"There is not systemic racism" says a governor who named April as Confederate Heritage Month

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Analysis: "There is not systemic racism" says a governor who named April as Confederate Heritage Month

Analysis | ‘There is not systemic racism’ says a governor who named April as Confederate Heritage...
The politics of the moment reward a superficial understanding of race and discriminatory systems.
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9:16 AM · Apr 30, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/30/there-is-not-systemic-racism-says-governor-who-named-april-confederate-heritage-month/

Fox News host Laura Ingraham welcomed five Republican governors on Thursday night for a conversation broadly about politics in the United States but often specifically about the broader cultural fights that have gripped the political right.

The discussion occurred the day after President Biden's first address to Congress, during which he outlined a broad agenda focused on demonstrating the value of government. Ingraham picked out three clips of Biden's speech for her guests to consider — two of which focused on a brief section of the address that dealt with systemic racism.

In one clip, Biden says that “we have to come together to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people they serve to root out systemic racism in our criminal justice system, and police reform in George Floyd's name” — referring to the man killed by a police officer in Minneapolis last year.

Ingraham asked Gov. Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) to respond.

“Governor Reeves, activists say it is criminal to say there is not systemic racism in the country,” she said. “That video of George Floyd, other law enforcement involved shootings of African American men, the video plays and unrest often erupts. Your reaction to what he claimed about the systemic racism.”

“There is not systemic racism in America,” Reeves replied. “We live in the greatest country in the history of mankind. And I'll just tell you in Mississippi, I was very proud of the fact that last year we had, we had peaceful protesters, but we did not have one event in which there was a riot. And the reason for that is because in our state, we back the blue, we support the police.”

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[ismnotwasm]

1. So "supporting the police" equals "no systematic racism"

What a perfectly predictable take from a racist Republican.

Denying systemic racism *is* racism

[Historic NY]

2. Loser Heritage Month How your daddy lost a war over slavery...?

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3. Mississippi Secession Ordinance

... Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery ... The hostility to this institution ... advocates negro equality, socially and politically ...

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp