Some Beliefs Die Hard

Is there any doubt that racism is still alive and well in the state of Mississippi?

From an article written by Ward Schaefer in the Jackson Free Press:

State Sen. Lydia Chassaniol’s decision to speak at the annual conference of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens last week drew disapproval from her constituents, as well as a defense from her state party chairman. As reported first by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, Chassaniol, R-Winona, spoke to the racist, anti-Semitic group about “Cultural Heritage in Mississippi.”

“I wouldn’t associate myself with any hate group,” Lewis said. “For someone to do that sends a message to me that they somewhat or totally agree with their agenda.”

For Chassaniol, that would mean agreeing with the CofCC’s opposition to interracial marriage and “race-mixing” and the claim that black people are “genetically inferior.” Columnists in the CofCC’s newsletter have hyperventilated that non-white immigration to the U.S. was transforming the country into a “slimy brown mass of glop.”

The senator added in the e-mail that she has spoken at the all-black Greenwood Voter’s League, which some could consider racist for lacking white members: “I do not abide by labels such as this, and I hope you will forgive me for taking exception to the insinuation that I am racist, because I choose to belong to a conservative organization. Conservative is a term which also applies to fiscal matters.”

Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Brad White admitted that he would not have attended. “I wouldn’t have went,” White said. “Seeing the turmoil that it’s caused and some of the bad light that it’s put on her—I think unjustly and unfortunately—I wish that circumstances would have been different.”

Her attitude is a good indication of why Mississippians voted overwhelmingly for McCain in the last election.  Race will be denied as the reason but voters in the state would have voted for Attila the Hun over Obama.

I am not saying that all voters in Mississippi are racists but the older more likely to vote regularly…are.

Pat On The Back For Home Schooling

The Mississippi legislature has a resolution before it to recognize the state’s “unwavering” support for home schooling with House Concurrent Resolution 77  which states:

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MISSISSIPPI’S UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION IN THE DESIGNATION OF THE WEEK OF MAY 11-15, 2009, AS MISSISSIPPI HOME EDUCATION WEEK IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

Let us be honest home schooling for the most part is attempted because the parents do not want their children mixing with minorities or other religious teachings.  It is a form of racism.

The resolution spotlights the home schooling of Geo. Washington and Patrick Henry…thinking…it was in a frontier area and the early 18th century, there was about 4 schools in the Colonies and home schooling was about the only way to be educated.  But the most ludicrous example was Booker T. Washington….the man was born in slavery and they were not ALLOWED to be educated….so home schooling was the only option his family had.

There is a good reason that home schooling in Mississippi should be recognized and that is that the educational programs in Mississippi suck wind.  instead of making the hime schooling sound more noble than it is, maybe they should use it as a way to justify improving education in the state.

A Football Star’s Death–GSFP Comment

Recently a George County football star, a raising college pick was stopped by local authorities and while his license was being checked commit suicide with a shotgun.  This story has been all over the news in Mississippi.  Well just last week the Grand jury came in and said there was nothing unusual about his death.

To begin with the the high student was African-American, was dating a white girl in a county known for its racist past.  I have known a couple of law enforcement in the county that were Klan members, not saying all are or that any are now, just in the past some were members.  The deputy that stopped the student did not have a vid cam in his car, that was lucky or unlucky depending on what you would like to believe.

The mayor of Lucedale after the grand jurt findings and after the family spoke out against the findings said that the past was just that and that Lucedale was a very progressive and friendly city.  That caught me off guard…..friendly…for sure..if you are white…but progressive?  Lucedale is many thinbgs put progressive it is not!

But I thought about what the mayor had said and it had been 8 or 10 years since I was in the city…so I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.  But that was short lived.

Yesterday I was returning from a friends house in Harrison county, now if any county could be called progressive, Harrison would be the closest.  Anyway I digress……in the city of Gulfport I was stopped in traffic for a funeral……behind the lead cop car and in front of the hearse was a pick up, blue in color with 5 or 6 rednecks in the back waving a very large confederate flag….dressed in jeans cowboy hats and really ugly colored western shirts.  My first thought was ” Geez did Larry the Cable Guy die?”  Talk about trailer trash or white trash…take your pick both would be correct.

I thought of the mayor of Lucedale and his comment and all those that talk about the “New South”, Bubbas…there is NOTHING new in the South…it is the same hateful place it always was…it is just more subdued than in the past.

