So. My name is Robert. I actually comment as randomliberal (though I don’t comment anywhere all that often), but I sign my blog, Random Liberal, as Robert. My partner in crime–Joshua–and I had gone about five months without posting there until last week; hence, the dearth of posts. Sorry. We’re slackers. We mostly post about politics from a personal point of view, although I think that my portion of the blog is going to become more of an international affairs/politics blog.
I’m a college student at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas. TCU is an incredibly monolithic campus. An enormous proportion of the student body is upper-class and white. It’s also “Greece” away from Greece. About half of the undergraduates are in a social fraternity or sorority. To make things even better, I have been recently informed that Tarrant County, where Fort Worth is located, had the second highest proportion of voters in the entire freaking country pull the lever for Bush.* Yeah. Sometimes I feel kind of lonely here.
I’m going to take this opportunity to plug an event I attended last week during my Spring Break. I was in Austin for an anti-death penalty alternative Spring Break. It was an opportunity for high school and college students (and non-students who could manage to get a few days off) to learn about the death penalty and learn how to take direct action. Last Tuesday, the 15th, we went to the state capitol and held a rally, then went inside to talk to our legislators. As you can imagine, we were not very successful in reaching the legislators, but we were able to talk briefly with some of their staff members. While we may not have had much of an effect on the representatives’ opinions on the death penalty, it was at least a good experience on lobbying the legislature. For more information on the activities of the week, or to learn more about the fight for a moratorium on the death penalty in Texas, go to the Texas Moratorium Network’s website.
My thanks to Lauren, who is awesome for doing this experiment today.
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*For those who don’t know, the county with the highest proportion of Bush voters in the nation is some obscure southern California county. I’m having trouble remembering the name, though…that one blogger guy Kevin Drum lives there…also I think there might be some sort of TV show on the DubyaB network…and it’s possible that some random ska bands are from there…why can’t I remember the name…?