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Rebecca J. Kavanagh @DrRJKavanagh
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Mississippi: 1 in 5 Black people has lost the right to vote; a White man wore 👇at a polling place; & yesterday Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith said about a cattle rancher, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."

She's facing Mike Epsy in an election Nov 27. VOTE.
He's a registered nurse and former cop. commercialappeal.com/story/news/201…
Who was thankfully fired after this came out. But it is enraging to think of how many arrests he made and how many Black people suffered as a result of his idea of "Mississippi Justice." wmcactionnews5.com/2018/11/08/hos…
Also how many cops subscribe to this ideology but are not stupid enough to wear t-shirts proclaiming it.
The most serious of these things is actually that 1 in 5 Black people in Mississippi is permanently disenfranchised. That is more than any state in the nation. sentencingproject.org/publications/f…
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People so spectacularly missing Tiffany Haddish’s point.

And everything she says is accurate. A recent study showed that people would save a dog from an accident before they would certain “classes” of human beings, including those they deemed “criminal.”

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Please understand I am in no way equating Blackness with criminality.

We live in a society where Willie Horton tropes thrive & Black & Brown people make up the overwhelming number of people in prison so that was why I made the correlation.
And unfortunately the study did not consider race as a variable.
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Kathy Morse did time on Rikers Island. She was released 8 years ago, but in this searing piece she talks about why even now she doesn’t feel free.

Kathy is such a powerful voice #onhere for incarcerated women. Please follow & more importantly listen & hear what she has to say.
There are some amazing must-follow people #onhere who were at some point during their lives incarcerated, including @keribla @realhomie4life @shonhopwood @PDog119 @swopbehindbars @CloseRosies.

I know I am omitting many because doing this off the top of my head.

Please add.
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When judges set bail on my clients’ cases as low as $500, 87% of them cannot afford to pay it. That’s for offenses like trespassing & petit larceny.

It costs NYC, $475 a night to detain someone on Rikers’ Island.

You do the math.

psmag.com/economics/our-… via @pacificstand
When I started as a public defender, I thought judges set bail at $500 honestly - if mistakenly - believing that it was a token amount most people could pay.

Then I smartened up. Judges know exactly what we do: that $500 bail will hold poor people in jail & coerce pleas.
Until NYC and other cities do something about cash bail, please donate to bail funds across the country like @BKBailFund. $500 will buy a person’a freedom. A donation of $5 from 100 people gets us to $500.
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There are so many reasons Cindy Hyde-Smith is wrong for Mississippi.

One of the reasons that just came to light is her long history of racism, starting with attending a segregationist high school to sending her daughter to a similar one as well. #SaturdayMorning
Hyde-Smith attended a segregationist academy specifically designed to avoid Brown v. Board of Ed racial integration.

Not only that, but she also sent her daughter to a similar academy.

This story is stunning.

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💥Control of the U.S. Senate May Hinge on Possible Mississippi Runoff:
“Mississippi could be the deciding factor in who controls the Senate,” Melissa Scallan, a spokeswoman for Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a temporary replacement for Cochran after he retired on April 1.
🌊🗳️Mississippi has not sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1982.

📈NBC News/Marist poll has Hyde-Smith up by 9 points.

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