Back to the high school student…I do not for a minute think he commited suicide…he had the  world by the nuts…why ruin a sure thing?

Grand Jury Begins On Death Of Football Star

As reported in the Sou. Mississippi Sun-Herald:

A George County grand jury has just finished hearing from more than 30 witnesses in connection with the Dec. 8 shooting death of George County High School football star Billey Joe Johnson Jr.

Jackson County District Attorney Tony Lawrence said the grand jury said they felt they had enough evidence to start their deliberations, though their findings were not expected to be completed and made public until as early as Thursday.

Johnson, 17, died Dec. 8 after a George County sheriff’s deputy pulled him over on Mississippi 26 for running a red light and a stop sign.

The deputy said he was at his patrol car when he heard the shotgun blast and Johnson fell to the ground outside his truck, with the gun on top of him.

Minutes before the stop, Johnson had been identified as a suspect in a burglary in progress at his former girlfriend’s home.

George County Sheriff Garry Welford initially said that it appeared that Johnson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Johnson’s family said he did not kill himself.

KKK Update

Eight people were arrested Tuesday, one on a charge of murder, in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman at a remote Louisiana campsite during what police say was an initiation ceremony for the Ku Klux Klan.

The woman, whose identity has not been confirmed, was recruited over the Internet to join the Klan by the suspects, said Capt. George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office.

The woman traveled from Oklahoma to Louisiana for the ceremony and was taken to a campsite near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans.

On Sunday, the woman asked to be taken from the camp to a nearby town. An argument ensued, and the woman was fatally shot by the group’s leader, Bonnett said.

Some of the suspects then tried to conceal the killing by burning the woman’s personal items, he said.

Police received a tip about the killing and found the woman’s body hidden under loose brush alongside a road, Bonnett said. The suspects, most of whom were still in the woods near the campsite several miles from where the body was found, were taken into custody without incident, he said.

Bogalusa, a logging town dominated by a huge paper mill about 60 miles north of New Orleans, is the largest city in Washington Parish, which, like the whole state, was won by John McCain, not Obama last week.

Sunday’s killing was in St. Tammany Parish, just across the Washington Parish line and all the suspects are from Washington Parish. Cynthia C. Lynch, 43, of Tulsa, Okla., was shot in an area of vast piney woods, farms and bedroom communities separated from New Orleans by Lake Pontchartrain.

More than 40 years earlier, Washington Parish was beset by anti-desegregation violence. In 1965, Oneal Moore, the parish’s first black sheriff’s deputy, was slain in an ambush, a crime that has not been solved.

In the 1990s, former Klan leader David Duke was in such a tight gubernatorial race against incumbent Edwin Edwards that opponents, fearful business would shun the state if Duke was in the governor’s mansion, crafted a bumper sticker stating “Vote for the Crook, It’s Important.” Edwards, whose scandalous reputation inspired the slogan, won re-election, though he was later jailed in a gambling payoff scandal.

Somethings never change-

Somethings NEVER Change

An Oklahoma woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she asked to be taken back to town, the sheriff of a parish near New Orleans said. Eight people were arrested after the authorities found the woman’s body hidden under some brush on the side of a road several miles from the remote campsite, about 60 miles north of New Orleans. Investigators found weapons, several flags and six Klan robes at the campsite, Sheriff Jack Strain of St. Tammany Parish said. Sheriff Strain said the group’s leader, Raymond Foster, 44, shot and killed the woman after a fight broke out when she tried to leave. Mr. Foster was charged with second-degree murder.

LA: Eugenics By Any Other Name

State Rep. John LaBruzzo says the government should consider cash incentives for poor people to undergo reproductive sterilization, because society is careening toward a day when persons on public assistance outnumber taxpayers and the economy collapses. A look at Louisiana welfare numbers suggests his fear is unfounded.

LaBruzzo said he continues compiling such data and that his idea of providing Fallopian tubal ligations and a $1,000 bonus to impoverished women was a brainstorming tactic prematurely made public Monday on a radio talk show, followed by Internet and printed reports.

LaBruzzo acknowledged he has touched off a firestorm with the initial idea of fighting poverty by offering money to low-income women to get their tubes tied. He also suggested paying poor men to get vasectomies and creating tax incentives for college-educated, affluent couples to have more children.

“How can we get more people who rely on government to have fewer children who rely on government?” he asked Tuesday. “If there’s fewer of them, we can do more for them.”

