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"Scott Sisters to be Freed After 16 Years in Jail for $11 Robbery

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has suspended the life sentences of a pair of African American sisters who had served 16 years in prison for taking part in an $11 armed robbery. For years civil rights advocates, including the NAACP, have called for the release Jamie and Gladys Scott, often known as just as the Scott Sisters. One of the sisters, 38-year-old Jamie Scott, is in need of a kidney transplant. Her sister Gladys Scott has agreed to donate one of her kidneys as a condition for her release from prison."

Is this a misnomer?  A politician with presidential aspiration would issue a pardon for not 1 but 2 prisoners with a double life sentence for armed robbery. Why now?  This advocacy has been non stop since 1998 for the State of Mississippi to correct this injustice.  But, now this born and bred Southern white man who desires to run against this nation's first black man finds love in his heart for these two innocent black women on evening of his candidacy. 

"The incarceration is no longer necessary for public safety or rehabilitation and Jamie Scott's medical condition creates a substantial cost to the state of Mississippi." Barbour said. 

Is this some slight of hand by a Master Trickster to misdirect the people attention now that he has come out in support for his hometown's terrorist organization: The White Citizen Council.

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Should President Obama praise Micheal Vick, MVP candidate for his NFL play in winning the Championship in the Central Division and his selection to the Pro Bowl after being sentenced to prison for running an illegal dog fighting ring?  I think in order to answer the question you need to look at it in black and white terms.  

Young black males do not view dog fighting the same as whites do.  Its a whole different culture.  Blacks do not kiss their dogs in the mouth as you see whites during.  Micheal can do great work in the neighborhoods by sharing his enlightenment.

African America males are concentrated in prisons through out this country instead of colleges.  1 out of 12 prisoners is black when it is 1 out of 36 for Hispanic and 1 out of  87 for white.  Blacks are only 15% of the population in this country.  The solution to crime must not be lock them up and throw away the key, a one size fits all has destroy the black community and is is costing the taxpayers over 50 billion dollars a year for confinement.


The president was addressing a racial problem in this country when he called the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles to thank him for his compassion.  There are some people who do not want this black president to address racial problems in this country.  We saw it when he commented on the Cambridge Crisis and his thoughts on moving The  Mosque near ground zero. The president's comments caused all hell to break loose  in the political punditocracy.


 That call should have been placed.  The highest and best use of the president time is  utilized when it spotlights  problems in this country:  alternative energy and redemption are such.   The President of the United States of America calls a job creator and speaks with passion in thanking him for giving a felon a second chance to ply his craft.  That is the above and beyond what any ex-convict would think the President of the free world would do.  If it was all about alternative energy, its still well and good.


 America must find fuel sources other than fossil and find ways to punish other than prison.  We are running out of one and can not afford the other.  


The president was reported to have said,  "It’s never a level playing field for prisoners when they get out of jail." 


Mr. Lurie said Mr. Obama was happy that he did something on such a national stage that showed his faith in giving someone a second chance after such a major downfall.”


I say to all who is in authority and who are job creators go and do likewise. 

Should President Obama praise Micheal Vick, MVP candidate for his NFL play in winning the Championship in the Central Division after his prison sentence?  I think in order to answer the question you need to look at it in black and white terms.  

Prisons are where you will find this country concentration of African America males.  1 out of 12 prisoners is black when it is 36 for Hispanic and 87 for white. This one size that fits all, lock them up and throw away the key, is costing the taxpayer over 50 billion dollars a year.


This was our president addressing a racial problem in this country.  There are some people who do not want the president to address racial problems in this country.  We saw it when he commented on the Cambridge Crisis and his thoughts on moving The  Mosque near Ground Zero.  The president's comments caused all hell to break loose in the political punditocracy.  


The call should have been place.  The highest and best use of the president time is  utilized when it spotlights a problem in this country. This country must find new energy sources and extend redemption to the forgiven.  


It's reported the Black President of United States of American called up Jeffrey Lurie, a job creator, and  spoke passionate when he thanked him for giving a black man a second chance to ply his craft.


"It’s never a level playing field for prisoners when they get out of jail."


Mr. Lurie was quoted to said, the president was happy that he did something on such a national stage that showed his faith in giving someone a second chance after such a major downfall.”


America must find fuel sources other than fossil and find ways to punish other than prison.  We are running out of one and can not afford the other.  

Two southern men of a certain age one is white and the other is black both are looking through a window after a violent rain storm, one saw stars and the other saw mud.

Harley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi, former Chairman of the Republican Governors, a 2012 presidential hopeful, and Valedictorian of his class at Yazoo, Mississippi High School, in 1964. The Weekly Standard profiled Mr. Barbour in its national magazine.  The Governor was asked was there violent in his school integration,

"You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK," Barbour said. "Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out oaf town. If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."

The White Citizen Council was a terrorist organization.  Its birth place was in Mississippi, July 11, 1954.  It membership was make up of  plantation owners, bankers, lawyers, doctors, legislators, preachers, teachers and  merchants.  They were the 'white collar, Klan.  A lynching by a 'sheet wearing' white man or a 'white collar' white man either way the black man was dead.  They publicly said no violent but their action encouraged white violent against blacks.  No significant desegregation took place in Mississippi for 10 years after Brown v. Topeka.  The Supreme Court ruling that outlawed segregation in education.

John Dittmer, author of Local People: The struggle for civil right in Mississippi tells of 53 black parents who signed a petition to desegregate pubic schools in Yazoo, Mississippi.  The White Citizen Council brought ads in the local paper and listed their names.  Printed up placards and distributed the names around town even posted some in  cotton fields.  They lost their jobs, houses and were forced to move out of the town .

Any black man that sought to integrate or exercise his voting rights was terrorized by the White Citizen Council and ran out of town in Yazoo, Mississippi from 1954 to 1964.  Yet, the man who would be president in 2012 seeks to rewrite history.  Breded to this privilege can he be president to all?

I lived through it all and felt terrorized it was hell!