Miss. Gov. Denies Pardon for Black Veteran

By SHELIA BYRD, Associated Press Writer
48 minutes ago


JACKSON, Miss. - Gov. Haley Barbour won't grant a posthumous pardon to a black Korean War veteran who was wrongfully convicted in segregationist Mississippi after he tried to enroll in an all-white university.

Clyde Kennard was convicted of purchasing $25 worth of chicken feed he knew to be stolen in 1960 and sentenced to seven years in prison, but the only witness against him has recanted his testimony. Kennard died in 1963, after being released early because he had intestinal cancer.

Barbour agrees Kennard was wronged but says he won't grant a pardon, despite calls for him to clear the man's name.

"The governor hasn't pardoned anyone, whether they be alive or deceased," Barbour spokesman Pete Smith said Thursday. "The governor seems to think Kennard's rights would have been restored prior to him being governor, if he was still alive."

Entire article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060504/ap_on_re_us/mississippi_pardon;_ylt=ApyrJYsuyXGWLkBBhSdz33as0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg-

Sums it up nicely, doesn't it?:thumbsup:

Even for a symbolic gesture.

to scream. For the love of god, we have been pardoning people like this for years. I would bet you if the man was alive there would be some other bullshit excuse.

By voting for him

By specifically denying this attempt to correct an obvious injustice, he's clearly painted himself as callous and uncaring.

I hope this is brought up in his next election attempt if he has one.

excuse for a person. And he has offspring! which means that some other life form had to actually - OMG! i think i am ill...

... The Council of Conservative Citizens was founded in the mid-1990s as an outgrowth of the Citizens Councils of America. The Citizens Councils emerged in the mid-1950s as part of a white segregationist response to federally mandated integration of public facilities, especially following the 1954 Supreme Court ruling against separate-but-equal schools. This backlash movement, primarily based in the South, brought together whites of all classes and backgrounds. The prominence of the Citizens Councils resulted from the incorporation of prominent local and state politicians in the state councils. (6) Like the Citizens Council, the CCC constantly rails against communists and nonwhites. The anti-Semitism associated with the predecessor councils remains an underlying current in the CCC ...
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1461

Far Right Group Uses Barbour's Picture
Statewide 10/15/03
... WLBT found Republican candidate Haley Barbour on a website for the Council of Conservative Citizens, an organization which touts itself as the true voice of the American right. Barbour is on the front page of the national website along with state Senator Bucky Huggins. The picture is taken from the Black Hawk Barbecue and rally held on July 19th, which was sponsored by the Council of Conservative Citizens. This oraganization says it opposes sponsored race preference programs like affirmative action and forced integration. It also questions whether Martin Luther King deserves a holiday in his honor. The council states that it stands against the "tide of nonwhite, Third World immigrants swamping this country" ...
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1484475


Barbour campaign shows GOP's racist side
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist, 10/29/2003

... Barbour has blatantly appealed to the most racist elements in Mississippi by defiantly refusing to ask the Council of Conservative Citizens to remove his photograph from its website home page. The photo shows Barbour at a CCC-sponsored barbecue with five other men, including CCC field director Bill Lord.

The CCC grew out of the racist white citizens councils that fought integration during the civil rights movement. In yet another example of its hatred, the CCC home page features an article titled "The Racial Compact." The article proposes a South African-style apartheid in most of the United States reserved for the "Nordish-American population." African-Americans, who are referred to as "Congoid," would be shoved into what is now Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and north Texas. Latinos would be consigned to south Texas and New Mexico.

The article defends a concept of "moral racism" in which "Nordish racial salvation, saving the Nordish race from diminishment and destruction by racial intermixture and replacement, preventing the loss of more Nordish racial-genetic wealth, is a life and death matter of ultimate self-interest that exceeds all other considerations in importance."

Another article says that because of low African-American support for the California recall, it proves that "negroes should not even be labeled as being in the same `nation' as Whites, much less should they be given any voting rights to influence the conduct of government in that nation." The same article veers into an attack on career women, declaring "with thanks to liberal Jews like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan," women "have become foreigners in their own land." The article says women who pursue careers have succumbed to the "anti-Christian propaganda" and are "abandoning their God-created role." It said "Welcome to Amazon America, where we celebrate the castrating of the white male daily" ...

