White Supremacy Lives in Mississippi.
Parts of the U.S. corporate propaganda system (aka "the media") such as CBS radio network, are hailing the election of redneck racist Cindy Hyde-Smith to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi as "historic," NOT because she's a throwback to the 19th century Confederate States south, but because she's the "first woman elected to Congress from Mississippi," ever. In which case, they should be remarking on how extremely sexist Mississippi must be! This is the year 2018.
Naturally, the president who represents white supremacists, Donald Trump, campaigned for her.
Hyde-Smith is a reactionary racist in the mold of unreconstructed Confederate Jefferson Beauregard Session III. (Sessions recently made a teary exit as Attorney General of the U.S. on orders of the man who originally anointed him AG, president Donald J. "Jackass" Trump.)
Hyde-Smith went to high school at a so-called "private academy," one of the whites-only private schools set up by the incorrigible white racists of the South determined to maintain a system of quasi-apartheid. These schools were set up to avoid the racial integration being imposed at long last on Southern public school districts by the Federal courts. The descendants of slaves (who are also descended from slave owners who impregnated their slave "property") were for a century forced to endure a grossly inferior education system, deemed legitimate through the legal concept of "separate but equal" under prior Supreme Court doctrine. This mythology was finally abandoned by the Supreme Court under political pressure from the civil rights movement.
Hyde-Smith has posed proudly for photos in Confederate soldier regalia, including rifle. Her latest "gaffe" was informing an admirer that she'd happily attend a "public hanging" (i.e. a lynching of a black victim) "in the front row" with him. U.S. media, such as the awful CBS radio propaganda network, are passing this off as a "joke." Only she wasn't joking, so CBS was guilty of broadcasting disinformation in defense of a racist.
One wonders if CBS would pass off a remark such as "too bad Hitler didn't finish off the Jews" as a "joke." I doubt it. As always, "blacks" are at the bottom of the social pecking order in the U.S. And above all, the corporate propaganda system wants reactionary politicians to occupy the power slots, NOT anyone even slightly to the left, such as Hyde-Smith's Democratic opponent, Hyde-Smith is a Republican. In the South, the white racists- which is most whites in the South- migrated en massa from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party after the Texan Democrat and president Lyndon Johnson sheparded the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act through Congress, to ease somewhat the severe repression African-Americans live under in the Confederate states.
It is also a fact that the U.S. media virtually always covers for reactionaries and racists, bending over backwards to legitimize them.
Being a white racist, of course Hyde-Smith is also an awful reactionary on all political issues. [1] Thus do the white racists of the "solid South" continue their tradition of packing the U.S. Congress with reactionaries who are enemies of human progress. (Just one example of thousands: for decades they prevented the passage of a Federal anti-lynching law, thus protecting their Southern "tradition" of torturing blacks and hanging them from trees or burning them alive, and passing around the body parts of the victims as souvenirs to the white mobs.)
Parts of the U.S. corporate propaganda system (aka "the media") such as CBS radio network, are hailing the election of redneck racist Cindy Hyde-Smith to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi as "historic," NOT because she's a throwback to the 19th century Confederate States south, but because she's the "first woman elected to Congress from Mississippi," ever. In which case, they should be remarking on how extremely sexist Mississippi must be! This is the year 2018.
Naturally, the president who represents white supremacists, Donald Trump, campaigned for her.
Hyde-Smith is a reactionary racist in the mold of unreconstructed Confederate Jefferson Beauregard Session III. (Sessions recently made a teary exit as Attorney General of the U.S. on orders of the man who originally anointed him AG, president Donald J. "Jackass" Trump.)
Hyde-Smith went to high school at a so-called "private academy," one of the whites-only private schools set up by the incorrigible white racists of the South determined to maintain a system of quasi-apartheid. These schools were set up to avoid the racial integration being imposed at long last on Southern public school districts by the Federal courts. The descendants of slaves (who are also descended from slave owners who impregnated their slave "property") were for a century forced to endure a grossly inferior education system, deemed legitimate through the legal concept of "separate but equal" under prior Supreme Court doctrine. This mythology was finally abandoned by the Supreme Court under political pressure from the civil rights movement.
Hyde-Smith has posed proudly for photos in Confederate soldier regalia, including rifle. Her latest "gaffe" was informing an admirer that she'd happily attend a "public hanging" (i.e. a lynching of a black victim) "in the front row" with him. U.S. media, such as the awful CBS radio propaganda network, are passing this off as a "joke." Only she wasn't joking, so CBS was guilty of broadcasting disinformation in defense of a racist.
One wonders if CBS would pass off a remark such as "too bad Hitler didn't finish off the Jews" as a "joke." I doubt it. As always, "blacks" are at the bottom of the social pecking order in the U.S. And above all, the corporate propaganda system wants reactionary politicians to occupy the power slots, NOT anyone even slightly to the left, such as Hyde-Smith's Democratic opponent, Hyde-Smith is a Republican. In the South, the white racists- which is most whites in the South- migrated en massa from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party after the Texan Democrat and president Lyndon Johnson sheparded the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act through Congress, to ease somewhat the severe repression African-Americans live under in the Confederate states.
It is also a fact that the U.S. media virtually always covers for reactionaries and racists, bending over backwards to legitimize them.
Being a white racist, of course Hyde-Smith is also an awful reactionary on all political issues. [1] Thus do the white racists of the "solid South" continue their tradition of packing the U.S. Congress with reactionaries who are enemies of human progress. (Just one example of thousands: for decades they prevented the passage of a Federal anti-lynching law, thus protecting their Southern "tradition" of torturing blacks and hanging them from trees or burning them alive, and passing around the body parts of the victims as souvenirs to the white mobs.)
Hyde-Smith in her native garb, as a warrior for slavery.
Hyde-Smith with Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant who appointed her to fill a U.S. Senate seat vacated by her reactionary racist predecessor Thad Cochran. Now she's been elected to a full term. Note the Mississippi state flag, which incorporates the stars and bars banner of the traitor slave nation, the Confederate States of America.
1] For example, see "Rev. Barber: MS Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Jokes About Hangings, But Her Policies Will Strangle the Poor," Democracy Now!, November 26, 2018.
