MIM quoted in POLITICO – Apathy in Yazoo
Brett Kittredge, editor of a conservative Mississippi political blog, emails:
As for the comments Barbour made about it not being that bad, I don’t think there is a whole lot unusual about what Barbour said and I think you’d see that with many of his white contemporaries.
Apathy is the way to describe the attitude, for better or for worse. They obviously weren’t marching with King but they weren’t putting hoods over their heads either. What we’ve gotten over the past 20 years is just a glorification (for lack of better word) from the media and Hollywood about what happened in Mississippi and elsewhere that you were either doing one or the other, and I would venture to say most weren’t, they were focusing on something else (whether that’s going to college or chasing girls, or both).
Today’s storm over Barbour and race — a storm that was inevitably, at some point, going to happen — certainly has something to do with the very different worlds that South and North still inhabit.
POLITICO
12/20/10
Magnolia Tribune
