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Sep 13 4 tweets 2 min read
🧵 ICYM me talking back to latest round of attacks. See my previous Horhn tweet and note what said publicly to me when he was running against Lumumba for mayor and I suggested he might serve Jackson better by remaining in #msleg. I’m only editor in Jackson who has seen long game.
Or only one who’s not complicit and part of it. (Looks north.) It’s one reason they’ve tried to discredit me over the years. I don’t fool easily, connect dots.
Make no mistake: they see Jackson water crisis as chance to “take the city back.” It’s on their social media and blogs.
Mayor Lumumba opened door with (in)actions for bipartisan old guard and who they anoint to flood through and reap the spoils and not in a collaborative way. Plus, many of them want to see cap city’s Dem voting base disrupted and far rougher policing.

Bookmark these tweets.
Remember that old white guard could make good-faith efforts to collaborate with city but they won’t. Reeves making nice in public comments about helping Jackson people while anonymous mailers going out is a tell.

Same games are afoot, mark my words. Hard to turn back now.

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Sep 14
All, please don’t be shocked that Mississippi has *always* been run as a state to provide spoils to wealthy white men with media’s complicity, either directly or by focusing on trivia and horse races. It is systemic corruption built and maintained to multiply, feed itself forward
Fixing this racist, misogynistic power system is going to take far more than convicting Klansmen from 60 years ago or exposing politicians recently out of office.

It will take a full interrogation of the systems that allow corruption to continuing propagating—and media’s role.
Public must demand that media interrogate every system including how info flows or doesn’t. Since Barbour, those who control state govt squelch free press daily, from freezing out “unfriendly” journalists to demanding written questions to only giving statements. They demonize.
Read 9 tweets
Sep 14
It’s as good a day as any for all Mississippi journalism outlets to start questioning how much corruption and incompetence exists here in state government including among officials still in office.

Start being proactive rather than reactive. No sacred cows. It’s the job,
Caution, though: Careful journslism process is important in this arena to avoid being set up or used, or paying price when your target isn’t indicted or is acquitted. This is training everyone needs.
Advice: Don’t characterize in reporting or on social media. Show, don’t tell.
If you’re using leaked info from unnamed sources, be careful about veracity and motives. You or preferably editor must explain everything possible about those sources and WHY not disclosing them. Don’t be blinded by juicy docs; question the long game at hand.
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Sep 13
UPDATE 🧵 We learned last week that the postal code for these mailers belongs to Ben Sapp, apparently of Brandon; moved here from Alabama. They are registered to his company, Archon Strategies. I reached him this morning, he seemed surprised, said one thing and hung up on me. 1/
Sapp first said "no comment" on mailers under his postal code. When I pressed, he said quickly:
"At 1-Vision, we print for a variety of different customers, clients that use our print shop."
His social profiles show that he owns Archon and works for 1-Vision. 2/
Per its site, 1-Vision also owns A2Z Printing and Vision Graphics on TV Road in Jackson. The lead there is Allen Taheri, whom I have not called yet to ask who funded the mailer about me and political one about mayor this week (law requires disclosure) 3/
1-vision.com/about-us
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Sep 13
But racists have long said Jackson leaders could’t be allowed to control funds such as PILT revenue (or even our own sales tax), so hell no on PILT. The daddy BS has long hurt the capital city. Control issues on steroids. No local control undress it’s white control.
*unless, not undress
Right, imagine thinking he’s the exemplar of conference to tell Jackson what to do and how to comport itself.
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Sep 13
1. Whoa. I hadn't seen this state-funded Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Q&A stating its members' views. Thanks, @mulejail. Here's quick thread of my annotated highlights. First:
Uh huh. Everybody knew who lynched Mack Charles Parker down in Bilbo-land, you lying sacks o' shit
2. Not sure of the date of this doc, but Bryant and Milam confessed to Emmett Till's torture and murder in Look Magazine in January 1956. #msleg formed this racist/terrorist Sovereignty Commission in March 1956.

So.
3. Just saw you know how much "Negro blood" (not a thing) it took to be considered inferior to white people. It used to be one drop; these dumbasses probably thought 1/8 was downright humane and progressive. 🖕
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Sep 12
I just dipped into a local cesspool looking for an old post for my new editor's note, going up now, and it's hilarious to watch white folks whining about lack of representation they have since...white flight due to integration. Plus, how patience is required to take back cap city ImageImageImage
My guess is most of those posts come from suburbs. Still: Many of 16% white folks in Jackson act like they deserve a reward and control for deciding to “stay”
Or, expensive waterfront property or a mayor who panders to them or, or
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