‘We need an updated green book’: Black truck driver shares his harrowing experience in Texas sundown town – By Mikael Thalen (Daily Dot) / May 11, 2022
‘I’ve always been told, ‘Don’t even stop for gas in Vidor, Texas.”
A Black truck driver on TikTok known as Gideon reveals in a viral video what he witnessed last week while traveling through a “sundown town.”
The video, which has been viewed nearly 800,000 times since posting, details the man’s experience while visiting the notorious town of Vidor, Texas.
Vidor was once considered a haven for the Ku Klux Klan and has long been seen as a “sundown town,” a predominately white area that is considered unsafe for Black people after sunset due to racial violence. Although city officials have claimed that the town has undergone significant changes in recent decades, Gideon’s experience reveals that some things still haven’t changed.
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