The plaintive strains echoed through the Republican-controlled Mississippi House of Representatives last week as they passed a modern-day Jim Crow law.
If the GOP majority Senate passes the bill, HB1020, their going to create a separate court system within the Capitol Complex Improvement District.
A separate court system?
What the hell? The district is 83% Black, according to US Census data. Two white men are set to appoint the faux court system with unelected judges from outside the district if the bill passes.
Needless to say, HB1020 is a racist, unconstitutional power grab by Republicans who want to control the Black population in the district.
The Republicans are saying they're concerned for citizens public safety from crime under the current law.
So unelected judges coming to town to enforce new laws that will drain residents' voting power and take control of their lives is supposed to be an improvement?
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Action Fund posted a tweet last Friday, saying, "HB 1020 is authoritarian and a blatant state effort to dilute the rights of Jackson, Mississippi, residents. It would strip them of voting power to elect judges and district attorneys they feel serve their best interests."
Democratic state Sen. John Horhn told local news outlets that the question is whether the state is going to take over the City of Jackson?
"Well, if it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck - it's a duck," Horhn assured the press.
As it stands, racism is still rampant in Dixie Land.
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