Mississippi: A Documentary History

Rating:
Summary: More Politically Correct Revisionism
Review: As I started to peruse this book which my dear wife had purchased as a Christmas present for me, I saw one section with quotes from Ted Rall in which the author describes Rall as "sardonic and biting"

I knew I was in trouble already. Rall is a lot more than just sardonic and biting. He is a first class South-hater and America basher who is too far left to even be on the roster at The Nation or Mother Jones.

Bond has devoted 80% of the book to struggles over race and with the expected PC structuring.

On the recent flag vote, no mention that 40% of blacks voted to keep the old flag.

He treats Reconstruction as an idyllic period and Radical Republicans as saints and no mention of carpetbaggers or scalawags or the disenfranchisement of many whites during that period nor the election of in some cases puppet illiterate blacks.

Nor is any time devoted to the state's current climate of declining urban areas and rampant black crime that is more commonly found in Soweto or Kingston. "Freedom" has not evolved as a thing of beauty. It is much more complicated than that. Many whites and middle class blacks live in fear from the crime epidemic and many young blacks have a hostility to whites that used to be only found up North.

Also, no mention of the extortion racket that has consumed the state recently with the trial lawyers and the ready pool of willing jurors. That is a story unto itself. Nothing...nada...no mention.

This book is just more southern whitey as the bogeyman gobbledygook. Same old same old.

Charles Byrd
Ole Miss Poli Sci 1980
7th generation Mississippi
Descended from Big Tom Raspberry Byrd and Pappy Tom Sullivan amongst others of note.

PS: This author "don't know diddly".