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I did not say there were excuses......i told you I doubted Killen was very remorseful and that Mississippians aren't crazy about outsiders telling them what to do and that has not changed nor were Jim Crow the only time that happened.

There was violence over unionization attempts at Laurel in the 60s as well...and about other things involving outsiders on missions.

Now there is talk of unionizing Nissan near Jackson.

As an example of my obvious jadedness. I recall doing an "oral report" on this incident in 1970 for my 8th grade class at Mt Salus Presbyterian from Reader's Digest which was of course sympathetic to the dead men. I remember having to struggle to get through the more harsh parts like "well, at least I got me a ni$$er" allegedly uttered by one of the younger perps. I recall as well being called a Ni$$er Lover by some of my less enlightened classmates but they were selling wolf tickets and didn't really want trouble.

It was all so clear back then....the good guys and the bad. But yes....now even though it's obvious to anyone with half a brain that murderers should be prosecuted...I'm not as worked up over the end game anymore. I think anyone here who knows me knows that.

There is politics behind this which doesn't negate the crime but the politics is there none the less. I am tired of seeing my state as the whipping boy. I see the national media amping up attacks on the South to charactiture W's base...it's one of the few weapons thet have. I am not at all happpy with how how race relations have turned out. Blacks and whites in Mississippi are still polarized but now less civil and it's a helluva lot more dangerous and in some place incredibly corrupt and decaying.

Like I said....I don't have any more answers...I really do not but the post Jim Crow era is very very mixed. Blacks are free and arguably have more power than ever before but they are angry and their culture has eroded markedly. Whites have fled to the suburbs. It's a mess.

So everyone is happpy some 80 year old murderer gets his just desserts but Rome is still burning. And it's not just Mississippi. This whole disaffected underclass has spread and is being fed by La Migra as we speak. Mississippi just happens to be ground zero for black-white seismic plate shifting.

Where we go from here I have no clue. There are some black conservative bright spots treading water down there but it's dangerous for them.

Btw...Memphis is basically the same thing magnified.

Everyone talked about colorblind but that's not what they really wanted. They wanted preference and redress and victim status and that has been exploited far beyond my tolerance. I don't think those who preach colorblind on this forum truly want it. Few can stomach candid talk.....not you but others.

Executing Killen is a windowdressing....justice nontheless but just a gesture of justice. The dynamics remain ominous.

I am sorry for my home.