Many observers called his ideas offensive.

“It violates the premise of bodily integrity and personal reproductive freedom,” said Rachel E. Luft, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Orleans. “It’s based on an economic fallacy that it’s low-income people who are slurping up the resources of this country.”

Luft likened LaBruzzo’s plan to the eugenics movement that sought to engineer low-income and ethnic groups out of the population a century ago, based on the belief that some people are less valuable than others. Adolf Hitler later adopted some of the movement’s principles in Nazi Germany, Luft said.

Some critics called LaBruzzo’s idea a mean-spirited, misguided effort to eliminate poor people, instead of helping them with education, health care and economic development. Julie Mickelberry, public affairs director for Planned Parenthood of Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta, said LaBruzzo’s plan ignores genuine solutions.

LA: Jefferson Parish Nooses

Two Jefferson Parish supervisors testified Thursday that they didn’t take offense to two nooses, a bullwhip, whipping post sign and other objects, so they never thought to report them as inappropriate workplace decorations.

General Superintendent Glenn Miller and foreman Michael Chauvin made the statements during a hearing to appeal their suspensions imposed after Sewer Department laborer Terrence Lee made photos of the items public and accused his bosses of harassment and racial intimidation.

Assistant Director Michael J. Stamps and Superintendents Randolf G. Doucet and Billie Hartline also are appealing their four- and six-week suspensions for not reporting the objects that hung in the Rheem Building on Jefferson Highway for years. All of the supervisors are white.

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Lee, who is black, is awaiting his own hearing to appeal his discipline for insubordination.

The items include two ropes knotted in the shape of nooses, a wooden contraption that kicks the person who pulls one of the attached ropes, a dartboard with a photo of a man at the bull’s-eye, a leather whip and a “BILL’S WHIPPING POST” sign.

AL: Democrats Need The Deep South

In order to capture contested elections across the Southeast, particularly Deep South states like Alabama and Mississippi, the Democratic party needs to lure voters who have not historically gone to the polls, party leaders said at a Southern caucus meeting Friday in Mobile.

Pointing to reports that show Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama’s appeal among younger and minority voters, the officials said party turnout should be strong in the general election this November.

Gerald Johnson, with Capital Research Center, showed a poll in which 48 percent of Alabamians said they were satisfied with the condition of the state, though 74 percent of them were dissatisfied with the status of the country. He linked that to a Democratic majority in state politics.

You can bet that most “boomers”, white ones at least will be voting for McCain.  I had a post on my other blog about why white men were not voting for Obama and I said that they expected him to, at his inauguration to come out from behind the podium and grab his crotch and throw his arm in the air and say, “Big O in da house”.  I also read that they are paranoid that if Obama is elected he will somehow enslave the white race.  That is just as moronic as it comes.  I live in the deep south and talking to people about the election, I have found NO one of the white race that can give me a reason that they will not vote for Obama.  Most of the reason are from the lying emails that are sent out and proven to be false, but NO one takes the time to check the truthfulness of them.  It is easier to hate the man for any reason other than the real one.

LA: Racism In South Louisiana

More than four weeks after someone burned the letters KKK and the shapes of three crosses in the front yard of an African-American family’s Metairie home, the grass still refuses to grow. And the family has not rushed to remove the symbols.

“We left it out there because we want people in the neighborhood to know that there are people in their own backyards that believe in this garbage,” said the family’s patriarch, who asked not to be named when a reporter stopped by Monday. He said he doesn’t want any publicity for himself, just public awareness that “racism is still alive and it is well.”

The property, in a predominantly white section of northeast Metairie, is home to a 35-year-old chef and a 34-year-old cosmetologist and their three children. They had lived in the house only five days when the symbols were discovered.

Perhaps the hardest part for the couple was explaining to their 9-year-old son why there were so many police cars in the yard last month, the meaning of burned crosses and the Ku Klux Klan, and why someone might not like the boy because of his skin color. It was a painful conversation the father said he never imagined having to have in this day and age.

But the family is determined to stay put, said the father, recalling that they have moved three times since Hurricane Katrina. “After my wife made me pack up all that stuff and move, I’m not going anywhere,” he said with a laugh.

He called the vandalism a cowardly act born of ignorance, and a similar reaction on his part would amount to stooping to the culprit’s level. As a father, he said, he must be a better model for his son.

This is disgusting…..someone please tell these people that it is the 21st century and there is NO room for such stupidity.