1. I'm inspired by @NicLott, @jarvisdortch, others to share @msfreepress and other clips involving L.Q.C. Lamar. First, learn about the Mississippi Plan (remember LQC Lamar and most white southerners were Democrats then, well before party switch): nps.gov/vick/learn/his… 2. L.Q.C. Lamar (who much of Oxford, Miss. is named for) was a slaver and rapid white supremacist (and opportunist) as we show here: this along means he deserves no statue anywhere: mississippifreepress.org/4351/the-past-…

In research today, I ran across this program for Jackson convention for Mississippi's "Patriotic American Youth," where segregationists and red-baiters worked hard to create the next generation of, well, you know.

But I'm sharing it now because the "Coke breaks" tickled me. The group, by the way, was started by Mrs. Sara McCorkle, the highest ranking woman Citizens Council leader in Mississippi, as far as I can tell. She was in charge of youth propaganda.

1. Just clipped this for y'all for a quick Mississippi segregation academy lesson from early 1970s. There were racist segs (whites-only) and there were Citizens Council school run by Bill Simmons & his goons. Here: Hanging Moss, Manhattan, McCluer, Adams Cty Private were Council 2. Union Acad, Brandon Acad, Amite Acad, Copiah, Indianola Acad, Simpson Acad, Bayou Acad, Greenville Christian (I think), Pillow Acad, Jackson Prep were whites-only academies. Many more.
Council schools more overtly taught that Black people were born inferior; thus couldn't mix

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.

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.

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/

https://twitter.com/MSFreePress/status/1569430868531507201

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/

🧵 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.

https://twitter.com/donnerkay/status/1569397257308442633

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.

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.

https://twitter.com/jallen1985/status/1569513425705005056

*unless, not undress

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

https://twitter.com/mulejail1/status/1569399863028158464

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.

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 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”

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. …

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.

https://twitter.com/DonnerKay/status/1565851077949493249

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).

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

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…

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.

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."

https://twitter.com/ThaoTaTV/status/1484564449205886979

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

Reading House Un-American Activities Committee's Klan hearing transcripts again (here with Grand Klucker Sam Bowers (Laurel) refusing to answer questions), it's really not hard to spot what we could today call "Twitter logic" among grown men red-baiting as an excuse for terrorism BTW, if you're white from Mississippi and ever wondered if your dad, granddad, uncles were in prominent KKK positions in the 1960s in the state, this report names a lot of names. Not all or rank-and-file members, but many leaders. Steel yourself and look.

archive.org/stream/activit…

I'll be honest. A lot of the vibe I and many students from rural southern places have long gotten in higher-education circles outside of Mississippi is condescension. I've spoken publicly before about how I was shocked by belittling responses to things I didn't know in north.

https://twitter.com/SeriFeliciano/status/1468402621245497344

I've long looked at those as lessons about how-not-to-teach. And some of it challenged my mental health and sent me into therapy. Here's the thing: I knew things they didn't, and still do. In j-school, I was stunned at lack of intellecual curiosity about what I knew about South.

What a year and a half it’s been. Thank you for supporting @msfreepress nonprofit journalism in so many ways. It’s been a lot of work, but also so gratifying to watch our new model for journalism explode in our home state. Thanks to all of you in and outside Mississippi.

https://twitter.com/MSFreePress/status/1438591705868128273

BTW, we’re about to take @msfreepress journalism to Level 2 of our model as our first official systemic-reporting bloc kicks off. You’ll see what I mean very soon. Stay close.

1. As editor, I'm going to point out that IHL wanted us to change an earlier accurate story by @ashtonpittman to gloss over this conflict between its motion and what they later said. I said NO WAY without knowing if they actually passed what they were saying they did. They hadn't

https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1438997510572449794

2. After IHL reached out, @AshtonPittman started pressing for minutes and evidence of what the motion they passed said, versus what they and colleges were saying it said.

Now, we learn that they revoted today to change motion to forbid mandates. Too bad, but at least it's clear

It’s good that quality media outlets are starting to dump horserace coverage and bad concept of even calling someone a “political reporter,” but damn, the harm we could’ve avoided had they admitted the obvious sooner.

Will Mississippi media keep up? editorandpublisher.com/stories/holdin… I think the worst threat on this front are the powerful corporate, (white male) donors and board members, and white men running newsrooms in Mississippi. They *like* game of politics among people who look like them with little apparent regard for people, issues, sanity left out.