The November 2023 issue of Texas Monthly contains an article that deploys the archetypes of our great anti-capitalist, government-supremacist, domestic imperialist passion play so deftly it could be a Hollywood movie: “Black-Owned Land Is Under Siege in the Brazos Valley.” A siege is an act of war. Who is waging war on black Texans and how are they doing it? The article’s subtitle explains: “Acre by acre, families have lost long-held property near Bryan and College Station—much of it to the efforts of two men who weaponized arcane documents to acquire plots potentially worth millions.” The...
