Mississippi Law Prohibits Same-Sex Partner Of Man Killed In Hate Crime To Be Named In Lawsuit

By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World

James C. Anderson, the man killed in a violent hate crime in Jackson, MS, allegedly by white teens who were out to “f— with some niggers,” is not the only person involved facing discrimination.

James Bradfield, Mr. Anderson’s partner of 17 years, is unable to be named as a plaintiff in the lawsuit being brought by the family against the seven teenagers named as defendants because “under Mississippi law, same-sex partners have no claim in civil actions like this,” said Mr. Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

According to Dees, Mr. Anderson’s sexual orientation did not play a factor in his beating or murder; even though crimes against him are apparently continuing even in death.

Along with a laundry list of discriminatory laws that remain on the books, Mississippi is one of the many states that continues to defines marriage strictly as a union between one man and one woman.

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Ron

Why Black American who becomes millionaires and billioniares do not open up companies, corporations, and other businessiness in the Black communtiies across the country to help combat the high raise of unemployment in the communities? Plus, most of them who becomes rich do to their talent end up married to a White woman or man that ends up with all the money and keep suppressing the Black people. The only race that don’t help one another because they wants some other race to like them which will never happen ever. So true, union we stand divided we fall. How can we as a race learn to control our minds and stop letting television influence it for the wrong choices?