Mississippi lawmakers seek return to Jim Crow with separate white system of justice
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 26, 2023
Jackson, Mississippi’s Black community is outraged that state lawmakers are moving closer to establishing a separate justice system in Jackson for whites and African Americans.
According to Mississippi Today, the proposed new law would let the state’s white chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, its white attorney general, and its white state public safety commissioner appoint new judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and police officers to run a new district in the city that includes all the city’s majority-white neighborhoods.
Such a move would create a separate justice system for whites . . .
