Category: Race Relations
Remember the Lott-Thurmond Flap? Here’s a Primer.
Soon after the Jackson Free Press launched in 2002, Sen. Trent Lott came out with his infamous Strom Thurmond gaffe. If you want a refresher course on that racial gaffe, among others of Lott and other candidates pandering to white supremacists in Mississippi, read the Jackson Free Press piece, “Our Boy Trent”. It caused quite a stir at the time, presumably because things like the “southern strategy” and the Blackhawk Rally weren’t discussed much in public, or in the state’s newspapers, way back then.
Posted by ladd at 01:27 PM on 11/28/07. Discuss (2)
[JFP] JFP Rescinds Endorsement of Democrat David Blount
Posted by ladd at 10:10 AM on 11/02/07. Discuss (1)
[C-L]Possible national push to fund cold civil rights cases in lieu of Seale trial
The Clarion-Ledger is reporting that Congress is currently considering funding cold cases from the civil rights era through the Justice Department. Kansas City civil rights activist Alvin Sykes believes there must coordinated and simultaneous investigations, which former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones agrees with wholeheartedly. Jones, who successfully prosecuted another civil rights case, is quoted in the article as saying that ”federal coordination is needed because the department has ‘all the files and all the resources. We have to come together before it’s too late.’” The push for prosecution of these old cases increased after the look back at the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers.
Posted by kate at 10:53 AM on 06/15/07. Discuss (0)
[JFP] The ‘Mississippi, Believe It’ Campaign, Rethunk
Stop the presses. The Jackson Free Press is patting Clarion-Ledger folksy columnist Orley Hood on the back this week for challenging the “paranoia and xenophobia” of the “Mississippi, Believe It” ad campaign. Read a very long blog thread (in which we re-fight the War of Northern Aggression), and the editor’s note this week, “Of Paranoia and Xenophobia.”
By the way, this is what Orley said in his column about the campaign that the JFP agrees with so strongly:
It is, I suppose, all well and good, defending our territory, talking up our heritage of great writers while ignoring our heritage of illiteracy. As polished and professional as the campaign is, theres just that little bit of paranoia and xenophobia that shows through when we so vigorously stand up to what we see as unfair criticism from outsiders.
Posted by ladd at 06:50 PM on 04/05/07. Discuss (2)
[Blog] Wonkette Disses Mississippi Easter Egg
So, Wonkette Inc.--we hear there’s an Army of Wonkette clones over there these days--is dissing every state’s Easter Egg this week. Um, cute. But her/their comment about Mississippi’s egg seems to be about as original as selling your blog to a corporate blog entity.
Here’s the snipe: “If you just said, Hey that looks like something the doctors pulled out of Trent Lott, then give yourself a racist pat on the back, because this egg is from Mississippi!” It would be one thing if the egg had the Stars & Bars on it, or “We Heart Strom” or even the embarassing Mississippi state flag, but it’s just a flowery egg design. It seems the mere mention of Mississippi brings to the Wonki’s minds the idea of Trent Lott and racism. To their small-stuck-way-up-their-butt minds, that is.
Put it this way: It would at least be funny if it was, well, funny.
Posted by ladd at 06:25 PM on 04/05/07. Discuss (15)
[AP] Neshoba Newspaper Editor to Get Journalism Award
The Associated Press is reporting on the Editor & Publisher Web site that our good friend, and mentor, Stanley Dearman is being honored for his editorials calling for the prosecution of the men who killed James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in 1964:
he Silver Em award will be presented to Dearman at an April 19 banquet in Oxford.
In 2000, Dearman pushed authorities to pursue charges for the first time against the killers of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. “It’s time for an accounting,” Dearman wrote. “We hope that the attorney general and the district attorney conclude that the case can be effectively prosecuted. It’s time.
Posted by ladd at 07:30 PM on 04/03/07. Discuss (1)
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