Dennis Joyce, State Chairman of the Southern Independence Party of Texas (SIPT) explains that the executive committee recognized the political impact of minorities in Texas in the beginning and began looking for people to help lead the party in a direction of serving the general public and not just a White constituency.
While current political considerations are important, explains Dennis Joyce, historical considerations matter also, especially to Confederate minded individuals. Indeed, besides Whites, there were Black, Hispanic and Indian troops from Texas who fought valiantly for the forces of the Confederate States of America. We have records of both Indian and Hispanic officers in the Texas C.S.A. military during the war of Northern Aggression as well as hundreds of Blacks who volunteered.
In the spring of 2001, the executive committee voted to add the office of Vice Chairman of Minority Affairs and, they elected unanimously Rodney Brown III to that voting position on the State Executive Committee.
Rodney is a very advanced computer technician and software programmer who operates his own Computer business in Dallas, Texas, contracting services to other companies. Rodney served with the 82nd Airborne Division in Desert Storm as a communications Specialist. He is big man who is also a well read and informed historian who will quickly set you straight if you begin to tout the glories of Abraham Lincoln or parrot the NAACP propaganda line. He knows the real cause of the war was economic repression by Northern corporations, merchants and banks through high tariffs and unfair taxation as well as the socialistic appropriation of most of the tax revenue for Northern public works projects building up Northern infrastructure at the expense of Southern needs.
In considering the demographics from the U.S. Census of 2000 which shows Texas with 11.4% Black, 31.2% Hispanic and 3% Other population, Mr. Brown states that he knows he can influence a number of Blacks of the benefits of the SIPT, especially those who know of their own ancestors who fought for the South. The party hopes to find a qualified Hispanic to assist in minority representation, because the overall non-white population is 45.6% and increasing. Mr. Brown lives in Dallas where the Black and Hispanic populations are nearly equal totaling over 41%; thus a fertile political field to plow.
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