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welcome to the show. i am mehdi hasan. they called it black monday. it was the day the supreme court issued its famous ruling in brown v. board of education. a ruling that told americans school segregation was unconstitutional. and for a group of white mississippians, that they came to be known as black monday. the monitor came from this man, thomas pickens brady, a prominent segregationist and future mississippi supreme court justice who gave a defiant speech against the decision entitled, black monday. it was printed as a booklet and passed out to white school children in mississippi. seeped in racism and white supremacist thinking, you might not be surprised to hear that it was published by the white supremacist organization, this is since councils, a group that was also formed in mississippi, right after, take a guess, the brown the board ruling. i am telling you all of this to show you how deeply rooted the racism in mississippi goes, how vicious the backlash was ....
constitutional right to an abortion. for president joe biden to lawmakers, to everyday americans, it seems like everyone is bringing the newly minted justice jackson the behavior of the supreme court of united states. what we have seen in the last weekend on guns, climate, abortion is just a preview of we are seeing not only the overturning of decades of protection, but with the descend upon us, there is an indication of what else could be coming down the line. this affects the personal freedom of everybody. newly minted justice ketanji brown jackson, the first black woman on the supreme court will be on the bench when the next term starts in october. there are already some cases on deck, including an election case that some experts warn could bring complete chaos to american elections. joining me now, talia let mick, legal correspondent for slate and podcast. jim jared kushner and host of jack stiff matters podcast. both are msnbc analysts. some are calli ....
Show you how deeply rooted the racism in mississippi goes, how vicious the backlash was to federally mandated integration of black and white people, because all of this relates directly to what is happening in mississippi today in terms of the floods, the water crisis and tens of thousands of americans, unable to even drink water out of their own taps. so stay with, because going back, even though brown ruled segregation in schools was unconstitutional, it did not and segregation in mississippi, and other southern states. the backlash we told you about turned into a strong, white resistance movement. and supremacist organizations, like the citizen s counsel pushed back on any kind of integration. i am alabama senator sam hugo hard, also executive secretary of the citizens council of alabama. we are dedicated to the preservation of segregation, that is peaceful, and legal means. you heard him. as the jackson free press notes, ....
Happened in the state of mississippi. it s a bit as the poorest state in the country, it s also the blackest, i just put percentage of black people live there outside of washington, d.c.. it s also the state that has high rates of maternal and infant mortality, child poverty, all kinds of problems already. so, limiting reproductive health in any way hurts most in a state like mississippi. where mississippi goes, the south goes. where the south, goes the rest of black merica goes. let s focus on one of those issues, which is that black women are much more likely to die due to complications during pregnancy or giving birth and other women. what impact, specifically, does this ruling have on that horrific statist? if you are forced to have a child, then it raises your risk of having a problem in pregnancy. ....