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/10/29/barbour_campaign_shows_gops_racist_side/

Mississippi... for the first time ever is not the poorest state in the country!

And the Republicans deserve all the credit for that!

That's right... the Republicans and The pResident deserve 100% of the credit for the fact that Mississippi is no longer the most impoverished state in the entire country... for the first time ever!

Governor Haley Barber... because you and your fellow Republicans deliberately drowned New Orleans, the state of Louisiana is now the most devastatingly poor state in the entire country!

Congratulations, Haley Barber and The GOP! Mississippi is now Number Forty-Nine!




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Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina knocked $4,032, or 14%, off income, pushing the state to the bottom. It was the first time Mississippi was not ranked the nation's poorest state.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-03-energy-states_x.htm





(Pssst... New Orleans... listen-up... Mississippi has levees too! Hang in there! Hurricane season is only weeks away!)

Mississippi was one of the wealthiest states in the country pre- Civil War.

That being said, it was built on the backs of slaves.

Is if it gets enough attention. :kick:

on the many decent folk in this country who have a sense of honor, propriety, and the Constitution.

Miss. Gov. Denies Pardon for Black Veteran
Miss. Governor Says No Posthumous Pardon for Black Man Convicted in College Desegregation Attempt
By SHELIA BYRD

JACKSON, Miss. May 4, 2006 (AP)— Gov. Haley Barbour won't grant a posthumous pardon to a black Korean War veteran who was wrongfully convicted in segregationist Mississippi after he tried to enroll in an all-white university.

Clyde Kennard was convicted of purchasing $25 worth of chicken feed he knew to be stolen in 1960 and sentenced to seven years in prison, but the only witness against him has recanted his testimony. Kennard died in 1963, after being released early because he had intestinal cancer.

Barbour agrees Kennard was wronged but says he won't grant a pardon, despite calls for him to clear the man's name.

"The governor hasn't pardoned anyone, whether they be alive or deceased," Barbour spokesman Pete Smith said Thursday. "The governor seems to think Kennard's rights would have been restored prior to him being governor, if he was still alive."
(snip/...)

http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/wireStory?id=1924582&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

No Sir.

Barbour used to be head of the RNC, I think. So, I guess his decision is representative of Republicans in general.

a despicable shit, but on the other hand, I think he is a rotten shit. Call me indecisive, but I have to admit, I am still undecided as to which he is and I want to know all the facts before I conclude exactly what kind of a piece of shit he is.

Yikes.

He never pardons anyone, dead or alive, despite any evidence of innocence.

This bastard should NOT be anywhere near a position of power in a civilized society. Apparently, the mouth-breathing knuckledraggers in his constituency believe on the sickening motto of "locking them up and throwing away the key," barbaric practice that has shown disastrous results anywhere it has been applied.

What kind of barbaric, retrograde, medieval society applies such a cruel and unusual punishment to a man for such a small crime?

It's hard to believe or comprehend, other than in the context of an inhumane culture. Would a white person get the same sentence?

I'm truly disturbed.

:wtf:

When we throw around these sentences of five, seven, and ten years, we have to realize just how long that actually is.

I think I'm going to be sick.

:puke:

I'm a huge Stanley Kubrick fan.
What are you trying to say?

I didn't expect anything different from him. CCoC is Council of Conservative Citizens a racist organization.

Barbour and CCoC

But no one thinks there is anything really wrong with the CCofC - they are just so small time. :sarcasm:

(That is basically what a conservative told me on another forum, no big deal.)

racists in the US. They have close relationship with many politicians republican and unfortunately democrat. Barbour's predecessor also visited one of their rallies. It seems to me that no one can get elected in Mississippi without their support. pretty scary isn't.

You don't meet many folks that admit to the membership, but there are thousands of members.

They like to join the rotary club and the kiawanas and every social organization they can.

I wish more folks were aware of how "involved" and creepy they are.

He should have been given justice when he was alive.

A war vet gets screwed in this country while a POS like Barbour is elected governor.

I guess the confederates won after all. This country looks more like the confederacy than the United States of America.