{"id":135,"date":"2026-11-12T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/?p=135"},"modified":"2026-11-13T22:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T22:39:26","slug":"a-new-meaning-for-mississippi-goddamn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/2026\/11\/12\/a-new-meaning-for-mississippi-goddamn\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Meaning for Mississippi Goddamn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alabama&#8217;s gotten me so upset<\/em><br>\n<em>Tennessee made me lose my rest<\/em><br>\n<em>And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nine Simone&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/the-story-behind-nina-simones-protest-song-mississippi-goddam\/16651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Mississippi Goddamn&#8221;<\/a> has a new meaning now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-137 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScottColom-1024x444.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScottColom-1024x444.png 1024w, https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScottColom-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScottColom-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScottColom-520x225.png 520w, https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScottColom.png 1315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\"><\/p>\n<p>While the gains we made during this election were impressive, Scott Colom, Angie Nixon, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ginafortexas.com\/\">Gina Hinojosa<\/a> were the closest to my heart and impressed me the most. My folks are from the Geechee corridor of the SE corner of Georgia\/NE corner of Florida, and I have relatives in Mississippi and Texas. I lived in Texas for many years, and Mississippi is a place I know well. <a href=\"https:\/\/angienixon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Now for Angie 2028!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qobuz.com\/us-en\/album\/in-concert-nina-simone\/mqde6j2xj5fic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first performed and recorded<\/a> &#8220;Mississippi Goddamn&#8221; at Carnegie Hall in 1964.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qobuz.com\/us-en\/album\/in-concert-nina-simone\/mqde6j2xj5fic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-144\" src=\"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/NineSimoneLive1964-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nine Simone Live 1964\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/NineSimoneLive1964-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/NineSimoneLive1964-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/NineSimoneLive1964.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama&#8217;s gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn Nine Simone&#8217;s &#8220;Mississippi Goddamn&#8221; has a new meaning now&#8230; While the gains we made during this election were impressive, Scott Colom, Angie Nixon, and Gina Hinojosa were the closest to my heart and impressed me the most. My<em class=\"excrpt-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/2026\/11\/12\/a-new-meaning-for-mississippi-goddamn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A New Meaning for Mississippi Goddamn<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylcoward.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}