Mustafa Tameez, a Houston-based Democratic political strategist, is the founder and managing director of the communications firm Outreach Strategists.
The candidates have beat and pilloried one another with innuendo, mud, slander, gossip — and sometimes even a little truth. But think of how odd it would be if, after all that, neither one of our major candidates gets a majority of electoral votes? It's happened before.
As a majority-minority state, Texas gives us a unique picture of what our country faces in the future. How Texans overcome lingering prejudice and de facto segregation in the face of this shifting sense of diversity will be the model for the rest of the country.
Texas may not be at the center of the recent national conversation about the deaths of black men at the hands of police, but our state's criminal justice system is failing poor communities, too. Luckily, there's something we can do about it.
Lush lawns are a waste of time and money and a drain on our dwindling water supplies. It’s time for Texans to rethink this silly obsession.
