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Reprint October 17-23, 2003 Ill fares the land To hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates And men decay! Oliver Goldsmith’s epic words describe perfectly the dilemma that confronts blacks in Mississippi who love freedom! The white man’s money and other emoluments have stolen whatever sense of honor black leaders possessed in the past: the [...]
Reprint September 23-29, 2004 There is a peculiar ambiance to downtown Jackson that defies explanation; it is that this city, which is over 73% black, has no reflection of its black majority in its wealth control or power. Looking from the outside one might easily believe that they were in Rome or Athens, Greece or [...]
Reprint September 11-17, 2003 Oh east is east and west is west, And never the twain shall meet, Til earth and skies stand Presently At God’s great judgment seat. But there is neither East nor West, Nor race, nor clan, nor birth When two strong men stand Face to face, Though they come from The [...]
Reprint August 21-27, 2003 Man’s inhumanity to man is compounded many times over when the inhumanity is linked to the fact of being both intraracial and interracial as it is here in Mississippi. Here, the black underclass gets a double whammy of prejudice from the black overlord niggeratti and the white racialists who don’t believe [...]
Reprint July 10-16, 2003 Speak now or forever … Census figures in 1990 showed that blacks in Jackson, Mississippi for that year enjoyed an annual income of 1.9 billion dollars, a startling statistic considering the usual poverty stricken image of the average Jackson black resident. In fact, 73% black, Jackson describes itself as “The Capital [...]
Reprint July 24-30, 2003 Some for the pleasures Of this world And others sigh for Prophets paradise to come. Oh take the cash, And let the credit go. Nor heed the rumbling Of the distant drums! Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam It seems whenever black people get in position to exercise power, they screw that opportunity [...]
Reprint June 21-27, 2005 I sent my soul through The invisible, Some letter of that after-life To spell. By and by it returned to Me and said, ‘I, myself, am heaven and hell!’ For if the wine you sip, The lips you press Ends in what all ends in — yes, Think that today you [...]
Reprint: July 7-13, 2005 In the crescendo of joy over the election of new Jackson mayor Mayor Frank Melton to office, Jackson’s 73% black population forgot about the duplicity of black race politicians such as Ward 2’s Leslie McLemore and Ward 6’s Marshand Crisler. Those two crooks should never be permitted to debate principled issues [...]
Reprint: June 16-22, 2005 In the dark days of abject segregation, when black folks had absolutely no rights that whites were bound to respect, and, moreover, black people had better act as though they had no rights, even when they knew differently. I’m 78 years old, and I remember those days, quite well! Years ago [...]
Reprint: Aug. 7, 2003 Living black in Mississippi Another Mississippi election day has come. This election chooses party candidates who will vie for victory in the Nov. 3 General Election pitting Democrats against Republicans and Independents. For African Americans voting in this year’s ballotings, they may be enjoying their last voting in the state. This [...]
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Malcolm White named chairman of the Mississippi Blues Commission
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