Defend the Indefensible: Mississippi

https://thinkprogress.org/mississippi-proposes-license-to-harass-for-transphobic-teachers-70fdf6085b2c/?fbclid=IwAR2dQxgA_tPiPmon-HbBK2ad2bsV_REVDOQJHHsMYjuYXB8JXZAHO8FGmBc

Mississippi lawmakers propose ‘license to harass’ for transphobic teachers

Hosemann, Gunn: ‘Racial animus’ of Jim Crow no reason to change law designed to thwart African Americans being elected statewide

https://mississippitoday.org/2019/07/18/hosemann-gunn-say-racial-hostility-in-jim-crow-era-not-reason-to-throw-out-election-provision-today/

The response said, “neither the speaker nor the secretary wish to defend the motivations behind a law allegedly enacted with racial animus” But in reality, the Hosemann/Gunn response, said the lawsuit “is not about race…It’s about partisan politics.”

Get ready to hear similar arguments over and over again as the Supreme Court said it’s cool.

mississippi the state may be terrible but mississippi avenue in portland is quite nice

Obviously we all know this, but Mississippi is home to an enormous black population that doesn't want or care to leave, despite the racist bullshit of a majority of the white folks in the state. Dismissing the whole state is dismissing them, too, unless one provides caveats, so it's best to tread lightly imho

any statements i might make about the terribleness of the south are applicable only to the white people who run things unless i specifically state otherwise

Coincidentally, I woke up with “Living for the City” stuck in my head this morning.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ole-miss-students-pose-with-guns-in-front-of-shot-up-emmett-till-memorial

Who was the person the other day who naively aske on the politics thread "why do young people like Tr*mp?"

I hate people.

U.S. immigration officials raided numerous Mississippi food processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in what marked the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.

The raids, planned months ago, happened just hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to visit El Paso, Texas, the majority-Latino city where a man linked to an online screed about a "Hispanic invasion" was charged in a shooting that left 22 people dead in the border city.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2019/08/07/immigration-ice-raids-hit-mississippi-food-processing-plants/1945057001/

Scott County Superintendent Tony McGee said on Wednesday he knew of at least six families within the district that had a parent caught up in the raids. The students range from kindergarten to high school. Bus drivers were asked to return the children to the school if there was no one at their home. He said the school district created a plan to care for students and all were released from school by 7 p.m.

On Thursday he said more than 150 students in his district remained absent from school Thursday, many kept at home out of fear after the immigration raids.

McGee told the Associated Press that some longtime teachers told him Wednesday was "by far the worst day they ever spent as an educator."
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2019/08/07/ice-immigration-raids-mississippi-what-we-know-peco-koch-foods-poultry-plants-jackson-sanctuary-city/1949156001/

The next governor.

https://i.imgur.com/o6WjeXD.jpg

https://mississippitoday.org/2020/02/05/former-welfare-agency-head-others-arrested-for-embezzling-millions-intended-for-poor-mississippians/

https://mississippitoday.org/2020/04/08/black-mississippians-at-greater-risk-72-of-deaths-56-of-states-covid-19-cases/

the great thing about all this is how like 70% of white ppl in Mississippi will fully grasp that this is unmistakably embezzlement, but still maintain that it was actually a better use for that money


https://news.yahoo.com/94-million-mississippis-poor-spent-160358379.html

New state flag is kinda erotic.

I was partial to the Stennis flag but hey I’ll take it

Stennis flag was available as a custom license plate this year and we got that, but yeah, anything but the battle flag.

corruption corruption
https://mississippitoday.org/2021/10/04/new-audit-mississippi-welfare-misspending/
New audit shows ‘a tragic amount’ misspent, but can’t find what happened to $40 million in welfare funds

corruption corruption continued: in case you were wondering what Brett Favre's been up to lately -- he's been grifting with the ex-guv

https://mississippitoday.org/2022/04/04/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare-scandal-payout/
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/04/06/brett-favre-used-fame-favors-welfare-dollars/

Man

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/30/us/jackson-water-system-failing-tuesday/index.html