If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. ~ Toni Morrison, Grambling State University Bachelor of Arts Broadcast Journalism
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Nov 12 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Poor and lower middle class white people in Mississippi have been through this before, but they don’t know it. They believe the Lost Cause narrative and that the South will rise again. They believe Black people cut them out of their inheritance. They see themselves as they see Trump. One does whatever he wants to knock down the Blacks because they are still supposed to be grateful for not being a slave. They don’t read or know American history. They are under educated and over indoctrinated. They receive the highest amount of all things bad in crime and education while listening to Fox News telling them that their shortcomings are because of the others. They do not know the three branches of government, how the Supreme Court operates or nothing of the federal courts. They HAVE NOT read the Constitution and they can’t read cursive. They do not know how to conjugate verbs or comprehend simple sentence structure. They DO NOT read the Bible. They don’t know everyone in the Bible was African and Sudan dark skinned. They really believe Jesus was blonde and blue eyed.
The level of entitlement among them is laughable if it were not dangerous because what they love to do is fight. The people that voted for Trump are the identity politics people who are skilled in deflection. They’re like toddlers who throw tantrums when they don’t get their way. They have mommy AND daddy issues they refuse to accept.
If Black people stormed the Capitol, broke doors and windows. Injured officers of the law, called them racist pigs, shit on Nancy Pelosi’s desk and left a note, then spread shit on the walls, broadcast live on social media, and then WENT HOME.
May 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Mississippians, please don't dismiss Brandon Presley because he is not frat-boy savvy.
Presley has a proven service record and has more integrity than the entire MSGOP.
I see US expecting him to be perfect and polished. Let's not 2016 ourselves by eating one another
and letting the snake back in our house.
Reeves is inept, divisive and caters to his rich constituents.
Mississippi is dying on his watch. He's a ruler not a governor of the people. He's a chaos agent and no work is getting done. Meanwhile, he distracts, deflects and denies!
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Editorial:
It didn’t matter that she spent the last years of her life mostly in hiding, or that she had terminal cancer. The only thing that would end the pursuit of her was her death. yazooherald.net/editorials-opi…
Editorial:
Still, that did not end the hounding to which Donham was subjected for the last decades of her life.
May 1, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Lawmakers were wrong to call critical race theory “Marxist,” she learned, because the framework was actually a rejection of legal theories that had centered class and sidelined race. mississippitoday.org/2022/02/02/mis…
They also learned about “interest convergence,” a core tenet of critical race theory that argues communities of color only achieve progress when white communities also benefit.
Mar 15, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
President Jimmy Carter is an icon, activist, warrior, humanitarian and a true example of the qualities of historical Jesus.
I praise God for President Carter and pray for him and his family.
I was 10 years old in 1978 when he was President.
I remembered gas prices were high and people were blaming him.
We didn't own a car.
I overheard adults talking, saying things like: they treat him like they treat Black people.
It stayed with me that our church had a picture of him with Coretta Scott King
Mar 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
After viewing the video as well as the autopsy report and the photos, renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden concluded the death was a homicide. “They killed him by piling on top of him,” he said. “He absolutely died from some kind of asphyxia.” mississippitoday.org/2023/03/13/rob…
Since 2000, at least 342 deaths have taken place across the country after police restrained people, according to FatalEncounters.org. Many of those deaths were due to asphyxia.
Feb 23, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Update:
My family had Ian's intake this morning. The Juvenile Court prosecutor is not pursuing a case against him.@PoliceSouthaven lied on my minor child.
Ian did not make the call and NEVER posed a threat to Southaven schools.@darrenmuss
got on this app and defamed my son.
Let me tell about my 17-year-old son. Ian was diagnosed with PDD, Pervasive Developmental Delay when he was 18 months old. A team of 12 doctors tested him for an entire day at @uthsc. I waited six months for the appointment and we came out of pocket with 2k.
Feb 11, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Can't sleep. Watching my child sleep with gratitude. He was swatted by someone and Southaven police arrested, handcuffed and put him in juvenile detention for three days. I am LIVID. We've hired lawyers. The police had NO EVIDENCE. The judge that verbally ok'd the arrest warrant
Judge Craig Treadway, DeSoto County was appointed by former Mississippi governor, Phil Bryant.
Detective Patricia Taylor told me my son called a suicide hotline, threatening to cause violence at his school and they take school threats seriously. For 2 hours in front of my home
Feb 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
“The investigation concluded that Officers Moore and Santos should have completed a crime report for domestic violence and should have seized the deadly weapon as contraband per department policy,” the release issued Friday stated. daytondailynews.com/crime/dayton-o…
Nelson told police that Hawes had a gun and said he had threatened her multiple times. She said she just wanted to file a report but asked officers if they could make him leave for the night.
Jan 30, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"It felt like you were on fire," recalls Edwards, now 93 years old. "Guys started screaming and hollering and trying to break out. And then some of the guys fainted. And finally they opened the door and let us out, and the guys were in bad shape." npr.org/2015/06/22/415…
NPR tracked down some of the men used in the race-based experiments. And it wasn't just African-Americans. Japanese-Americans were used as test subjects, serving as proxies for the enemy so scientists could explore how mustard gas and other chemicals might affect Japanese troops.