Thread by @ashtonpittman

With Black people making up about 38% of the population, Mississippi is the blackest state in the nation.

Here is a photo of Mississippi's eight statewide elected officials.

https://twitter.com/tatereeves/status/1450931843042365446

If you want to understand how, in the blackest state in America, all 8 statewide elected leaders could be white, start here:

Systemic Racism Built Mississippi. Gov. Reeves Says It Doesn’t Exist.
mississippifreepress.org/11705/systemic…

A 2020 Mississippi microcosm: Election officials in Madison County quietly rezoned 2,000 Black & Hispanic voters out of a majority white precinct w/hundreds of parking spaces to a majority Black one w/35 spaces for 3500+ voters (3x what it served before).mississippifreepress.org/6492/madison-c…

Election Day 2020: Chaotic scenes unfolded in a majority-Black Madison County voting precinct as hundreds filled up nearby parking lots & waited hours to cast a ballot in a the line wrapped that around a shopping center in a historic white-flight suburb.mississippifreepress.org/6704/confusion…

Election Day 2020 (continued): Meanwhile, voters waited a relatively shorter 30-40 minutes at the now overwhelmingly white precinct that 2,000 Black & Hispanic voters had been moved out of.

It had more than enough parking spaces to spare.
mississippifreepress.org/6704/confusion…

Fact: There are more Mississippians (most of them Black) who are disenfranchised by our state's 1890 Jim Crow felony disenfranchisement law than made the difference in the 2019 governor's race between Tate Reeves (R) and Jim Hood (D).
mississippifreepress.org/11705/systemic…