General Discussion

I'm 81, born 1944 in deep SW Mississippi . . little crossroads cotton picking town; county was 75% Black, as best I can tell from this vantage point, about 15 - 20 Blacks were registered to vote. I left at age 18 and never looked back. However, in those 18 years, three Black men were murdered, all of them for trying to register to vote or to form an NAACP chapter. Murders never solved -- what a surprise.

I have a dozen Mississippi and Louisiana cousins as well as my wife's Alabama cousins, in-laws, nephew.

Of these MS, AL, and LA kin, three families are Democrats. They take a lot of shit from their communities. The rest of our MS, LS, AL kin are MAGAts and white supremacists.

Their children and grandchildren all attend lily-white segregation academies -- Indianola Academy, Wilkinson County Christian Academy, Centreville Christian Academy, Bayou Academy (Cleveland MS). Read about them here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation_academy

They do not use the word "Black" or the term "African-American." They use as a normal part of their vocabulary the word "n####r" and "n####rs." They use these words as easily as the rest of us say "Hello" or "Goodbye."

They tell me Donald Trump was sent by God. They all -- except for a couple of families who are Methodists -- are Southern Baptists who are in church every time the doors are open and who tell me the Bible is literal -- flood, prophecy, resurrection -- it all happened.

I posted on my Facebook account a condemnation of the Supreme Court after last weeks decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. All Hell rained down on my Facebook, email, text messages, and phone calls from my beloved cousins who are delighted with the decision.

Not a fucking thing has changed in the Old South from the days of Southern Redemption following the end of Reconstruction in 1876. The six "justices" who overturned the VRA should swap their judicial robes for Klan robes and hoods.

Later, I'll post a comment telling everyone how I really feel.