1. Jim Prince of the Neshoba Democrat in my hometown repped media at the big state dominionist prayer service this week (one of 7 centers of power); see below. @AshtonPittman and I've written about him a few times already.
2. In 2015, Jim Prince came for me because I called out a sexist comment by House speaker. He brought all the overwrought, dumb insults (basically: I'm a communist. I'm decidedly not). He was then immediate past president of @MPAnewspapers. I fired back: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/nov/…
3. In 2020, Jim Prince went after a minor boy who protested our hometown's Confederate statue and then ran an editorial claiming that Marxists were trying to take it down (he's kinda a one-trick pony with the red-baiting): jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/jul/…
4. @ashtonpittman included emails from Jim Prince, who has a master's in journalism from the University of Mississippi, in his #UMEmails series. In 2018, Prince withdrew support from UM because it took Ed Meek's name off the J-school this time due to a "nameless, faceless mob"
5. @MadisonJournal (Prince owns it too) ran editorial gushing over Sen. Tim Scott's declaration of "no systemic racism in America." There's racism, sure, but decidedly not baked into U.S. systems (you know, like media). onlinemadison.com/stories/editor…
6. In that @MadisonJournal editorial (and the state prayer event this week), Prince and others are engaging what I call the-Krazy-Klucker-in-the-corner strategy. Never admit systems of racism, the role of all, yes, "centers of power" in our state/nation that pass it forward.
7. Instead, we hear from people now who support(ed) and still benefit from the systems of white supremacy that it was all done by a few crazy rednecks or such, thank God all that is over, and we're sorry all them Krazy Kluckers in the Korner did that to y'all. Time to move on.
8. Of course, "moving on" without rooting out the history, truth and causes/effects of that all-hands-on-deck racism/resistance bakes in the inequities and allows same people to keep benefitting from systemic racism. And leave same mostly white men in control, reaping benefits.
9. All of this is dressed up w Christian verbiage and tucked between prayers and declarations about how awful racism used to be. Just don't try to change racism of today, or God forbid the systems that keep pumping it out, or you're painted as a Marxist for noticing the obvious.
10. That my friends, in a tiny nutshell, captures the heart of dominionism. It's about consolidating power in the hands of a few, while praying a lot. And, of course, it's an insult both to anti-theocratic democracy and people who use faith to love and support across divides.
Whoops: Here's the link to Part 2 of the #UMEmails series where Ashton cited Jim Prince emails: mississippifreepress.org/4950/the-ole-m…
11. Decent piece about dominion theology hold on a disturbing number of politicians. And here's a yikes from none other than Ted Cruz. It's cool for a certain religion to control the state, just not vice versa. Um, that's not democracy. texasobserver.org/dominion-theol…
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