Archive for July 2009

An Open Letter to Brad White, Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party

Dear Chairman White:
Sen. Lydia Chassaniol’s enthusiastic participation in the recent annual conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens calls attention to a problem that is much bigger, and much more dangerous, than one state senator.
Earlier today, three experienced activists asked me why I was singling out Sen. Chassaniol when so many white legislators, of both [...]

White Separatism in the Mississippi State Senate?

Last weekend, Sen. Lydia Chassaniol (R-Winona) was the keynote speaker at the annual convention of the Council of Conservative Citizens, an organization that has been classified as a white separatist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and described as having “a thinly-veiled white supremacist agenda” by The New York Times.  On the CCC [...]