‘It’s what I think’: Mississippi official doubles down on racist comments after Confederate statue vote

USA Today

JACKSON, Miss. – Calls are increasing for a white Mississippi elected official to either step down as supervisor board president or resign entirely amid racist remarks he made to a local newspaper after voting against relocating a Confederate monument in front of the county courthouse.

The official is not only rejecting those calls, but doubling down on his stance. 

“I’m not going to stand and run from it; hell, it’s what I think,” Lowndes County Supervisor Harry Sanders said Tuesday.