Saturday, January 21, 2012

And in Mississippi no less

With their "noble" history on racial issues.
Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's grants of commutations or pardons to more than 200 prisoners, all but eight in his final days in office, disproportionately benefited white offenders among a predominantly black prison population, a Reuters analysis found.

5 comments:

StonyPillow said...

The Trashing Of The Brand is now complete.

Sharon said...

The pardonees were various murderers who worked in and around the governor's mansion.
You wouldn't expect Boss Hawg to allow Black murderers to be trustees, would you?

pansypoo said...

how mississippi to the core.

merlallen said...

they had to do an analysis to come to an obvious conclusion?

Anonymous said...

Of 242 Republican members of the House of Representatives, two are black.

Of 221 prisoners pardoned by Republican Haley Barbour, eight are black.

No wonder Boss Hogg didn’t run for president – he’s way out of touch with his party’s base, what with him being so overly deferential to the coloreds and all.