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February 27, 2007
Local Pride
On this, opening day of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the metropolitan area (specifically Katy) had the good fortune to be featured on Jon Stewart's Daily Show. The subject of said Daily Show piece was enough to make every Houstonian brim with pride. (Check here for posting of the video.) Yes, those Katy pig races are back, and now all of America knows the story.
Local readers will recall the flap out in Katy over a local Muslim group's plans to construct an Islamic community center and school on a piece of property surrounded by farmland. Needless to say, local neighbors are not enthused about the proposed building, offering complaints ranging from legitimate concerns about changes to the neighborhood to unabashed racism. Some members of the Muslim group clearly fanned the flames with some of their own comments.
Doesn't all of this cast the Houston area in a flattering light? Should we feel slighted that the Daily Show reporter had the audacity to refer to Katy as a "tiny town", rather than the suburban Houston community that it is? After such a glowing report, don't we want the whole world to know that's us?
Yikes.
Posted by houtopia at February 27, 2007 10:27 PM