A hard-to-find fuel cloth strewn inside the Texas Capitol and depicted military wielding weapons and cannons on the rear wall of the Senate room. At the Battle of San Jacinto, where nearly 900 Texas troops defeated a far larger group of soldiers from the Mexican army in just 18 days, is a significant time in the Texas Revolution.
General Sam Houston, whose horses was really shot out from beneath him, is depicted in one of the most well-known Henry McArdle images in the body, being beckoned by an “unnamed and armed help” offering him a fresh install. Eighteenth-generation Texan Brooks Warden, who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto almost 200 years ago, is claiming the secret man from his own unique and significant battle.
Warden, age 21, is a plaintiff in a years-long lawsuit alleging that repeated racial abuse by students and school officials in Texas ‘ Austin Independent School District violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
” From the age of 12 until the close of high school, I was physically and emotionally attacked because of my culture,” I said. Being a bright Christian, conservative men, I was beaten. They threatened to kill me and orally abused me daily”, Warden told The Federalist.
Warden was unknown up until now because of his minority status when the petition was brought. Now that he has passed the teenage years and has a new case filing with the U.S. Supreme Court, Warden is prepared to address the extreme bullying that faculty and peers endured.
” I know what I believe, and I won’t get swayed. I’ve taken blows to the mouth for defending the U. S. Constitution”, he said. Always did I fear to express my opinions. I was terrified to stroll down the rooms, though”.
Battle Marks
The abuse began in October 2017 when Warden, a teen, arrived on a make-America Great Again hat during a middle-school outside field trip. By the time he graduated from middle school in May 2018 ( wearing the same iconic red cap ), Warden said he had been taunted as a lover of school shootings, scolded for” the evils of the white race in American history”, called” Whitey” by a teacher’s aide, and depicted by a fellow student in a meme as a “hooded Ku Klux Klansman”.
Warden’s families repeatedly intervened for him, but the class never heard back. He claimed that the middle class superintendent had repeatedly promised them that she would stop the incidents, but that by spring 2018, she had also joined the bullying. In one example, Warden recalled the main proceeded to “rip my headsets out of my lips and said,’ Are you listening to Dixie?'”
Warden claimed that the executives never treated me with disrespect and disrespect for my family. ” Only the appearance I did get walking down the hallway, never from learners, but from teachers. I did receive death glares from teachers, assistant principals, and principals if I used the term — I detest using it.
Warden left O. Henry Middle School for Austin High School, the “oldest consistently operating public high school in Texas.” He received little consolation. That, he said he was called “school gunman” for concentrating one of his jobs around the Second Amendment, smeared as a “f-cking racist”, and “punched”, “kicked”, and” thrown to the ground” — apparently over his body color.
The student attacked me in school and told his friends that he had beaten me because I was a white child. His terms. And the city has not refuted that”, Warden said.
The executives in the mainly Democrat, Hispanic-heavy area, according to Warden, when afterwards did nothing to stop the harassment. Another day, an English instructor mocked Warden by asking,” ‘ Are you listening to light church song?’ in a very humiliating tone”. The songs in question had a delicate fusion of what Warden claimed were generally songs by Andy Griffith and Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Warden claimed that the schools ‘ “make an example out of me” decision encouraged another white Christian conventional kids to self-censor out of fear that they might end up with scars on their heads like Warden. It also prompted them to continue the negative behavior toward him.
Additionally, the experiences encouraged him to adopt his faith more.
” I have a very, very powerful and individual relationship with Jesus Christ. When all of this began, I wasn’t much of a believer, but Warden pointed out that I could not go through this alone.
The Covid-19 stress started to spread quickly after a student reportedly threatened Warden with a threat to “kill all Trump followers” and the blue city’s schools were shut down. Warden had a simple excuse to switch to homeschooling for the rest of his high school career due to the chaos.
The suffering he endured at the hands of AISD, however, did not disappear.
” I was 12 when adults started to verbally attack me, people that should be there to protect and teach, and it’s changed how I look at everything”, Warden admitted. I prefer to look at everything from a fight or flight perspective. I simply have a hardened heart. Really sad to say, but it’s true”.
Warden left the AISD system nearly five years ago, but he is confident that other people’s harassment will continue, especially given that some of the same faculty members who left the dogpile continue to work in Austin’s schools. Warren, a self-proclaimed” car guy,” claimed he saw his former principal’s car sitting in front of his former middle school when he drove by recently.
Another Chance at Victory
Warden’s experience in AISD prompted him to sue. The district court responsible for deciding Warden’s case, however, quickly dismissed it, alleging a failure to state a claim. The panel for the Fifth Circuit endorsed this opinion. In an en banc review, an evenly divided panel of Fifth Circuit Appeals judges also claimed that Warden’s case did not qualify as race-based harassment.
Judge James Ho lamented the hasty dismissal of his fellow judges in his dissention, noting that Warden was “harassed on multiple occasions for multiple reasons— but being white was absolutely one of them.” He went on to write that “our culture today increasingly accepts ( if not celebrates ) racism against whites”.
” So it’s not surprising that more institutions are beginning to think they have cultural permission to tolerate ( if not to encourage ) racism against white people under the guise of promoting diversity. Racism is now edgy and exciting — so long as it’s against whites”, Ho continued. ” But cultural permission is not Congressional permission. Title VI and other federal laws prohibit discrimination based on race. In some circles, this may be politically correct because white people face discrimination. However, “politically correct” does not imply “legal correct.”
Attorneys cited Ho’s points as a reason the Supreme Court should weigh in in the writ of certiorari petition filed by the Center for American Liberty on behalf of Warden on Monday.
The petition states that” the en banc concurrence impliedly held Brooks to a higher legal standard because he is white, as Judge Ho correctly observed.” The en banc concurrence’s application of a higher standard, according to Judge Ho, reflects the same error as the Sixth Circuit in Ames, imposing a higher legal standard on plaintiffs from majority populations, and this Court’s decision could affect the outcome of this case.
The Spirit of San Jacinto
The spirit of San Jacinto reigns in Warden, nearly two centuries after the battle that secured Texas ‘ independence from Mexico. Ho made hints in his Fifth Circuit dissent that he may be battling a much larger cultural norm, but he hasn’t yet made a comeback.
Warden is actually encouraged and energized by the cultural shift that is already occurring under the second Trump administration.
” Before, I used to fear getting a brick thrown at my head, only because that happened so much. Now, the left, they just seem tired of throwing bricks at people and yelling,’ You’re a racist,’ and everything that I was called and told every day of my school career, from 12 till 2020″, Warden said.
AISD has 30 days to respond to the Supreme Court petition. Warden will continue living as usual in the Lone Star State until then or until the high bench decides whether to rule on whether Warden can file racial harassment charges even though the plaintiff’s political views were the “primary impetus” for the harassment.
Despite the abuse he endured during some of his most defining years of life, Warden has come to be a successful young man. He has his own auto business, spends his free time honing his history skills, and has just recently performed a duet with his father at the Grand Ole Opry.
Warden undoubtedly went through some battle scars along the way, but like his Texan ancestors, he is aware that no matter how outgunned and underrepresented by the legal system he may be, he must continue fighting for justice.
The Federalist staff writer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jordan Boyd. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordanian completed her political science major at Baylor University and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
