<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Pam M McKelvy]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you wanna fly, you have to give up shit that weighs you down. ~Toni Morrison ]]></description><link>https://pammckelvyhamner658460.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8rvJ!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae406841-f916-400d-9085-5df7ed080dcc_640x760.png</url><title>Pam M McKelvy</title><link>https://pammckelvyhamner658460.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:18:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://pammckelvyhamner658460.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Pam McKelvy Hamner]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[pammckelvyhamner658460@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[pammckelvyhamner658460@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Pam M McKelvy]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Pam M McKelvy]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[pammckelvyhamner658460@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[pammckelvyhamner658460@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Pam M McKelvy]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[And they asked me why I call them kkkonfederates.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clearly, Republicans are not about democracy but rather dominance, ruling over everything but not representing everyone.]]></description><link>https://pammckelvyhamner658460.substack.com/p/and-they-asked-me-why-i-call-them</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://pammckelvyhamner658460.substack.com/p/and-they-asked-me-why-i-call-them</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pam M McKelvy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 05:56:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8rvJ!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae406841-f916-400d-9085-5df7ed080dcc_640x760.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Clearly, Republicans are not about democracy but rather dominance, ruling over everything but not representing everyone.</p><p>Last time I checked, elected officials were supposed to serve all the people, not just the ones in their political party.</p><p>This MAGA kkkrewe is overt with its disdain of Black people, women, minorities &amp; the LBGTQ communities. It is clear, they believe their rights are more important than the rest of us. </p><p>Mississippi is the blue print for MAGA.</p><p>When slavery was outlawed and labor wasn&#8217;t absolutely free, the state economy collapsed. </p><p>During Reconstruction, the progress made by the newly freed Black Americans enraged poor white people &amp; threatened the stability of the ruling class.</p><p>Reconstruction was then dismantled by the extreme lynchings and murders of Black citizens across the state. Mississippi had the highest number of lynchings per capita higher than Texas. Texas has 10 times the population of Mississippi.</p><p>The Daughters of the Confederacy whitewashed and revisioned the Civil War. </p><p>The Civil War was about slavery but the McGraw Hill Company printed the overwhelming majority of books in public schools that changed the narrative about slavery in the war that killed more Americans than all our other wars combined.</p><p>Truth:  The Confederacy was broke before the war, primarily because of mismanagement of funds from the opulent lifestyles of the Planter Class. </p><p>The Southern Planter Class accrued deeper debt once it lost $2.7 billion in enslaved human capital.</p><p>150 years later, Mississippi recieves nearly half of its state budget from the federal government, yet refuses subsidizing healthcare with federal money because it will help Black and poor Mississippians.</p><p>The only constitutional convention ever held in MS was in 1890. It was called to quote James K. Vardamen, future governor and U.S. Senator..</p><p>&#8220;There is no use to equivocate or lie about the matter&#8230;Mississippi&#8217;s constitutional convention of 1890 was held for no other purpose than to eliminate the nigger from politics.&#8221;</p><p>Several delegates are on record with the same sentiment. This is the convention where illegal poll taxes, tests and other hurdles to voting were passed.</p><p>The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson describes the Mississippi Plan allowing white registrars to reduce Black voter registration by 88% almost immediately.</p><p>And again, the narratives change language but the patterns and their purpose remain unchanged.</p><p>Mississippi will forever remain a lost cause as long as ideology like this prevails.</p><p>Remember, the Supreme Court ruled on the Dred Scott decision (1857, 7-2)and Plessy vs Ferguson (1892 7-1).</p><p>Chief Justice John Roberts&#8217; is a Planter Class Federalist. The election of Barrack Hussein Obama defies his belief in white superiority. </p><p>His life long dream was to take America back to the time when slave owning white men held all the purse strings and power to government, eternally.</p><p>Republicans like Mississippi Senator Chris McDaniel can&#8217;t compete on an equal playing field.</p><p>They always need the game to be designed in their favor with the odds likely producing victories.</p><p>What&#8217;s that saying&#8230;if you&#8217;re not cheating, you&#8217;re not trying.</p><p>It&#8217;s the same playbookkk after Reconstruction we&#8217;re seeing currently.</p><p>Just like Sinny Hides Smith said; if her constituents invited her to a lynching, she&#8217;d be on the front row.</p><p>And btw, Sinny is a direct blood descendant of slave owning Confederates.</p><p>So her joking about lynchings reveals her insensitivity and ignorance simultaneously.</p><p>But irony always evades them and hypocrisy never shames them.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what I know for sure; Republicans can pass unjust laws, disenfranchise me and take away my civil rights.</p><p>However, Republicans never had the power to take away my humanity.</p><p>I will remain human. I will walk in the light. I will love all mankind. I will be at peace. I will seek knowledge and gain wisdom. I will remain free of hate. I will be kind. I will lead with gratitude. I will release fear. I will embrace freedom. I will remain engaged with those who love God in action beyond words.</p><p>The Bible quotes historical Jesus, not the one in Pulp Fiction, as saying &#8220;Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar&#8217;s, and to God the things that are God&#8217;s.&#8221; (Matthew 22:21)</p><p>I belong to God.</p><p>Time reveals all truth.</p><p>My inheritance is in the unseen God &amp; nothing can separate me from it.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>