Greenwood Blacks Outraged at White Councilman Referring to Black Senator as ‘Ole Nigger’

By: F. Finley McRae, BlackAmericaWeb.com

Blacks in the small, Mississippi Delta city of Greenwood are seething over a white city councilman's e-mail that referred to a black political leader, who is highly respected statewide, as an "ole nigger."

For many blacks, the e-mail, containing an illogical message about council president David Jordan, 74, who also holds a state senate seat, is a reminder that the vaunted "New South," romanticized by pundits nationwide, may well be a distant dream and perhaps even a myth.

Since Sunday, when the e-mail -- exposed by one of the 15 whites who received it -- and its subsequent furor began attracting statewide national media attention, Greenwood and Leflore County, where it sits, has been bombarded by reactions in the city's newspapers and its talk radio stations.

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