July 26, 2026 - Week in Review

A bit slower of a week, but after listening to the outstanding podcast "Weird Little Men" – part of the Cool Zone Media ecosystem – that covered the racist shitbag, Byron de la Beckwith (the fucker that shot Medgar Evers in 1963) that really piqued my interest in the singularity that caused the escalation of outrages in the run up to the Civil Rights Act, that singularity? The Brown v. Board of Education that ended legally blessed segregation in education.

As part of this listening/researching I went down the rabbit hole on the deep south, citizen's councils, the formal Sovereignty Commission, and the rest of the fuckery. This kicked off a series that will play out for the next week and a half, but the first up in this series (the series is "The Backlash")

Monday, July 20: The Fulcrum - where I begin the journey that I described above:

The Fulcrum

In 1954 Mississippi built a segregationist club so extreme even its own founders told one guy to tone it down. Then the state gave him a job application for a spy agency. This is how a Supreme Court ruling armed both sides of a war.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

Fun fact: Mississippi didn't have a formal Klan presence until 1963. Why? Because they didn't need the anonymity to harass their black citizens.

Wednesday, July 22: The Uptown Klan - As I just said, the Klan didn't need a toehold in Mississippi. The legislature, and the governor was all in on all the most egregious bits.

The Uptown Klan

Economic terrorism with a rotary club newsletter: how Mississippi’s ‘moderate’ segregationists built the farm system for a murder.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

Thursday, July 23 - The digging I did around the direct results of the Brown v. Board decision, I stumbled on the troubling tendency of the Progressives to blur the concerns of African Americans claiming that their progressive policies will address the inequities of Black Americans, something that rings hollow in the African American communities. I go back to the early 20th Century titan of Progressive policy successes, Woodrow Wilson, who was also a complete fucking racist turd.

The Vague Progressive: Wilson, Race, and the Cost of Breathing Your Own Exhaust

Woodrow Wilson promised Black America a seat at the table, then had his cabinet quietly move the table to a different room. A hundred years later, progressives are still doing the “quietly move the room” trick — they’ve just gotten better at calling it strategy instead of segregation.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

Act IV leads off with this:

Which brings us to now, and to a question worth asking without cheap-shotting anyone: does today's economically-focused progressive coalition risk running the same play — offering class-neutral, technocratic language as a substitute for a harder conversation about race, on the theory that lifting the economic floor will quietly lift the racial one along with it?

Do read it, and check your priors.

Friday, July 24: Mississippi's egregious policies and agencies go wide as Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama join the bandwagon

The Franchise: How Mississippi’s Spy Agency Got Copied Statewide

Mississippi built a taxpayer-funded spy agency to crush the civil rights movement, then watched Louisiana and Alabama copy the homework. Georgia skipped the espionage and just staged a fake listening tour instead. Same con, three costumes.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

Bonus: From The Shitpost Dude - my stealthy Substack experiment - the research for the bad shit emanating from Brown v. Board veered into the radical leftists of the 60's and 70's (The Weathermen and The Plack Panther Party) and the insanity of all the hijackings.

The Hijackings got so numerous that the FBI considered building a "Fake" Havana Airport in south Florida to trick the hijackers to land in the US. It never got built, but damn, isn't that a fun idea...

Man, They Almost Built a Fake Cuba

So many hijackers kept demanding “take me to Cuba” that the feds reportedly considered building a fake Havana airport in Florida just to trick them. They never built it. Should’ve.

The Dude ShitpostsJeffery Lebowski

The week ahead: We have three more episodes on the "Backlash" series in the can:

• the fuckery of Judge Leander Perez in Louisiana,
• then we shift to how the IRS was the instrument of de-segregation far more than the court decisions,
• and finally the left-wing violence of the aforementioned Weathermen and Black Panthers, and how they sprung forth from the Civil Rights backlash, and from Vietnam. The commonality though was the violence that ensued.

I will be back with you next week for the summary