After poll taxes and literacy tests ended, federal leaders found ways to implement new criminal statutes that would disproportionately target and criminalize Black men, including by hyping up stories of Black crime and waging a "drug war." •22
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GOP strategist Ken Phillips in 1969: "Nixon’s successful presidential election campaign could point the way toward...a new Republican majority, if Republicans continued to campaign primarily on...racial issues, using coded antiblack rhetoric." •23
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Despite saying systemic racism is not real, Gov. Reeves is no stranger to it. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Order, a fraternity known for wearing blackface, hurling racial epithets at Black students & holding Confederate-themed balls. •26
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Of course. Gov. Reeves also declared Confederate Heritage Month in April 2020, when 70% of Mississippi's COVID-19 victims were Black, and again in 2021.

In 2013, he spoke at a neo-Confederate gathering in Vicksburg. •27
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