Hyde-Smith Attended Segregation Academy

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/24/hyde-smith-attended-segregation-academy/

November 24, 2018 at 2:36 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments

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“Cindy Hyde-Smith’s embattled bid for another two years in the Senate hit another race-related hurdle this weekend, as a report in a Mississippi newspaper revealed the Republican incumbent graduated high school at a segregation academy,” Politico reports.

“A photograph from the 1975 edition of the Lawrence County Academy yearbook, published Friday by the Jackson Free Press, appears to show Hyde-Smith among a group of cheerleaders — including a mascot holding a Confederate flag who appears to be wearing a costume imitating a Confederate general’s uniform. A sophomore girl in the picture is identified in the caption as Cindy Hyde.”

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GOP is currentky like the bar scene in star wars.

[janterry]

1. she sent her daughter to another 'segregation' academy

which just adds to narrative.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Deeper dive at Jackson Free Press

Link in the link.

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/nov/23/hyde-smith-attended-all-white-seg-academy-avoid-in/

In that reticence about her high-school years, Hyde-Smith is like the man who appointed her to the U.S. Senate seat, Gov. Phil Bryant, who attended one of the Citizens Council academies set up around Jackson by the virulently racist organization for white families fleeing newly integrated schools. Local newspapers treated announcements from those schools about sports and other honors the same as public schools, while running photos of children with a “Citizens Council: States Rights, Racial Integrity” placard in front of them.

The 1975 yearbook featured Lawrence County mascot Col. Reb on the front, who was also the mascot of Ole Miss at the time.

#Bryant also does not publicize that he attended Council McCluer School in south Jackson, which a local historian confirmed through yearbooks for a column in the Jackson Free Press last year.

#Former Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Rickey Cole, who knew Hyde-Smith when she was a Democratic state senator before she became Republican in 2010 to run for state agriculture commissioner, said Hyde-Smith would have known why she was at a school like Lawrence County Academy.

#“When the public schools in Mississippi were ordered desegregated, many thousands of white families cobbled together what they could laughingly call a school to send their children to for no other reason except they didn’t want them to be around n-words or to be treated or behave as equal to black people,” Cole said.

It's a little nugget of history that those of us who are descendants of "the other side" of Him Crow just know.

It's why I deeply resent how little kids in NJ get back from the Fed Gov for education. Hopefully that can change with our new delegation applying for the right Grants. I don't want my money going to a bunch of undeserving entitled bigoted little brats.

States Rights works all kinds of ways.

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. Hyde-smith needs to be sent for an intervention - not congress.....

[Scruffy1]

4. This is normal in Mississippi.

As a matter of fact it's pretty common in the North where I live. It goes back to 19th century. Before the civil War there was little public education in the South and the wealthy started private schools for their children or hired tutors. After the Civil War they simply refused to adequately fund public schools because they did not want to pay taxes for them. Before the war taxes were tiny and they didn't want to pay more. In Misssissippi even smaller cities have all white private schools. They can afford this by not funding the public schools adequately. Jeff Sessions made his "bones" fighting an Alabam Supreme Court order to adequately fund the public schools as Alabama Attorney General.
The first time I went down South was in the 1960's when schools were still officially segregated. Black teachers were paid less than half of what white teachers made and the schools were a disgrace. A scant quantity of old books and falling down schools. There has been a lot of improvement, but it's still got a long way to go.
Missiissippi is really two states. There is the Delta which is majority black,the City of Jackson, and then the rest of the state. You don't find much racism in either of those places and they vote Democratic.
Here in the North we simply ghettoize the black poulation in the inner city. It has the same result. As a matter of fact Minnesota,where I live, and Wisconsin consistantly rank as the most racists states when you compare minority outcomes to the white population. I see more racism here than I do in the South, but then I only visit places that are majority black like the Delta.
Until we integrate schools by Metro areas rather than city limits we are going to get the same results. This is all due to a Supreme Court decision many years ago concerning Detroit.

[ProudLib72]

5. Sorry, but the fact that she went to a segregation academy is not the real story for me

The real story for me is the fact that there is still such a thing as a "segregation academy". Holy fucking hell, how is this even possible?

[LeftInTX]

6. There isn't...they are pretty much illegal.

Supreme Court decision in Runyon v. McCrary (427 U.S. 160 [1976]), prohibited racial exclusion in private schools.

[ProudLib72]

7. Well thank goodness for that. I guess Cindy Hyde Smith is the last of the "old guard" then

Indoctrinated in hate from an early age. Just what the Senate needs.

[SoCalDem]

8. Sorry, but racism is hereditary

Grand parents & parents pass it on to their young

[LeftInTX]

9. Just because private schools can't refuse students based on race, doesn't mean that hate is gone

I bet most people who wear MAGA hats went to public schools.

I think the worst racists in the country probably went to lower income public schools.

[ProudLib72]

10. I was being partiallly facetious

I know changing the law doesn't necessarily equate to a change in the attitude. My point was about institutionalized racism in education. Sure racism in education still exists. No doubt about it. It's just more subtle now. I don't want Cindy Hyde Smith in the Senate pining away for the good old days, though, when blatant racism was the norm and an accepted part of American society.

Here she is a few days ago in her Confederate hat, wishing to return to the antebellum days.

[Demovictory9]

11. the creation of these schools was the foundation of private schools across the south

[Gothmog]

12. Here is a non-apology response from her campaign

Link to tweet