Ellington

Today marks 41 years since the murder of the three civil rights workers in Neshoba County. As jury deliberation continues all we can do is wait. As you know, yesterday after only 2 or so hours of deliberation Judge Gordon asked the jury what their current numbers were. Supposedly, his actions could be grounds for a mistrial. I don't know exactly what the rules are, but I don't believe he has the explicit power to inquire, at least not so soon after deliberation has begun. Hopefully 6 people will change their minds.

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141426

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Thank God my fears and worries weren't realized!

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2005-06-21T10:26:25-06:00

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141427

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MSNBC is reporting that Killen was found guilty! [quote]An 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty on three counts of manslaughter in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964.[/quote] Story

Author

kaust

Date

2005-06-21T10:27:16-06:00

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141428

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Here I am sitting in Florida wondering what in the world is happening to our country, are they never satisfied. The PC control of the Killen trial on Court TV is horrendous! Morris Dees is the worst pavaricator they could have put on, and of course the black activist on the program are biased, they want what ever they can get out of this... Why don't they give more air time to others with a different opinion of those times so the public can at least glean a gilmer of the truth. NEW YORK - Kenneth B. Clark, an educator and psychologist who spent his life working for racial integration and improvement in the education of black children, has died. He was 90. Clark's pioneering study on the effects of racial discrimination was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its historic 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. ................................. Thirty years after that landmark ruling, Clark described himself as "bewildered" at the persistence of de facto segregation and inferior education for many blacks. "I believed in the 1950s that a significant percentage of Americans were looking for a way out of the morass of segregation," he said in a 1984 interview with The New York Times. "It was wishful thinking. "It took me 10 to 15 years to realized that I seriously underestimated the depth and complexity of Northern racism. ... In the South, you could use the courts to do away with separate toilets and all that nonsense. We haven't found a way of dealing with discrimination in the North." .......................... By the 1980s his optimism about race relations in America had given way to a darker view. Although he continued to shun black separatism, the man once dubbed "the incorrigible integrationist" began to talk of his life as a lost cause. He said he had underestimated the intractability of racism in the North. And in 1990 he was dismayed to learn that his old high school had de facto segregation and ranked as one of the state's worst. "I look back and I shudder and say, 'Oh, God, you really were as naive as some people said you were," Clark told the Washington Post in 1990. "My life has been a series of glorious defeats." The Great people of the Great State of Mississippi will stand up for their integrity inspite of the pc bashing and hatred shown towards them.

Author

Cajie

Date

2005-06-21T10:49:05-06:00

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141429

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The great state of Mississippi did stand up for their integrity today. Praise God for justice, even delayed, and praise God for the courage of Mississippi jurors, of whatever color, for saying today, "Get thee behind me, Satan."

Author

C.W.

Date

2005-06-21T10:52:43-06:00

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141430

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Thank you, Cajie.

Author

Steph

Date

2005-06-21T12:15:08-06:00