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Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time something like this has happened in Madison county. It also happened to a friend of mine.

how come the Junior High Free Press is not all over this.. Oh, yeah, it's in Madison...might as well be on Uranus...oops, won't go there.

Let's also remember that Madison is where the City Council passed an ordinance to mandate a prison sentence of up to three months for parking on the curb because "there are too many Hinds County license plates here."

And while I don't know about David Archie one way or the other, he's absolutely right that the sheriff's department up there practices racial profiling--I've heard too many credible stories about it to believe otherwise.

Then why hasn't the ACLU filed a lawsuit?

There is a comment string now appearing over on the Fondren Bugle. But it is going to get nasty before it gets over.....

Anonymous, have you ever tried to put together a racial profiling lawsuit? Last weekend I met the guy who headed up the ACLU's successful racial profiling lawsuit in Baltimore. The evidence was obvious from day one, but it took ten years of his life to win the suit because in order to win a racial profiling lawsuit, you have to effectively prove intent.

In Madison, where the sheriff's department tends to be informal and evidence is harder to come by, winning a racial profiling lawsuit would be even more difficult.

Not that I would bet against the Mississippi ACLU's lawyers if they tried, mind you--we've got a kick-butt legal team over here.

I suppose I'd be more inclined Tom to believe the local ACLU will actually take action beyond words if the effort in Madison County was more, or at least appeared more, indigenous.

Until David Archie is no longer leading the effort as the de facto mouthpiece, by design or due to a true paucity of Madison County grass-roots leadership, call me highly skeptical that this isn't anything more than the crowd that chased the Flora Police Chief out of town thinking they possess some kind of real political power on a broader scale beyond the confines of the Flora city limits.

I'm sorry, but Archie's rehearesed rejoinder that he's involved because he was born in Madison County smacks more of opportunism by a frustrated wannabe politician than that of a genuine native son returning to lead his people out of Egypt.

Brent Cox's calling of Kim Wade's drive-time program to troll for protesters in advance of the Canton "march" was not only transparent it was a major tactical mistake that not only telegraphed a position of weakness and but also inside knowledge on Cox's part, meaning within the ACLU, that the "march" faced an acute shortage of committed protestors.

Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton tactics won't get the job done Tom. I'm somewhat perplexed you haven't yet reached that conclusion.

Brent's approach of calling Kim Wade and telling people about the march makes perfect sense to me--I spread word about events (those I'm involved in helping to coordinate, those I'm not) all the time, and I know Brent has been doing a lot of great work on the radio lately. Since he's public education coordinator, that's part of what he does.

I don't know much about David Archie or his core group, and I haven't attended an event organized by David Archie yet, so I can't speak to any of that. I've met him and he seems like a really charismatic guy, but my concerns re: racial profiling in Madison County don't really have anything to do with him either way. I've been hearing about the problem for years, from people I know and trust.

Obviously my saying that is not going to persuade skeptics, and I recognize this, but let's not get wrapped up in a discussion about David Archie. It's a free country; he can organize an event to protest anything he likes. The key question is not "What should David Archie do?" It's "What should I do?"

The key question is not "What should David Archie do?" It's "What should I do?"

Spare us the obvious Tom.

Mind your own business, Head. Nobody takes you seriously anymore now that you've turned into the world's palest black nationalist.