The coveted first annual Haley Barbour HICK Prize is an award going to any conservative who's done an outstanding job in dropping all the pretense of living in a post-1964 world and straight up reveals to the world what a real conservative believes in when the doors are shut and there's none of them pesky reporters with their makaka tape recorders around.
Can anyone compete with Haley Barbour this year for this prize? Why yes...
His own brother canWhile mayor,
Jeppie Barbour became a central figure in reporter Willie Morris' 1971 book about the integration of Yazoo City. The book largely portrayed Barbour as a relative moderate on race.
But during one interview for the book, Barbour told Morris that he was having trouble working with the town's biracial commission, complaining that whites could no longer appoint black commissioners of their choosing. From the book, as quoted at length by HuffPo's Amanda Terkel:
"Maybe five years ago," he said, "you could've appointed a colored man yourself. Now you simply can't get away with it. They're goin' to have to pick their own leaders. You could've gotten on radio five years ago using these very words, 'George Collins is this ni**er we've appointed,' and could've gotten away with it. I guess they're just goin' through a state of being rebellious and hard-nosed and not listenin' to white people like they used to."
He also complained about a black boycott of white businesses -- a tactic the Citizens Council was known to use, albeit in reverse.
We were having some fish for lunch in the back room at Danrie's, and Jeppie complained about the Negro boycott. "South Main Street's dryin' up," he said, and listed the stores that had gone out of business, including one drugstore hit hardest "because it specialized in chitlin' sandwiches and two-dollar pistols." The Negro leaders in charge now "are completely irresponsible. They're determined to destroy the whites economically. That's totally unreasonable. Unfortunately they've got the support of the colored community now."
He also noted the usefulness of pepper spray when dealing with public drunkenness...
"relative moderate" :banghead:
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