{"id":34530,"date":"2018-11-28T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34530"},"modified":"2018-11-28T09:21:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T17:21:24","slug":"mississippi-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/28\/mississippi-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Mississippi Burning&#8221; is the 1988 movie starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe about 2 FBI agents sent to Mississippi in 1964 to investigate the deaths of 3 civil rights workers in a small town in Mississippi.\u00a0 That is a movie, but today&#8217;s runoff in the Mississippi special election to replace Republican Senator Thad Cochran who retired for health reasons, is not a movie; is not an event that can just be swept away.\u00a0 There may not be cross burnings and lynchings any more, but this special election between Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy has been full of controversies and racial underpinnings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SUtlJwfNEtI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Politico&#8217;s headline reads &#8220;Mississippi race is Hyde-Smith&#8217;s to lose&#8221; and in my opinion, she should lose, but I am sure she won&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/11\/26\/trump-hyde-smith-mississippi-senate-1017277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Politico<\/span><\/strong><\/a> &#8212; Donald Trump returned to Mississippi on Monday to squash any Democratic hopes of closing out the 2018 midterms with a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>The president held two rallies with Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on the eve of a runoff to ensure his base turns out to vote in a race that was expected to be much less competitive just weeks ago. Democrats saw an opening to potentially contest the race after a controversial remark the Republican senator made about being first in line to attend a \u201cpublic hanging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans responded with a massive, party-wide investment to prevent a repeat of their disastrous special election loss in Alabama last year. National money and staff from both parties flooded in as the race tightened heading into the Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans remain confident Hyde-Smith will win, but Trump\u2019s visit shows the party is leaving nothing to chance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t take any chances,\u201d Trump implored his supporters at the first rally. \u201cYou have to vote. We cannot allow Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to erode [GOP control of the Senate] by winning the great state of Mississippi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hyde-Smith, speaking at Trump&#8217;s second rally of the evening, said she was grateful to Gov. Phil Bryant for appointing her to fill the seat earlier this year following former Sen. Thad Cochran&#8217;s retirement, and called on Republicans to turn out to elect her for the remainder of the term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is such a critical election tomorrow, we have got to go out,&#8221; Hyde-Smith said. &#8220;<strong>What&#8217;s on the ballot tomorrow is not just my name, Cindy Hyde-Smith, it is your conservative values.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/11\/26\/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-caught-in-additional-scandal-in-countdown-to-mississippi-senate-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Salon<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212; &#8230;\u00a0has found herself in the middle of yet another scandal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/24\/politics\/cindy-hyde-smith-confederacy-mississippi-senate-race\/index.html\">According to CNN<\/a>, Hyde-Smith\u00a0co-sponsored a resolution in Mississippi&#8217;s state Senate in 2007 that\u00a0praised a Confederate soldier for his efforts to &#8220;defend his homeland.&#8221; She reportedly also pushed a &#8220;revisionist view of the Civil War.&#8221;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0measure,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/billstatus.ls.state.ms.us\/documents\/2007\/html\/SC\/SC0535SG.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which can be found online<\/a>, is the latest in a series of controversies that have embattled Hyde-Smith during her campaign<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>many of which have\u00a0been interpreted by critics and political observers as having a link to Mississippi&#8217;s long history of racism and slavery.\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>News of the measure comes as\u00a0Hyde-Smith faces mounting backlash for &#8220;joking&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/11\/12\/gop-senate-candidate-running-against-a-black-democrat-said-shed-sit-front-row-at-public-hanging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that she would sit &#8220;in the front row&#8221; at a &#8220;public hanging&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0in a state marred by its history of lynchings\u00a0and after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/11\/16\/gop-senator-cindy-hyde-smith-jokes-about-voter-suppression-in-video-i-think-thats-a-great-idea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she said\u00a0voting\u00a0should be &#8220;a little more difficult&#8221; for &#8220;liberal folks&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 remarks she maintains were made in jest. On Sunday, it was revealed that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/11\/25\/mississippi-senate-candidate-cindy-hyde-smith-attended-a-segregation-academy\/\">Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a &#8220;segregation academy.