Ghosts of Confederate Mississippi endure in the Capitol
(WorldNews Mexico)

While answering phones in the Mississippi congressional office where he worked, Ty James was called the n-word by someone on the other end of the line. It was 2017 and marked the second time he had been called that. Those kinds of experiences have helped convince James, a native Mississippian and African American who is press secretary for Rep. Bennie Thompson, that the two statues representing the state in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection shouldn’t be devoted to men who were Confederates and white supremacists. “For me, he symbolizes racism and hate,” James said, referring to Jefferson Davis. The other statue, of James Z. George, represents the...