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Roger Crowder , a black Mississippi State University agriculture specialist , lost the 2003 Republican runoff for agriculture commissioner by just hundreds of votes : a lot of whites clearly voted for him , and Gov.Haley Barbour argues that the vote split on regional , not racial lines . He is able to see True Son 's perspective on the violent nature of whites , and he is honest about the mistakes he has committed as a military leader . After rejecting an athletic scholarship because of the preferential treatment of whites , he joined Martin Luther King Jr. ' s Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) as an undergraduate . " The Haunted Oak , " written and publsihed in 1900 , could have been based on one of the 105 lynchings that occurred that year , but it was inspired in Washington , D.C ., by a story that Dunbar heard an old black man relate concerning his nephew in Alabama who bad been hanged on an oak tree by a mob of whites after having been falsely accused of " a grave crime . A smaller majority of whites , 57 percent , said they would favor such a policy and , while there was no specific category for Hispanics and Asians , 63 percent of nonwhites said they , too , would favor it .