Lubbock: America’s Worst Mid-Sized City
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Lubbock is a truly dreadful place in all conceivable ways except for one. That one is not its tolerant politics.
Lubbock officials are re-evaluating security and working with local and federal investigations after what Mayor Glen Robertson described as an “Arabic flag” spent much of Monday dangling from the city-owned Citizens Tower in downtown Lubbock.
After evaluating the situation and blocking traffic on a portion of nearby Avenue K, city crews cut down the flag shortly after noon, sending the flag and the two cinder blocks used to stabilize it crashing onto the red brick street near the dilapidated building.
The flag, noticed on the building early Monday, prompted Robertson to write a letter to City Manager James Loomis, requesting Lubbock police notify the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office.
“I am also requesting that we take whatever steps are necessary to secure the building and ensure that this does not happen again,” Robertson wrote in the letter he shared with A-J Media. “I fully understand that we must gather more facts before we make a knee-jerk reaction but I am concerned on several levels. Please keep me informed as we learn more about this situation.”
The black flag, which featured script over a red heart, was hanging over the edge of the roof of the building at 14th Street and Avenue K.
Syrian native Hasan Almekdash, 35, is an Arabic language instructor at Texas Tech. Almekdash moved to this area in 2012; he said he has never experienced any type of Islamophobia, but he can see how the display did not go over well.
“Literally translated, it says ‘love is for all,’ ” he said.
And here I thought Isis was totally taking over Lubbock and probably the entire Panhandle as part of its scheme to destroy America, probably through Jade Helm.
That one way Lubbock is good is its contributions to American music, with Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Buddy Holly, and even the one and only Mac Davis from there.