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Last week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/11\/20\/photos-surface-of-embattled-republican-senator-cindy-hyde-smith-sporting-confederate-soldier-gear\/\">photos surfaced of Hyde-Smith sporting Confederate soldier gear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title___1Tg6U\">Mississippi Senate race sees new controversy in \u2018segregation academy\u2019 revelation<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iframe%20src=http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_joy_mississippirunoff_181125%20height=500%20width=635%20scrolling=no%20border=no\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_joy_mississippirunoff_181125\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title___1Tg6U\">MS Senate race marred by racial controversies<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iframe%20src=http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_vr_mississippi_181127%20height=500%20width=635%20scrolling=no%20border=no\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_vr_mississippi_181127\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Mike Espy responds to Trump as racial tensions simmer in Mississippi senate race<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iframe%20src=http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_wh_deadline_Mississippi_181127%20height=500%20width=635%20scrolling=no%20border=no\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_wh_deadline_Mississippi_181127\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I am a Canadian who grew up in Canada in the 50s and 60s, during the US civil rights era.\u00a0 I remember seeing news footage of the marches with MLK Jr and others like Rep John Lewis of Georgia, the cross burnings,\u00a0the talk of lynchings, segregation of schools . . . and I never understood why this all was happening.\u00a0 After all, for me, people are people, all equal and that is how I was raised.\u00a0 Let me also say that I am also aware of my white privilege, although at the time I was not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The hate that is so manifest in Trump and the Republicans makes no sense to me in many ways, but it is something that must be addressed.\u00a0 In my mind, with the <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/11\/27\/us\/elections\/results-mississippi-senate-runoff-special-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NY Times<\/strong><\/a> announcing that Hyde-Smith won today&#8217;s run-off, the hate has not been addressed.\u00a0 Hyde-Smith is up for re-election in 2020, at the same time as Trump.\u00a0 The hate must be addressed then if not before.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"eln-race-content\">\n<div class=\"eln-race-results\" data-race-id=\"ms-27192-2018-11-27\">\n<div id=\"ms-27192-2018-11-27-results-table-container\" class=\"eln-table-container eln-results-container eln-results-row-senate eln-race-report eln-result-winner \" data-race-id=\"ms-27192-2018-11-27\" data-options=\"{&quot;max_candidates&quot;:5,&quot;show_more&quot;:true,&quot;show_precinct_count&quot;:true,&quot;show_ranked_choice&quot;:true}\">\n<table class=\"eln-table eln-results-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"eln-header eln-name\">Candidate<\/th>\n<th class=\"eln-header eln-party\">Party<\/th>\n<th class=\"eln-header eln-votes\">Votes<\/th>\n<th class=\"eln-header eln-percent\">Pct.<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"eln-row eln-hyde-smith-28529 eln-cindy-hyde-smith eln-party-republican eln-no-image eln-winner\">\n<td class=\"eln-cell eln-name eln-swatch eln-republican\"><strong><span class=\"eln-name-wrap\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span class=\"eln-name-display\">Cindy Hyde-Smith<span class=\"eln-incumbent-label\">*<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"eln-cell eln-party\"><span class=\"eln-party-display\">Republican<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"eln-cell eln-votes\">474,471<\/td>\n<td class=\"eln-cell eln-percent\">53.9<span class=\"eln-percent-sign\">%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"eln-row eln-espy-27501 eln-mike-espy eln-party-democrat eln-no-image eln-last-candidate \">\n<td class=\"eln-cell eln-name \"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span class=\"eln-name-wrap\"><span class=\"eln-name-display\">Mike Espy<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"eln-cell eln-party\"><span class=\"eln-party-display\">Democrat<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"eln-cell eln-votes\">405,486<\/td>\n<td class=\"eln-cell eln-percent\">46.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"eln-note eln-precincts-reporting\"><span class=\"eln-total-votes\">879,957 votes,\u00a0<\/span>99% reporting\u00a0<span class=\"g-precinct-count\">(1,781 of 1,797 precincts)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"eln-note eln-key-note\"><span class=\"eln-incumbent-note\">*\u2009Incumbent<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eln-body\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eln-race-map\">\n<div class=\"eln-map\">\n<div class=\"eln-results-map eln-map-mississippi eln-map-on g-map-scale-1\" data-race-id=\"ms-27192-2018-11-27\" data-map-type=\"leader-pct\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/resist_2.png\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Posted to Care2 <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.care2.com\/news\/member\/775377582\/4128472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mississippi Burning&#8221; is the 1988 movie starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe about 2 FBI agents sent to Mississippi in 1964 to investigate the deaths of 3 civil rights workers in a small town in Mississippi.\u00a0 That is a movie, but today&#8217;s runoff in the Mississippi special election to replace Republican Senator Thad Cochran who <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/28\/mississippi-burning\/' 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