El Jardin: The Texas Beach You Didn't Know Existed

 

If Don’t Mess with Texas was a walking woman

Her name…

Representative Jasmine Crockett

 

She stands at 5 foot nothing and maybe 110lbs on a good day. But this Mighty Mouse has been cleaning house ever since she was voted to the United States Congress (2021). She holds no punches and shoots from the hip by saying what everyone else is thinking. She makes those soulless, ruthless, moneygrabbers who’ve been lifetime seated in Congress accountable for their actions or inactions. She’s probably most notably known for her alliteration verbal beat down of Representative Marjorie Taylor Green when she called her a “bleach-blonde-bad-built-butch-body” during a House committee meeting last year.

We take the mantra “Don’t Mess with Texas” serious around these parts. She is living proof; you don’t want to wrangle with an angry rattler. Because she represents Texas, I think about the Black women pioneers of the Wild West who took no mess. Women like Mary Field (Stagecoach Mary), Susie Summer Revels Cayton, Abby Fisher, and Bridget “Biddy” Mason. These women emigrated from the South to the West and contributed to the advancement of the West from creating schools, starting business, established towns, and took on dangerous jobs. Susie Revels was the daughter of the first elected African American to the U.S. Senate. Stagecoach Mary was a postal carrier who would carry two guns to ward off potential robbers. She was known as a quick shooter with a bad attitude. The list could go on about these trailblazers.

Although many of these women were pistol packing women, Crockett follows in their badass legacy. She may not be packing a pistol, but she’s certainly packing a rapid-fire tongue. The bite-size politician came with an education in law from the University of Houston Law Center. She lets her rhetoric fight the battles of all that is democracy and righteous for the American people. Perhaps she gets her rhetorical language from her father who is a teacher and a preacher in St. Louis. And just like Stagecoach Mary, her mother, Gwen is a former postal worker. Hopefully, she didn’t go postal on anybody.

Apparently, her outspokenness has positioned her to be the spokesperson for Democratic Congress as she’s the only one placed in front of a mic. In the words of James Brown, this is a man’s world, but it would be nothing without a woman or a girl. Unfortunately, a patriarchal society leads the way in tearing up the world and making Earth a ghetto with a presidential “thug” as Crockett titled Donald Trump, depleting the United States. It is then a woman’s responsibility to right-side-up the wrongs of male leadership who put their own self-centeredness of greed, vanity, narcissism, and all the other deadly sins before the people who voted for them.  This is not to say a woman won’t do the same, but THIS woman is leading with ethical values and morality.  

Crockett comes from a familial legacy of a commitment to service, so it’s no doubt she allows her fearless rhetoric to craft a path that involves serving the people of Texas and the United States. BANG! BANG!