the governor at the time james vardaman who is an unapologetic white supremacist actually runs on a campaign of white supremacy. believed that the problem with comic leasing was not really the sort of. human rights abuse that it was but rather that he saw it as sort of lining the pockets of the plantation class so he was a white supremacist populist and believe that this sort of state run plantation style prison would instead be a way of sort of socializing african-americans to their place which he saw as manual labor the reform that led to the establishment of parchment was also way it's a crime assist in its intent so as i mentioned james james martin is the person who established. parchment and he used to actually incarcerated people on the grounds of parchment with bloodhounds for sport so if you think about that kind of context in which this place is born there's really no separating white supremacy. of the timeline the so there were about 4 or 5 it's within 3 or 4 days between december 29th and jane where 2nd either on january 2nd in the o.c. issued a statement stating that everything