell us all about your experience.
Yeah okay... carry yall azz down there if you want to. Dont be stupid, stay woke!😂❤
We drove though a town in Texas 30 yrs ago, we knew we would be dead if we stayed. Not sure if it was Vidor but there is more than one town in TX like that. You can keep TX. So it's legal to have signs like that. 😮😮
EDIT: I made my comment before reading the others, and “surprisingly” we all pretty much agree.🙄
Nah. We’ll pass. Hard pass! A token gesture towards a child is easy. That town must have a struggling economy and is losing their tax and consumer base. This is the house you built. Whelp. I’ll look up the stats in another 10 years but I ain’t never checking for that town.💯
No thanks. I’ll stay right where I’m at’
Not one black police officer on their force. Yep, they've changed alright.... No thanks, I'll stay out of Vidor.
My headlights went out in Vidor on the way to Houston. I stopped there at the Walmart to get a new one. This was not long after the tall black gentleman was killed. I remember the stares. It was a very uncomfortable stop.