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Lowndes Superviser Harry Sanders said he wasn't on the record when he said black slaves were well-cared for & "didn't have to go out & earn any money" or "do anything" & that black people are "dependent."

Audio shows two people told him he WAS on record: cdispatch.com/news/article.a…
I love how the Lowndes Board's attorney felt the need to join the reporter, @StellaYu_Mizzou, in warning Harry Sanders he was on the record BEFORE he made the racist comment.

Tells me this kind of remark wasn't necessarily unexpected.
Also, how does, "I didn't know I was on the record" make what he said any better?

"I only say racist things when I think I'm saying them privately" is a pretty bad (and false) defense.
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Gov. Reeves celebrations $71 million from the federal government under Trump.

But when an Obama era program (Medicaid expansion) would've expanded health care to 200-300,000 Mississippians, Reeves called it socialism & said, "I am opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi."
Note: Polls show that 60%+ of Mississippians support Medicare expansion, which state health care experts say would have saved several rural hospitals that have closed since 2013.
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Supporters of the #MSFlag argue that its Confederate imagery honors soldiers—not slavery & white supremacy.

But the week lawmakers adopted the flag in 1894, they refused to fund a home for ailing & homeless Confederate vets, citing other priorities. 👇🏻 1/ mississippifreepress.org/3710/you-white…
Quoting @clarionledger at the time: "The building of a soldier’s home was deferred on account of hard times bc all the money...will be needed for other & more pressing purposes, such as maintaining our excellent public school system & the establishment of a State prison farm." 2/
The prison farm, Parchman, came 6 years later as a black-only prison, where black prisoners worked the fields & picked cotton.

Gov. Vardaman said it was “like an efficient slave plantation” to give black men “proper discipline, work habits, & respect for white authority.” 3/
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Regarding Gone With the Wind, I recently rewatched it while my husband watched it for the first time. The depiction of kind slaveowners and happy slaves is certainly BAD.

But it made me realize, too, that there's a problem with modern depictions of slavery in films. 1/
In modern movies about slavery (30-40 years), slaveowners are almost always depicted in the most viscerally cruel ways (lashings, killing, etc).

It shows me the horrors of slavery.

But it also allows me, a white man, to feel distanced from it. 2/
What was unnerving about watching Gone With the Wind as an adult is that it asks you to identify with "decent" slaveowners. I'm tugged towards wanting to feel good about Scarlett's relationship with Mammy. And it's appealing, because the O'Hara's aren't viscerally cruel. 3/
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