Oh, and he’s a Republican. I didn’t mention that in the headline? Probably because it wasn’t necessary. So, yeah, because Republican men apparently can’t control themselves — as if that hasn’t already become glaringly obvious — Mississippi state Rep. Robert Foster has rededicated himself to being a total dorkus, refusing to travel with a woman reporter who hoped…
Category: Mississippi
GOP lawmaker allegedly punched his wife for undressing too slowly for sex
How any Republican can get even one woman’s vote is beyond me. What they do in the halls of government is bad enough, and then there’s shit like this. According to recent media reports, Doug McLeod, a Mississippi state representative, was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly punching his wife in the face. Why did…
Cindy Hyde-Smith attended 'segregation academy' to avoid newly integrated schools
The Jackson Free Press has published a blockbuster story about the Republicans’ too-racist-even-for-Mississippi Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith. Seems she comes by her antebellum attitudes about race at least in part via her secondary-school education. The paper reports that Hyde-Smith attended a “segregation academy” whose primary purpose was to allow students to avoid mingling with African-Americans….
Karma about Jefferson Davis Defender of Slavery.
I was thinking about defender of slavery and traitor Jefferson Davis tonight because of the Senate debate in MS, and I am not sure if I ever wrote about how Davis’ slaves reacted to their “benevolent” slave owner. First up, there is William Jackson who was a slave in the household of Jefferson Davis and…