Jason Johnson: Miss. Voters ‘Facing Massive Apartheid Level Oppression’ Came Out to Give Scott Colom the Win

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JOHNSON: “I've had conversations, I did interviews with the Mississippi Black Voters Action Fund. I talked to several people down there, and I say this without hyperbole, there are people in Mississippi, black people in particular, who have said this affected them more than Obama getting elected. That the idea that a state where, even now -- you don't have to go back to Medgar Evers, even now, where you have racial incidents on Ole Miss's campus and Nolan Wells disappeared, that this state came together, large numbers of white conservative voters and black voters facing massive apartheid-level oppression and voter suppression, managed to get not just a black person into office, but a black man of a specific type and resume and background that is reflective of the modern Mississippi. It's an incredible thing.”