Mississippi Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom has flipped Forrest County, a once reliably Republican County named for Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.
With 97% of votes counted in Forrest County, Colom led Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by 54%-44% as of Thursday, Nov. 5. That represents a 29-point swing toward Democrats in a county that Donald Trump carried in 2024 by a 58%-40% margin.
Colom, who currently has a narrow lead among votes counted, would be the first Black U.S. senator from Mississippi since 1881 during the Reconstruction era.
Very true, though Germans do struggle with overcoming their past and can’t seem to reconcile the facts that exterminating Jews was wrong yet supporting Zionists in exterminating the Palestinians is also wrong.
The US was founded on genocide and slavery and both are treated as something you can cover in a couple chapters of 5th grade history without ever doing any real examination of the culture that was built from this.
Kinda varies on where you’re from, I kinda had wounded knee drilled into me.
Probably true and I do remember reading about “the trail of tears” but what is missing seems to be any real attempt to connect the past to the present. Red hat parents would be protesting and taking their kids out of school if you tried to frame it as we may be the bad guys. Then, and now…
Agreed on the connection thing, just to go back to my schooling my teacher had a great uncle or some such whos parents apparently lived at the Wounded Knee reservation though were lucky enough to have been away. That’s only a couple degrees of separation and I could still witness the pain via my teacher since her uncle apparently talked about what he came back to quite a bit. That’s just using a teacher as well, I have at least one ancestoral branch who were on the East Coast before even James Town so as you can imagine I can dig up quite a few stories that end with “and then our native allies were butchered”.