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My homies, for good or ill: 14 year old in Tyler explains Constitution to dumb redneck

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Having grown up in Tyler, there are moments when I must admit to finding myself embarrassed of my hometown, and others when I'm quite proud of people there.On the embarrassed side, this letter to the editor wishing harm would come to the families of criminal defense attorneys struck me as one of the most mean-spirited things I've seen in a while. As evidence there are few people as dumb as an East Texas redneck, the author declares, "You didn't see Perry Mason or Matlock take on a case of they knew the perp was guilty."Yeah, and John Wayne never got off his horse to take a pee.But there are still plenty of Tylerites who make me proud, and one of them is 14-year old Temple Mims, the daughter of a local criminal defense lawyer who offered this response mopping the floor with the letter writer, informing her that Matlock and Perry Mason were fictional, and that "My father defends the Constitution of the United States of America...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 16, 2008 (boomark / email).