{"id":33842,"date":"2018-11-27T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33842"},"modified":"2018-11-27T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T13:47:10","slug":"espy-vs-hyde-smith-race-still-matters-sadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33842","title":{"rendered":"Espy vs. Hyde-Smith: Race still matters . . . sadly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I do wish this weren’t the case, but race still matters in determining our elected leadership in many of our states.<\/p>\n

I fear we’re going to see an example of it at the end of today when they count the ballots in Mississippi, a state long held up as an example where bigotry and racism run rampant.<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is running for election to a seat to which she was appointed. The Republican is facing Democrat Mike Espy, a former agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration and a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s a runoff election, with Hyde-Smith and Espy competing as the top two finishers in an open contest featuring candidates from both major parties.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t look good for Espy at this moment. Why? Well, Espy is an African-American candidate.<\/em> He also is known as a moderate Democrat, a thoughtful fellow with extensive government experience.<\/p>\n

Hyde-Smith has been caught in a number of troubling incidents. She said just a few weeks ago that she would be on the front row if she were invited to a “public hanging.” Many substituted the term “hanging”<\/em> with “lynching,”<\/em> which of course sounds the siren to African-Americans who know what that entails.<\/p>\n

She then offered one of those idiotic non-apologies, saying she is sorry to “anyone who was offended” by her remarks. She also had her picture taken in 2014 wearing a Confederate cap, packing a rifle under a caption that extolled the Confederacy’s glowing role in state history.<\/p>\n

Sheesh, man!<\/em><\/p>\n

Mississippi is a deeply Republican state. Espy is hoping to capture lightning with a record African-American turnout today, while winning roughly a quarter of the white vote. Will it happen? I hope it does.<\/p>\n

Here, though, is one more kick in the gut: The third-place finisher in that earlier election was a Donald Trump sycophant, Chris McDaniel; most of the votes that McDaniel got are damn near a cinch to end up in Hyde-Smith’s column at day’s end.<\/p>\n

Yes, we should all should be interested in this race, even though it’s down yonder in Mississippi. The winner will help write national laws that affect all of us.<\/p>\n

Thus, I am pulling for Mike Espy.<\/p>\n\n

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I do wish this weren’t the case, but race still matters in determining our elected leadership in many of our states. I fear we’re going to see an example of it at the end of today when they count the ballots in Mississippi, a state long held up as an example where bigotry and racism … Continue reading Espy vs. Hyde-Smith: Race still matters . . . sadly<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7926,14],"tags":[1108,1343,1941,8152,3808,8153],"class_list":["post-33842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security","category-political-news","tag-confederate-states-of-america","tag-democrats","tag-gop","tag-mike-espy","tag-racism","tag-runoff-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33844,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33842\/revisions\/33844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}