Jackson Jambalaya

J. Kev., "stately" Mr. Taggert is a co-author and business partner with Mr. Nash and considers him a friend. Many more people could learn from the example of Taggert and Nash -- with a little maturity and character, you can disagree with someone wholeheartedly without hating them.

1) KF - I can't read the faded copy of the 2nd letter. I didn't even try page 3.

2) Perhaps Mr Nash can remind us to which political party did the "unlearned judge" (love it!) belong? I expect these omissions from all "news" sources except Fox, and found it curiously missing here ;-)

(sighs)

I keep forgetting how many people just NEED to hate someone.

(withdraws, seeks place where reasoned discourse wins the day)

(slits wrists upon discovering such places no longer exist)

Tell me, ma'am, where anything I said was inaccurate.

Just curious if we readers would have been provided a "language warning" had harsh words, other than those of a racially-insensitive nature, been included in these letters..........

Many will disagree with me (because this position is currently unpopular), but history will correctly attribute the fall of the U.S. to political correctness. It's behavior that's tantamount to seeing something, understanding it, and knowing it's the truth, but simply choosing to deny it out of fear that others might look upon you unfavorably.

Just think of the number of problems you encounter in everyday life that are a direct result of a society who chooses to look the other way.....have to closely guard your possesions at ALL times? Afraid to let your wife/children go to the store at night? The list goes on......

Now think about it as you experience a knee-jerk desire to blast me for being bold enough to say/imply what I have: Are any of my suggestions here untrue?

Do you think Jere Nash ever felt uncomfortable with Sen Robert Byrd
past?

Anderson:

You may find my language distasteful. And Leftists like yourself love to squeal, "Hatemonger!" at the slightest challenge to one of your own. ("Racist!" being the default deflector.)

Rhetoric aside, point to one inaccuracy in my characterization of Mr. Nash. Go ahead.

All right, I zapped them all. Not one of them had anything to do with the subject of the post but instead were about trashing someone who was nice enough to provide this website a copy of the letters despite the fact we are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Don't like it? Oh well, not my problem.

I really don't understand why reasonable people can't disagree in an agreeable manner? It is called, "the loyal opposition" (no matter which end of the political spectrum you fall on) for a reason. Please, give us all a break people and GTFU when you don't agree with someone.

Kingfish,

I would appreciate seeing the posts you removed. Being critical of Jere Nash does not justify removal of the posts. Nash is a big boy and can handle criticism.

Go Cubs!

Judge Cos was appointed to his seat in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, the first judge Kennedy appointed after taking office. His appointment was cleared by the Justice Department.

Cox's nomination for judge was bitterly opposed by the NAACP and by other civil rights groups.

But Judge Cox was supported for the post by Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland.

Judge Cox and Senator Eastland were classmates at the University of Mississippi in the early 1920's. For years, Judge Cox was chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee for Hinds County. Before his appointment, Judge Cox was interviewed by Robert Kennedy then the Attorney General. Judge Cox gave assurances that he could administer the law fairly to all Citizens.

From the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Files Online.

Supposedly the appointment of Cox was the price Eastland charged Kennedy for allowing Thurgood Marshall to be approved by Eastland's judiciary subcomittee.

Not one of them had anything to do with the subject of the post

Fair enough.

I fail to understand why people can't understand the difference between " political correctness" and civilized discourse. Nor can they seem to understand the difference between free speech and being a rude, crude, hateful boor.

It is possible to disagree and disapprove without name calling or using foul language. Intelligent GROWN UPS can do that. Children and idiots cannot learn those skills.

" Kennedy appointed Cox" is the same as " we didn't treat our maids like that" or " that's the way it was back then and not everybody was bad" or " Nathan Bedford Forest" was a great general.
All statements are technically true.
And,it's true that segregation and prejudice were common everywhere.
The difference is that brutal killings and violence not only took place here, there was no moral outrage and those committing or abetting those violent acts not only avoided justice but in some cases ,remained in positions of authority.
Eastland was reelected. There were demands from the Mississippi Bar that Cox be impeached. Forest was part of a vigilante group that killed people, some of whom did nothing deserving of the death penalty. There are still excuses rather than outrage when one of our own behaves badly or even criminally.
The past haunts us only because, unlike the Germans, we haven't completely denounced the bad behavior. Sometimes I wonder if Ted Bundy was a Mississippian, a group would be saying, " Well, he volunteered at a suicide hot line so he wasn't THAT bad".