1.What is House Bill 1020 in your own words?2. Is State Representative Trey Lamar the politician who sponsored the bill,justified in his argumentation to pass House Bill 1020? Why or why not?3. How is HB 1020 reminiscent of American history?4. If HB 1020 passes,what are other repercussions that the country may experience ?How can we resist? Earlier this month, white representatives in the Mississippi House approved a bill to create a new district-thatincludes all of the majority-white neighborhoods in Jackson, a capital city that is 83 percent Black. Thisincludes creating a criminal justice system for the district, overseen by an all-white power base. Under HouseBill 1020, the white conservative chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court would handpick the newdistrict's two supervising judges; its prosecutors and public defenders would be chosen by the state's whiteRepublican attorney general. The zone would be policed by an expanded Capitol Police force, led by the currentwhite police chief, and supervised by the state's white Public Safety commissioner....State Rep. Trey Lamar, the white Republican who sponsored the bill, lives in and represents a majority-whitedistrict more than two hours away from Jackson. (He holds a seat once held by his grandfather, LeonHannaford, whose legacy includes introducing a 1962 bill to tighten residency requirements for collegestudents, which a local paper at the time reported, "would have kept Negro James Meredith from filing suit toenter the University of Mississippi.") In various statements on the House floor and in an op-ed from lastweekend, the legislator has insisted that House Bill 1020, by adding unelected judges to Hinds County's courts,will help clear up lengthy case backlogs, while an expanded Capitol Police force will address a spike in crime inJackson, allowing his constituents to "feel safe when they come to the capital.Calling the bill "racially neutral," he suggested Jackson's Black elected representatives, who overwhelminglyrejected the legislation, have "used race" as some kind of political maneuver, and has even gone so far as toaccuse those same black officials of "incompetence in leadership."...Black House Democrats rightly compared the bill to Mississippi's 1890 Constitution, which was draftedexplicitly to "exclude the Negro" from voting through sinster methods of Black disenfranchisement. But thetoppling of Reconstruction, in Mississippi as elsewhere, was also driven by the white supremacist assumptionof Black incompetence, intellectual unfitness, and innate inadequacy, ideas fabricated to cast Black folks asincapable of leading. For nearly a century, the white racist recollection of Reconstruction would redact andoverwrite history, smearing Black leaders as inherently unfit to hold office, and falsely portraying thereestablishment of absolute white authority as a necessary intervention and saving grace...Mississippi's crime lab has been underfunded, understaffed, and under-equipped for years-contributing tobacklogs in Jackson's courts and all around the state-and yet Lamar's bill does nothing to addresslong-standing appeals from lab staffers to address any of those issues. Overlooking these problems doesn'tseem like a good way to address Jackson's criminal court case backlogs, unless what you were really trying todo was to create yet another entrenched white power system in the state.Mississippi's Capitol Police officers reportedly shot more people in 2022 than any other Mississippi lawenforcement department, with the most recent shooting occurring in December...At a meeting between thepolice chief and public safety officers, Black residents expressed concerns that Capitol officers don't know "howto deal with Black people in Black neighborhoods," and fears that most of the force's officers are from counties"known for their racial prejudice."While the new Capitol District will still be majority Black, it will also include 80 percent of Jackson's whiteresidents, and guess whose property rights will be prioritized over all else, including certain folks' lives?...Justas Lamar wants his constituents to "feel safe when they come to the capital, Black Jacksonians want to feelsafe, too, both from crime and from over-policing. It's a concern the legislator blithely dismissed by stating, "ifyou're not committing crimes in Jackson, you really don't have anything to worry about."That's quite a statement from someone with deep roots in a state notorious for creating the first Black Codes,having the most racial terror lynchings, having a Senate that voted to ship its Black residents to Africa at thelate date of 1922, which created the first White Citizens' Council, which removed the Confederate flag from itsbanner in 2020, and which attempted to ban the teaching about all of those things with a bill that erroneouslycalls it "critical race theory."...Perhaps Mississippi will become the first state to so openly reinstate Jim Crow,extracting Black power in every form it can, yet again. And others will undoubtedly follow.

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1.What is House Bill 1020 in your own words? 2. Is State Representative Trey Lamar the politician who sponsored the bill,justified in his argumentation to pass House Bill 1020? Why or why not? 3. How is HB 1020 reminiscent of American history? 4. If HB 1020 passes,what are other repercussions that the country may experience ?How can we resist?

1.What is House Bill 1020 in your own words? 2. Is State Representative Trey Lamar the politician who sponsored the bill,justified in his argumentation to pass House Bill 1020? Why or why not? 3. How is HB 1020 reminiscent of American history? 4. If HB 1020 passes,what are other repercussions that the country may experience ?How can we resist?