Jackson Jambalaya

Hinds County Circuit Judge candidate Ali Shamsid-Deen: the gift that keeps giving. Here is another one of his columns filled with bombastic buffoonery as he compared then-Mayor Kane Ditto to a slave-owner. Par for the course in his Jackson Advocate columns from the 1990's. This one is from November 21, 1991 and shows just a little bit of anger towards the Mayor after he fired Police Chief David Walker:

"The catch phrase being promoted to our community by Jackson Mayor Kane Ditto and the rest of those people who have little real interest and no true concern for the African-American community is "it is time to get on with the healing".

"This phrase reminds me of the experiences of slavery that my grandmother used to relate to my brother and me about her parents who were slaves here in Mississippi.

One of the particular experiences was how the slaves were beaten if the slavemaster was not pleased with their performance. In addition to the beatings, salt was rubbed into the wounds, which increased the pain, but it promoted the healing of the wounds the slave owner thought.

This slave owner mentality seems to be very difficult for some caucasians to overcome. Most of us African Americans realize that slavery is long since over and we are demanding that causcasians understand that we will not take ause from them whether it is intentional or unintentional.

We are tired of caucasians treating us like they always know what is best for us regardless of how their decisions affect us.

Mayor Kane Ditto's attitude is typical of that slave-owner mentality. He is smart enough to realize that his political future in Jackson and indeed Hinds County depends upon how well he is perceived in the African American community. He is like the old slave owner who put African American overseer over the rest of the slaves because he thought that this would make the slaves work better for him."

You simply can not make this up. No spin doctor is needed, just put this stuff out there for everyone to read. The editor of the Clarion-Ledger is black but thinks whites are superior to blacks, the same newspaper uses "trusted negro intellectuals", he uses the N word repeatedly in a column, he says Jackson's government is a system of apartheid, says let the whites leave Jackson because all the good jobs are government jobs and they pay for themselves, and blacks who are friendly to whites "sell us out to white folks". Fit to be a Circuit Judge? I report, you decide.