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Sep 6 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
State leaders wigged out when I did this NBC column in 2021 about State treatment of Jackson (“but we took state flag down,” one legislator whined to me.)

But we have @JxnFreePress archives. From 2011, watch @tatereeves campaign on not helping cap city:

m.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2011/jun/…
Listen to @tatereeves talk to Esteemed Paul Gallo about #msleg not getting to consider infrastructure help for Jackson. H/T @jallen1985:

Please understand that *campaigning* against “scary, incompetent, Black, so on” Jackson is top political strategy here. What I call “scary mailers” to white voters is big part of that. Here’s a @JxnFreePress piece from 2003:

m.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2003/nov/…

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Sep 5
1. LAST THREE DAYS.
For those new to Old Mississippi game, ugly racist and/or misogynistic hate comes out when (a) my publications reporting of real systemic history/context regardless of party hits old guard’s collective nerve + (b) when national media elevate our work.
2. For the 20 years since I co-founded @JxnFreePress this month, that has been very personal against because, you know, white women aren’t supposed to critique the powerful in Mississippi. It’s just not done. I have a file drawer full of responses, basically three types. …
3. First, there are the direct c*nt, sl*t, you-have-a-big-ass, why-are-you-single (I’m not) variety because, you know, women will run for the hills if you make it all about her body or supposed unattractiveness to men, or what not.

Friday night’s attack was this brand.
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Sep 3
1. ICYM it last night. This man in Rankin County, whom I don’t know, repeatedly called me a “c*nt” in Facebook messages with other choice remarks because he didn’t like my “smug” remarks about racism on @CBSNews.

2. Know that so many women in Mississippi are afraid to share opinions publicly due to smears and attacks like this. They tell me all the time privately while cheering me on—for 20 years now. I’ve been called everything and every false rumor spread by these types (left $ right).
3. It is one reason I left Mississippi right after college. But I came back strong enough to stand up to it it ignore it, but this toxic misogyny is a major cause of #msbraindrain. One reason I’m vocal is to take a stand against silencing and smears of women here.
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Jan 23
1. I'm digging into racist muck of Mississippi Sovereignty Commission files for their take on violence in Jackson/Hinds County for #MSRaceViolence piece. A 1967 Mississippi Crime Commission report, and it's full of gems. This one is full US "history" many would like taught, eh?
2. Judge Tom P. Brady, the vicious Citizens Council leader who compared Black people to apes and helped stoke white terrorism against Black people and traveled the whole nation to speak about supposed white superiority, was one of the key members of the 1967 Miss Crime Commission
3. And erudite Gov. Paul Johnson who created the commission? During his campaign he said NAACP should for n_____s, apes, alligators, coons and possum. He also helped white parents get state tax $ to send kids to new whites-only segregation academies that openly taught racism.
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Jan 22
1. I sure wish the internet existed back when Stephen D. Lee, first president of my alma mater @msstate, led textbook censorship and targeted educators to ensure historic lies. Here, @11_mcgee and I explained what #SDLee did to and from Mississippi. mississippifreepress.org/4650/mississip…
2. Keep reading about #SDLee’s censorship sins … more at mississippifreepress.org/4650/mississip…
3. If you didn’t know this, Stephen D. Lee was a real son of a bitch and racist and is a favorite now of racist organizations. My university @msstate still glorifies the hell out of him. More from our piece about #SDLee’s censorship leadership:
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Jan 22
So a state senator 17 years my junior told me to "go to bed" rather than answering my question about the source of his CRT graphic, and that tells you so much of what you need to know about #msleg right there in one tweet.
Best part, folks? It was 7:30pm. I still had an evening of Todd’s yummy dinner, catching up with Boba Fett and reading ahead of me. It was such a … provincial … attempt to silence me. I don’t go to Red Lobster at 5 p.m., then drown myself with cheap bourbon and pass out by 7.
BTW, I appreciate all the outrage over this, but it is nothing new. For 20 years now as a woman editor in Mississippi, I’ve been the target of insults, lies and continual misogyny, from all along political spectrum. I have a receipt cabinet like you wouldn’t believe.
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Jan 21
1. Again: CRT does not do this. Opposite, in fact. Interesting that #msleg never once got around to doing this to ensure white-superiority garbage wasn't taught. I am white, not inferior or superior to a damn person and have brains to understand perils of systemic "whiteness."
2. Meantime, Mississippi segregation academies and council schools long taught white superiority including that Black kids were born inferior, IQ garbage, etc.

I'm very curious what schools all the people who just voted for this mess attended and how integrated. #msleg
3. Here's a column I did at my last publication for a taste, but it didn't stop there, I assure you. #msleg

jacksonfreepress.com/news/2017/nov/…
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