An oppressive police bill in Jackson, Miss. revives the ghosts of Jim Crow.
Mississippi lawmakers are considering an oppressive police bill that revives the ghosts of Jim Crow and has been likened to aparthied.SAN ANTONIO — If you want yet another example of the polarization gripping the country, and the forceful return of regressive politics, look no further than Mississippi.
“Only in Mississippi would we have a bill like this … where we say solving the problem requires removing the vote from Black people,” Rep. Ed Blackmon, a Democrat,Jackson was declared America’s Deadliest Major City in America by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting in 2021,Such a crisis has to be addressed. But it cannot be addressed by limiting the conversation to one segment of the population.
“It’s oppressive because there will be judges who will determine sentences over people’s lives,” Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba said. “It’s oppressive because it redirects their tax dollars to something they don’t endorse nor believe in.” Reforms, however, are always directed at those who fail to follow the lead of their more sterling and accomplished colleagues. Police departments are characterized, rightly or wrongly, by bad actors. It is past time to educate them or weed them out.
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