A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn't an isolated event — it's part of a national pattern

A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn’t an isolated event — it’s part of a national pattern

  • pingveno
    8•10 months ago

    Holy crap, I was just reading his Wikipedia page. He is such a piece of shit. His wife died of cancer in May 1968. Her doctor had told him, not her, of the diagnosis in 1961 and he kept it secret from her. I knew about the segregation stuff, but that is just the shit frosting on the shit cake.

    • @[email protected]
      1•10 months ago

      So his first wife was 6 years younger than him, which is fine especially considering the time period, but she would’ve been only 35 at the time of the cancer diagnosis, then 3 years after she died he married a 32 year old woman at age 52, divorced when she would’ve been about 40, and later a country music star with no Wikipedia page, but presumably also pretty young.

      Seems the dude had a “use by” date on all of his wives and tossed them away once they got too far past it

    • @son_named_bort
      1•10 months ago

      What made it even worse was that she was technically the governor when she died. Alabama had a law back then that prohibited governors from serving consecutive terms. However, there was no rule against a woman running for governor. So George got his wife Lurleen, who had cancer at the time, to run for governor in his place. She won, but everyone knew who the governor really was.