# @realdlhughley on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-02-16T02:42:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** realdlhughley (@realdlhughley) — https://gondola.cc/realdlhughley

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SEGREGATED JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN THE YEAR #2023 👍🏻🇺🇸 #TeamDL Repost from yourrightscamp
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#Jackson, a city in which 82.6% of its 156,803 population are Black, will soon have a separate court system and a police force that is appointed entirely by white state officials after a heated debate in the #Mississippi House that went on for over four hours.

A new district within the city will be governed by two judges appointed by the white chief justice of the Mississippi #SupremeCourt if House Bill 1020 becomes law later this session. The district will include all of the city's majority-white neighborhoods. The white state attorney general will appoint four prosecutors, two court clerks, and four public defenders for the new district. In addition, the white state public safety commissioner will oversee the expansion of Capitol #Police, led by a white chief.

“Only in Mississippi would we have a bill like this … where we say solving the problem requires removing the #vote from Black people,” Rep. Ed Blackmon, a Democrat from Canton, said while pleading with his colleagues to oppose the measure.

Earlier this year, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba accused the Legislature of practicing "plantation politics" regarding Jackson and said of the new bill, “It reminds me of apartheid.”

“This is just like the #1890 Constitution all over again,” Blackmon said from the floor, referencing the #JimCrow Era 1890 Constitution that denied Black Mississippians voting rights. “We are doing exactly what they said they were doing back then: ‘Helping those people because they can’t govern themselves.'”

The decision, made by white Republican legislators, to split its judicial district in two by race and install an enlarged police force in a city with the largest Black population in the country is rooted in the paternalistic history of racial segregation, Jim Crow terror, and the still bleeding legacy of chattel slavery. 

Source: http://ow.ly/ntpj50MTmiq

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vote, mississippi, 2023, police, teamdl, jackson, jimcrow, supremecourt, 1890

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