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Another misuse of the ‘lynching metaphor
By TKALICH@GWCOMMONWEALTH.COM
Wed,05/16/18-2:56PM , 193 Reads
Add Camille Cosby to the growing list of African-Americans who have misused the “lynching” metaphor to describe their or their family members’ troubles.

Recently, the wife of Bill Cosby compared his trial and conviction to the real lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi 63 years ago.
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Another case to raise the fuel tax
By TKALICH@GWCOMMONWEALTH.COM
Sun,05/13/18-2:12AM , 160 Reads
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant made a laughable argument recently in a supposedly “bipartisan” op-ed column he co-wrote with his Louisiana counterpart, John Bel Edwards. It went something like this:
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A newspaper’s guilt trip
By TKALICH@GWCOMMONWEALTH.COM
Thu,05/10/18-3:01PM , 66 Reads
The editors of the Montgomery Advertiser probably thought they were being brave and bold when they took the unusual step of publishing a front-page editorial apology for that newspaper’s coverage of lynchings in the Alabama capital city a century ago.
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Don’t restrict books in prison
By TKALICH@GWCOMMONWEALTH.COM
Wed,05/09/18-2:52PM , 132 Reads
If the Mississippi Department of Corrections has a good reason for restricting inmates’ access to free books, it should provide it.

If not, it seems like an arbitrary decision that runs counter to what should be a priority of the prison system — to rehabilitate those who are incarcerated.
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