Don& #39;t reply to a story of mine about Mississippi racism with, "Well, it IS Mississippi, so..."

I don& #39;t report these stories so smug Californians/Michiganders et al., can hop on a high horse & look down on the Blackest state. I do it to make MS better.

Try that in your state.

Cause I promise y& #39;all& #39;s states all have racism too—all 49 of them. Mississippi is just a mirror for the rest of America, but lots of folks like to pretend it& #39;s a window to some separate land. It isn& #39;t.

Honestly, the soft bigotry of low expectations is just plain old bigotry. And it& #39;s damaging.

And when directed at Mississippi? It& #39;s racist. Bc the people hurt by it are the almost 4 in 10 Mississippians who are Black that get written out of the story in favor of white racists.

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