Past time for slavery, in all its permutations, to end
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Jan 15, 2020
2 minutes
Last week, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld Willie Nash's sentence: 12 years for possession.
Of a cellphone.
Read it twice, if you want. It won't make any more sense the second time around.
Nash, it should go without saying, is African American. And his victimization by Mississippi "justice" lends a certain pungent perspective to an event that occurred simultaneously.
Meaning the
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