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Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson called a white legislator “worse than a black person” in texts uncovered by journalist @CalebBedillion, one of Tupelo’s finest.

Johnson has opposed back caucus orgs, saying they “take us back” to a “race-based mindset.”
djournal.com/news/local/lee…
Key point in @CalebBedillion’s report:

He asked the sheriff if he believes “the racist idea that black people are difficult to please.”

“I think when you play the race card, yes, it’s difficult to please some people,” Johnson said.
djournal.com/news/local/lee…
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Ashton Pittman
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Tate Reeves is sending out mailers tying GOP runoff opponent Bill Waller to Barack Obama. Two things:
1. Reeves has been accused of using mailers to race-bait before.
2. The bullet points either mislead or falsely characterize Waller’s Medicaid expansion plan. #MSelex
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Reeves slaps the giant “Obamacare” across the mailer next to a photo of Bill Waller, suggesting he supports the former black president’s overall health law. He does not.

Waller supports a conservative Medicaid expansion plan similar to what GOP VP Mike Pence did in Indiana. 👇🏻
Now, the current mailer. It says Waller’s plan would cost MS $200m/yr. But in 2015, the MS IHL estimated expansion would cost $159mn/yr by 2025 if 95% of those eligible enrolled.

But under Waller’s plan, the state pays $0. 👇🏻
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Ashton Pittman
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People, & some in national media, keep citing Trump’s “increasingly divisive rhetoric” to explain their moves toward being more critical of him. But this is rests on a fallacy: That Trump is somehow more divisive now than he was on June 26, 2015. Let’s stroll down memory lane. 1/
6/16/2015: Trump launched his campaign with:

“When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They’re not sending YOU. ... "They’re bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists.“

Think about what “They’re not sending you” meant.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_55…
7/5/15: Donald Trump attacked Jeb Bush for having a Mexican-born wife.

“Jeb Bush has to like illegals because of his wife.”
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Ashton Pittman
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This tactic of attributing precise descriptions of Trump’s follies to women is like if Obama supporters had decided to spend 2012 shouting,
“Mitt Romney is a black man doing black man things & giving out free healthcare & he shouldn’t be within 10 miles of the Oval Office!”
Kamala Harris does say Russia exploits American hate+racism for its own gain. As I reported her saying last year:

“Check it out: The Russians know racism & other forms of hate have always been America's Achilles heel & we need to deal with that weakness.”
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/aug/…
She was right, of course. We’ve known for a while that Russia ran ads in 2016 aimed stoking white racial anxiety/outright racism, and also ran ads trying to stoke anger & rage black Americans as well over injustice.
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WHITE PRIVILEGE - a thread.

1/ The concept of white privilege seems to be a purely western one. As a black woman from Nigeria, who studied in the uk, then moved here, I’ve watched on in fascination as this concept has seemingly become popularised in the last 10 years or so...
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This Day in Labor History: September 25, 1891. Two black cotton workers are murdered by whites angry about their organizing other sharecroppers into the Colored Farmers Alliance. Let's talk about rural black worker organizing in our history.
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Racism is the iceberg of psychological illnesses. Dylann Roof was the peak that you can see. I'm having to take this story in small doses. Thought of Baldwin: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
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