A bit of context.

Prairie View A&M is a historically and predominately black university in a predominately black town stuck square in the middle of a very good ol' boy oriented county, about 40 minutes west of Houston.

As anyone who has traveled the highways of this (usually) great state can tell you, the minute you leave the city limits of any metropolitan area, you are quickly transported upwards of 50 years back in time.

To think that the placement of the polling stations in this county was anything but a deliberate slight to the students is naive. Given the choice between a white woman and a black man, there is still a sadly oversized chunk of population in this state that will swallow its pride and grudgingly vote for the woman.

As mentioned above, donuts and driver's licenses are not civil liberties, but the right to vote is, and, as with the rest of the constitution that forms our legal foundation, should be defended at all costs.

P.S. Something I like to remind people in general, George W. Bush IS NOT from Texas. He was born in Connecticut, raised in Connecticut, educated in Connecticut, then woke up with a hangover in Texas one day and decided not to leave.

(Posted from the University of Texas at Austin, on a computer 4 minutes away from the polling station I took advantage of just yesterday)