A few months ago we announced that we were starting an investigation into what appears to be a conspiracy working to stop Mayor Zach Patterson or any progress being made within the black community by the Enterprise-Journal and a few influential business owners. Today we have our smoking gun.
Within the past several months, the Mississippi-Tribune has pointed out the racism of the Enterprise-Journal. We’ve written articles about that trashy, slanderous “My Two Cents” column and those shameful, despicable blog postings on their website.
If that wasn’t enough to prove our case, time after time, we’ve exposed spins they’ve placed on stories as well as intentional omissions in order to deceive its readers, such as: the omission of the Attorney General’s opinion stating that McComb selectmen could not circumvent the process by which the mayor is responsible for bringing forth names to be considered for appointments, and also the intentional omission of testimony provided by Higgins Middle School’s parent-of-the-year, Jacqueline Lumpkin, during the hearings of Nick Jenkins, who was fired by the McComb School District.
Now we have our smoking gun. Wyatt Emmerich, owner of the Enterprise-Journal and a network of newspapers throughout the state, recently gave an interview to the Northside Sun which was reprinted in the Jackson Free Press. The article is entitled, “Wyatt Emmerich Hates to Talk Race, But If He Has To…”. This article stirred up a lot of talk during Jackson’s mayoral election, because during the interview Emmerich endorsed mayoral candidate Marshan Crisler. During the interview Emmerich decided to “let it all hang out” when questioned about race relations in Mississippi; his bluntly spoken words offended most and infuriated a few of those who read the piece.
Many of you may still remember the “community schools” controversy that took place here nearly two years ago. In the article Emmerich suggest that the Jackson Public School board should guarantee a 50-50 white-black ratio all the way through to high school graduation. Emmerich almost goes into detail in the article on how to accomplish this. In a sense this was one of the same requests being made by those running the McComb School District during the time of the community schools proposal. I would also like to remind you that during this period Charles Dunigan, former editor for the Enterprise-Journal, was serving as the school board president.
We have provided for you in this issue a copy of that article to read for yourself and hopefully you’ll be able to connect the dots and see the conspiracy to not only control our schools, but the Emmerich Enterprise would also like to pick our leadership for us in the black community. To this we should say, “No”. I was happy to read the comments by Jackson citizens contesting this racist ideology. We have also provided you with a reprint of those readers’ comments in this week’s issue.
