Confederate Flag Hottie MURDERED? (Jackson, Oxford: 2015, construction, live)

[GrandviewGloria]

Following the Civil War, Mississippians of all colors endured a century of hellish poverty. People barely survived. Many did NOT survive. White and Black Mississippians helped each other live through that era. The horrors of Reconstruction melded into the exploitation of the state's resources, by the Robber Barons of the Northeast. Practices smacking of Colonialism, such as discriminatory rates for shipping via rail, mimicked England's exploitation and subjugation of India, and kept the South dirt poor.

We, Black, White, and Native American, emerged from that Century of Poverty as ONE PEOPLE - a nation unto itself, surrounded by America.

As a poor Indian girl, I grew up in an abandoned sharecropper's shack, at the back of a small plantation, owned by Black aristocrats. Those aristos' ownership of that land went back several generations - possibly predating the Civil War. And that family was hardly unique. White plantation owners frequently willed their fortunes to Blacks, motivated by gratitude and genuine LOVE.

Expressions of the deep empathy between races are everywhere, and HAVE BEEN everywhere, since long before the Civil War. This is the REALITY masked by the MYTH: a myth constructed by Northerners, in order to keep Mississippi divided, in order that its resources (which include its young men, who, for generations, have been regarded as prime cannon fodder, for the War Machine) can continue to be exploited. It is not surprising, to me, that Anthony Hervey's ancestors proudly fought in the Civil War, or that the family are proud of that heritage.

Except for the plucked eyebrows, Hervey seems to have been a beautiful man. If he'd grown up where I lived, my Great Grandmother would have looked at him, and said "Half Indian". From the shape of his face, and from his frame, I would guess that the 'half' was Choctaw (although whites would guess 'Cherokee'). In any event, it seems that a gang of murderers have, probably unwittingly, done the bidding of the powerful interests holding Mississippi down. Anthony Hervey is no more.

Jackson Jambalaya: MHP asks for help in Hervey crash

[RegalSin]

The problem is not the flag. The problem is that selfish people who have no idea about anything are happy about downing the flag. It is like when Obama was elected AKA "My prez is black" on the back of people cars. He is a beautiful looking man and I would love to see the comparisons of the men who ran him down.

[Desert kid]

I saw Mr. Hervey in Oxford when I was there.