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Haley Barbour’s Disingenuous Comparison

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 28. Dec, 2010 in california, civil rights movement, mississippi, race and racism

UPDATE 12/29: Justin Elliott spoke with Steve Mangold and was able to elaborate on Mangold’s letter. As you may recall, when Haley Barbour was asked by the Weekly Standard what it was like to grow up in Yazoo City, MS “in the midst of the civil rights revolution,” Barbour said, ““I just don’t remember it [...]

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Haley Barbour’s Raid on Historical Memory

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 21. Dec, 2010 in breaking news, civil rights movement, election, mississippi, politics, race and racism, voting rights

(An update follows this post.) Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is at it again. Seems like every time Barbour pops up in the news these days he’s busy whitewashing Mississippi’s racist past. The latest came my way yesterday via Digby and Joan McCarter at Kos. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, Barbour had the audacity [...]

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Gustav

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 30. Aug, 2008 in breaking news, class and poverty, economic policy, katrina, MS Gulf Coast, nola, race and racism

Gustav is now a Category 4 hurricane. HAVANA, Cuba – Gustav has grown to a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, U.S. forecasters said Saturday, as the storm pummeled a Cuban province, threatened Havana and led to the evacuations of more than 240,000 Cubans. The parallels to Hurricane Katrina three years ago are striking. [...]

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Government Homelessness Programs: A MS Gulf Coast Triptych

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 31. Jan, 2008 in breaking news, class and poverty, environmental justice, friends, human rights, katrina, MS Gulf Coast, race and racism, Weblogs

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has approved MS Governor Haley Barbour’s plan to divert $600 of Federal Community Development Block Grant funds from low-income housing recovery to a Port Expansion Plan in Gulfport. In his letter to Gov. Haley Barbour, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that although he’s concerned about using the housing [...]

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