Louisiana Voice

If you read nothing else ever posted on this blog, I want you to read Robet Mann’s The party of “Shut up, boy” post of today.

Read it. Then go back and read it again. And again. Slowly. Digest it. Let his words sink in and maybe, just maybe you’ll feel a twinge of the shame and outrage that he has expressed so well.

Mann is at his articulate best with this column and it exposes this state and this legislature (one legislator in particular) for becoming—and remaining—the example of everything we should abhor in elected officials.

And let’s lay the blame where it belongs: The Repugnantcan Party.

Don’t believe me? Just listen to the nauseating TV ads of the Repugnantcan candidates from State Supreme Court to Congress and the Senate. They’re all doing their dead-level best to be a better Trump-whore than their opponents.

When, for example, have you heard a candidate for judge emphasize his or her ability to faithfully follow the rule of law? All I’m hearing is who is the most conservative, the most loyal Repugnantcan. That’s not how a candidate for judge should campaign. They’re supposed to be impartial, immune to party politics. But not, apparently, in Louisiana.

Here is a photo of the subject of Mann’s wrath and indignation:

Remember this face. It is the face of the typical Republican white supremacist, the champion of the white nationalist redneck, the kind of person who runs on the coattails of the Pedophile-in-Chief—and is proud to do so. Think about that for a moment. They have hitched their career to a convicted rapist and an accused child sex abuser. Can it possibly sink any lower than that?

This is State Sen. John C “Jay” Morris III (R-West Monroe).

And remember, it is not Bob Mann but Morris who has exposed himself to being a bigot, a racist, a man who would, in the year 2026, tell the Black executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party during a committee hearing on congressional redistricting to “Shut up, Boy.”

That is just about as Jim Crow as you can get. Nothing subtle about the good senator who authored the bill to strip an elected clerk of court in New Orleans of the office he’d just won. A detractor pointed out to LouisianaVoice recently that Calvin Duncan was a convicted felon who’d served hard time in Angola. True. But what that person who, like Morris, is obviously blinded by his own bigotry, failed to point out is that Duncan had been wrongly convicted by a corrupt prosecutor who withheld exculpatory evidence and that he had been 100 percent exonerated—after more than three decades behind bars, after which he pursued and obtained a law degree.

(Of course, the person who pointed that out is of a somewhat limited vocabulary. He repeatedly employs the term “libtard commie” in his diatribes even though he would be hard-pressed to accurately define a communist of communism—and he certainly cannot explain the difference between socialism and communism.)

But I digress. Bob Mann is dead right in his critique of Louisiana’s elected officials who are perfectly content with the state ranking at the bottom of every list of accomplishments so long as the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, fossil fuel and other special interest money keeps feeding their campaigns.

If Morris’s sorry rebuke does not enrage you, embarrass you, make you cringe, then by God, you’re just as much a part of the problem as Morris or any mouth-breathing KKK member.