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Thread ID: 16388 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-01-23
2005-01-23 05:07 | User Profile
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AP article on Mississippi CofCC
Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, issued a report last fall that said at least 38 current federal, state and local office holders in several states had attended CCC meetings since 2000, with most giving speeches to local chapters. It said 23 were from Mississippi.
State Rep. John Moore, R-Brandon, said that he's scheduled to speak at the CCC gathering on Thursday. He said he'll talk about issues to be considered during the current legislative session.
Moore said he didn't know anything about the group's position on race.
"If I find out for certain they are a racist organization, I am going to confront them," he said.
"You hear that the NAACP is racist, but that wouldn't keep me from talking to them," Moore added.
He said he had never looked at the CCC's Web site, but he sat with an AP reporter and scrolled through it. After looking at the question-and-answer section on race, Moore said: "I didn't get any indication from this that they were racist."
Moore looked at other parts of the Web site, including an announcement that Hinson is running for alderman in Pearl.
The announcement says: "Pearl is a pretty conservative city, but as the white flight keeps moving towards Rankin County and Pearl from neighboring Jackson black flight seems to be following. Hinson knows that conservatism must remain strong in Pearl or Pearl will become a little Jackson. Pearl is 85% White and just across the Pearl River from Jackson which is 79% Black. Pearl has had 1 homocide in 2004 and Jackson 49."
Moore shook his head.
"I'd just confront them straight up and ask them if they're a racist organization," Moore said. "I'm not going to associate with any organization which chooses racism, period."
When Hinson was asked why he used the race statistics in his announcement, he said: "It's just a matter of fact."
Hinson said minorities can talk about white people, but when whites talk about minorities, "their freedom of speech is zipped, closed."