Vidor, Texas

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‘We need an updated green book’: Black truck driver shares his harrowing experience in Texas sundown town




ABlack truck driver on TikTok known as Gideon reveals in a viral video what he witnessed last week while traveling through a "sundown town."

The video, which has been viewed nearly 800,000 times since posting, details the man's experience while visiting the notorious town of Vidor, Texas.

Vidor was once considered a haven for the Ku Klux Klan and has long been seen as a "sundown town," a predominately white area that is considered unsafe for Black people after sunset due to racial violence. Although city officials have claimed that the town has undergone significant changes in recent decades, Gideon's experience reveals that some things still haven't changed.

"Pretty much everybody I know in Texas that's Black tells me, 'Do not go to Vidor, Texas,'" Gideon says. "I'm like 'OK' but here I was in Vidor, Texas."




The TikToker goes on to state that while driving to his destination to drop off his load, he came across numerous trailer parks with Confederate flags and even a doll of a Black man hanging from a tree by its neck.

Upon reaching his destination, Gideon says that he was approached by a security guard who immediately alerted his fellow workers that they were experiencing a "code red." The security guard expressed that he did not want to be responsible for the truck driver's safety by allowing him to drive further into the business to drop off his delivery.

Gideon says another man eventually appeared about 15 minutes later to quickly help him unload his truck before urging him to leave the area.

"He said, 'Dude, you might want to get up out of here as soon as possible. We're at sundown. You want to leave now.'"

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