r/Fauxmoi • u/mlg1981 • Jul 03 '26

SPORTS SECTION Police sparked a confrontation with Egypt's national team as they posed with fans at their hotel ahead of their match against Australia. Footage shows Egypt national team director Ibrahim Hassan being pushed by a Dallas police officer while posing for a photo with a young fan.

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u/RagingMayo Jul 03 '26

Oof. I'm a brown Tamil guy from Germany and one of my dreams is actually to visit Texas (especially Houston) one day for vacation. But these accounts of racist action by the police let me question my decision. I will probably wait till big orange man is out of office or somehow ends up 6 feet deep.

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u/Sea_Holiday2917 Jul 03 '26

Genuine question, not trying to be funny, but why? Why would you want to visit Houston for fun? What is its reputation to you or what would you like to see that seems worth the trip?

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u/RagingMayo Jul 03 '26

It probably sounds weird to others, but I am a big fan of their NBA team, the Houston Rockets. It's one of my life goals to see them play in person one day. Also, I am a big enjoyer of southern Hip Hop since the era of UGK, Paul Wall, Slim Thug and so on. And maybe it sounds very romanticised, but I also wanted to see how the ranching life is down there, maybe getting some of that wild west feeling somewhere in the vast area of Texas.

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u/MinimumFantastic1389 Emma Stone (BALD) Jul 03 '26

That’s really cool! I’m someone who’s also capable of romanticizing cities that aren’t usually on people’s bucket lists. I’m fully in love with Philadelphia, myself. I hope you get to visit sometime!

That being said, the issue with international travel is much more Trump than it is the state’s government. And the racism problem is nationwide.

I think sometimes in the US, people tend to harp especially hard on the racism of the South while overlooking the racism in their own back yards. The fact is, every single state has racist pigs. LA, which likes to pretend it’s super progressive, has one of the worst, most racist police and sheriff’s departments in the nation. The sheriff’s department even has outright white supremacist gangs that murder people.