Deep South Voice writes that the governor took to Twitter last weekend and said: “If Mike Espy and the liberal Democrats gain the senate we will take that first step into a thousand years of darkness.” Interesting word choice when describing the consequences of Mississippi electing its first black Senator in over 139 years.
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Mississippi has a very long and very violent history of racism. Six hundred black people were lynched between 1877 to 1950, the most of any state. Up until 2017, the state still had predominately segregated schools. This makes it all the more unsurprising that the governor believes Mike Espy being elected to the Senate would open the doors of Guf and bring about the fourth impact.
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Espy was an elected Congressman from 1987-1993 until President Clinton appointed him to US Secretary of Agriculture.
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