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Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Cindy Hyde-Smith and the legacy of racism, bigotry, voter suppression and HATE.




Cindy Hyde-Smith and the legacy of racism, bigotry, voter suppression and HATE.
Worth reading in its entirety:
"....The truth is there wasn't much mystery about it, then or now. The 63-year-old local farmer and veteran of World War I, known as a fearless activist for his black community and for a seminal civil rights group called the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, crumpled from a gunshot in front of dozens of people, including the county sheriff, who saw a white farmer named Noah Smith leaving the scene splattered with the activist's bright-red blood.
Nor is there any debate over why Lamar Smith paid with his life that day. At the instant he was gunned down, the community leader was carrying a bundle of absentee ballots for an upcoming county election, the fruit of his idea for how African Americans in the Brookhaven area could cast votes without the white violence they'd likely encounter at a polling place on Election Day....."



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The ghost of a 1955 Mississippi murder hovers over today's voter suppression in the South.

http://www2.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/cindy-hyde-smith-mississippi-senate-race-mike-espy-lamar-smith-1955-murder-20181118.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR2XtEKyGChxC7qXZn3lNqTnRSKAhNNslp5ocYyFEuXjxwykBlLcS_jYdh0







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