Scott Colom triumphs in the Mississippi Delta

Nov 14, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Whatever else it is, may have deteriorated to, America is still exceptional. There is senator-elect Scott Colom. A Black man now a senator from a state that showed a horrified world that disfigured side of America: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner mauled, maimed, and murdered. Three freedom riders buried in the savage marshes of the Mississippi Delta. It was a killing ground over there in Neshoba County in 1964. In 2026, 62 years later, a dark meteor of light streaks across a benighted stretch of earth sowed with the blood of martyrs both Black and White, Jewish and courageous. It’s why I keep saying, despite the racists, segregationists, and anti-abolitionists, America is still exceptional.

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Robert Kennedy had it right in the aftermath of the assassination of that great American: Martin Luther King, a preacher and a healer; a gamechanger and an includer. And for that America killed him. Said RFK: “Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man, and to make gentle the life of this world”. It was April, 1968 and the death of Dr. King. It is November 2026, 58 years later, and the savageness has begun to pale, started to ease, with a new age determined to find its place. Will it hold? Can it hold? If the restraints of power, limited as they are, can be wrapped around the hands and neck of Donald Trump, then there is ground for hope that some sliver of that gentleness may take hold. Only the possibilities of America could make a Black American soar to its presidency, and another Black man rise to the heights in what was formerly, maybe still is, Ku Klux Klan Mississippi. The arc of justice does right itself, if only momentarily.