SAN BENITO, Texas (Valley Central) — In honor of Black History Month, a memorial was unveiled Saturday morning commemorating the Valley’s first Black community.
The granite monument was created to honor 559 Black pioneers in San Benito, who lived in the area during the first half of the 20th century.
“Their names will always be here and people will always come here and see their names and speak their names and they will never be forgotten,” said Sandra Tumerlinson, treasurer of the San Benito Historical Society.
The group said other minority groups are also part of the city’s history. They added the monument for the Black community is paving the way for other monuments to be created.
4 comments:
Holy shit! Wait that’s the Cowen family, didn’t they (!yes) have that old plantation house 🏠. An old lady in the Raymondville area too you had some articles years back, her sons were fuck ups. I’m pretty sure this was the annual parade. Governor northem joined , theirs Biden and his dad too. Robert bird, and good ol’ Canadian Justin T in his famous blackface too.
The high school auditorium! I’m sure Jerry McH..was blackened head to toe, I think that pic is Jerry, matter of fact. This was so out in the open the tiptons were probably there.
Juan that’s yesterday (so yesteryear’s) iT’s CaLlEd cUltUrE ApPrOpRiAtIoN.
If you don’t know Texas history during the expansion you don’t know what you’re missing, it gets ugly, brutal, flat out gun slinging, indian raids, Mexico raids on both sides.
How sad.
Only 14.4% of the US population are blacks. Who cares about blacks other than the left wing radicals begging for votes? Blacks dominate the sport of football and basketball earning millions. Concentrate your reporting on Mexicans who aren't good at doing anything other than burning fajitas and drinking beer.
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