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Advocates continue to push for voting rights restoration of convicted felons in Mississippi Advocates continue push for voting rights restoration of convicted felons in Mississippi By Courtney Ann Jackson | March 9, 2021 at 7:42 PM CST - Updated March 10 at 6:45 AM JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) -Do the crime, do the time. It’s a phrase you’ve heard before. But here in Mississippi, there’s a big consequence that sticks with some offenders for life regardless of the time they serve. Kim Biggs served time for a felony bad check charge. She was ready to start over when she was released but said that proved difficult. ....
Poverty and disenfranchised and suppressed black people since the beginning of time. i think it is rich that today he s having a conversation to connect the dots with slavery and the church shooting. when, in fact, it doesn t seem he has a real deep grasp on the structural racism in this country and how even his own policies from mass incarceration is one that we could tart off talking about, his views on busing that he still doesn t seem to be able to understand how that impacts people socially and other wise and the outcomes that black americans are experiencing right now that it seems to me that he constantly makes these gaffes which are out of touch with where we are today because he comes from an era of this, like, racist paternalism in public policy making of how we have looked at dealing with the issues that the black community faces which frankly come from racist public policy making. but he said he has evolved. he said he made statements 40 years ago that he would not make ....
The most disenfranchised. that is where the election will be won or lost. i think that will happen, and the officials who get this and spend time in focusing on proximity and economic equality, by being able to put up policies in place and bring the communication into the policy conversation with them, that is how you can install a sense of help. you to simply empower them and offer them a solution. a promise to reach across the aisle and a bold result. ....
Freedom there is talk by some of the candidates about a tax, new tax or a fee. wouldn t it make it more possible for the rich to enjoy the second amendment while shutting out once again the poor and the disenfranchised? i said it before and you ll say it again. i have been saying it for years. the vast majority of gun control disproportionately affects people of lower economic means. correct. and the people in these places need guns more than the individuals like you and i or the people pushing the gun control measures. tammy: correct. so it has nothing to do with saving lives. it s about scoring political talking points to get elected. tammy: and isn t it about fear? still pitting americans against americans. they are trying to do that on sex, on race, now economic status. the right, the rich versus the poor. and it seems like everything is technically about how you ....
there s a wonderful passage in proverbs that says hope deferred makes the heart sick. i think what we re seeing is that sickness that comes from a nation that is suffering from a deferral of hope. and it is true for the disenfranchised and marginalized of all races, all ethnicities in this country. we have policies that the obama administration failed to reach, the white blue collar america and with the trump administration he too will fail to reach those same people and if his policies does reach those people, automation will take over their jobs. so there s a frustration that has built up over time that s expressing itself in violence that s rooted in alienation. dr. richardson, you not only pastor the largest church in westchester county you had the conference of black churches which is all denominational ....