Saturday, February 25, 2023

Mississippi GOP racism in full flower (2023 edition)

 
HeadlineNew York Times, 2/20/2023
The proposal might be less provocative if not for the inescapable context: More than eight in 10 of Jackson’s 150,000 residents, as well as most of its elected leaders, judges and police officers, are African Americans. The proposed court system, and the police force, would be controlled almost exclusively by white officials in the state government. 
Atop that, the new courts and police patrols would serve neighborhoods that contain the bulk of Jackson’s white population. The city’s Black neighborhoods would largely be skirted.

Related posts:
Mississippi GOP leadership fights crime and inflation by cementing their white power.  (2/14/2023)

Tim Scott: "America is not a racist country".  (5/26/2021)

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