Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant uses racist code language to keep a Black man from the U.S. Senate

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Cirilo Manego III
January 9, 2020
Mississippi is one of those states that just cannot get out of its own way. According to a U.S. News 2018 and 2019 reports, Mississippi overall was ranked 48 out of 50 states in the union. In 2017, however, Mississippi was ranked 49 of 50. Guess who has been running the state over the course of this timeframe? Republicans. In fact, it has been nearly a decade of Republicans...