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thumbs up to everything; a global yes, presumably.
to racist Mississippi, to black folks getting shafted and not having reliable running water.
to pet judges and the state taking over local policing.
Why the thumbs up?
Explain.
thumbs up to everything; a global yes, presumably.
to racist Mississippi, to black folks getting shafted and not having reliable running water.
to pet judges and the state taking over local policing.
Thumbs up to no statewide representation of AAs.
More law enforcement is good, especially for black communities
Do you need law enforced more in your neighborhood?
Which laws?
WhiteBoy shut up real quick
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same old
https://www.mississippifreepress.org...its-state-flagMississippi radically remade its Cons ution in 1890 with the goal of disenfranchising black voters, implementing a system of Jim Crow laws that included literacy tests and poll taxes, seeking to kill off reforms the North had insisted on in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
In a convention hall where state officials plotted out the new cons ution that September, one state lawmaker, J.H. McGehee from Franklin County, ” gave a rousing speech to his fellow lawmakers’ delight.
“I will agree that this is a government by the people and for the people, but what people? When this declaration was made by our forefathers, it was for the Anglo-Saxon people. That is what we are here for today—to secure the supremacy of the white race,” he said.
To guarantee black disenfranchisement, McGehee said, he was willing to risk disenfranchising some white people, too, noting proposals that would have required people to own property or have a certain level of education before they could vote.
“I will vote for an educational or property qualification if necessary, even if it does sacrifice some of my white children, or my white neighbors or their children,” the lawmaker said. “Too many are trying to whip the devil ’round the stump.”
McGehee then sought to shame his colleagues for not showing more willingness to sacrifice some white people’s rights in the name of white supremacy. He highlighted the sacrifices of a veteran in the room.
“The gentleman from Webster, Mr. (John E.) Gore, was willing to risk his life for four long years—was willing to fight for his country, for property and all that, and yet he and men who had no property were not willing to sacrifice a single vote to save this country from negro domination,” McGehee said.
“Thousands of the gallant sons of the South had no property in slaves or otherwise, and yet they offered their lives to protect their neighbor’s property, and the same noble spirit is now ready for any concession or sacrifice that will secure and perpetuate white supremacy in Mississippi.”
The lawmaker’s speech drew “great and long continued applause” from his colleagues, The Clarion-Ledger wrote then.
Ten years later, the future governor James Kimble Vardaman would bluntly offer his own assessment of the 1890 Cons ution’s purpose: “There is no use to equivocate or lie about the matter. Mississippi’s cons utional convention was held for no other purpose than to eliminate the n*gger from politics; not the ignorant—but the n*gger,” said Vardaman, who was known as “The Great White Chief” for his steadfast defense of white supremacy.
https://boltsmag.org/mississippi-jac...tor-elections/Mississippi Republicans this week advanced a bill that would carve out a new judicial district within the capital city of Jackson. It would wall off predominantly white sections of the majority-Black city from the control of its elected Black leaders and create a new court system with prosecutors, judges, and police appointed by the state’s white leaders.
less power to the people
https://www.mississippifreepress.org...ckson-takeoverMississippi voters could soon regain a more limited, citizen-led ballot initiative process under Senate Joint Resolution 533, but with a catch: They could not use it to “propose any new law or amend or repeal any existing law relating to abortion.” The House Cons ution Committee added the prohibition on abortion-related initiatives as it advanced the bill on Tuesday.
Though Mississippi is the state that led the successful effort to overturn Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court, polls show that a majority of Mississippi voters disagree with the decision and do not support broad abortion bans like the one in effect now. After anti-abortion activists put a wide-ranging “Personhood” abortion ban on the ballot in 2011, which also could have outlawed some forms of contraception and in-vitro fertilization, voters rejected it by a 58%-42% vote.
After voters approved a medical-marijuana program by ballot initiative in 2020, the Mississippi Supreme Court struck down the ballot initiative process on a technicality in 2021, which killed efforts to use it to expand Medicaid and implement an early voting system. The old system allowed voters to use the ballot initiative system to make changes to the state cons ution; the new system would only allow voters to make changes to general law. While pe ioners previously had to gather a little over 100,000 verified signatures to put an issue on the ballot, they would need to gather about 240,000 under the new system.
issuing a TRO on a newspaper ordering it to delete an op-ed critical of local government without a hearing suggests incompetence or criminal malice
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