Posted on 02/25/2014 4:35:38 PM PST by WXRGina
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has died. He was admitted to St. Dominic Hospital Tuesday morning with chest pains and apparently died there.
We don't have many details, but Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham Stewart has confirmed his death.
Lumumba won the Mayor's office in June 4, 2013, pulling 86% of the vote and defeating independent candidates Francis P. Smith, Jr. , Richard C. Williams and Cornelius Griggs.
Mayor Lumumba was born August 2, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. He is the second of eight children born to Lucien and Priscilla Francis Taliaferro.
Mayor Lumumba earned his Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
He later finished first in his law school freshman class before graduating cum laude from Wayne State University Law School.
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Hope the next black mayor of Jackson will be a Conservative Christian man.
Well I can hope, eh?
The city needs some good leadership, and with its demographics, there won't be a white mayor any time soon.
It's sad to think about what's happening to all those inner-city little black guys and gals, when all the adult (at least physically) leadership examples they get to see are either total lefty losers or ferals.
will they mention is racism?
He’s in purgatory with Chavez.
The black racist won with 86% of the vote, there is zero chance a Christian conservative man will win
Posted on June 5, 2013 Chokwe Lumumba, Ex-Black Nationalist...
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No, but he’s still voting Democrat.
“Thought I was reading about some African country for a second.”
Jackson, MS IS an African country.
RTS ....that now seminary past 45 years was my paternal family homestead for 4 decades prior to RTS buying it from my widowed grandmother in 1966 or so
I grew up down the boulevard behind Mynelle Gardens
We moved to almost Eastover in 1972 when things started going south...
My grandmother took the money and moved to Clinton which is now fixing to go black too looks like
Those 20 acres were paradise to me....there was a barn...horses...
A swimming hole
That little white building in the back was my grandfathers office and the old red brick tiny building partially underground was our tack room...
My grandfather died on a June morning in 1962 on what was the long screen porch on the east side facing towards Jackson....
Reading the clarion ledger....it was a Hedermann paper then.....lucky strike in one hand and and coffee in the other
It was considered a mansion in those days..
Maybe 6000 sq feet....small compared to today’s largesse
The cook...Hannah...old black woman who raised all the kids and grandkids
And made excellent dressing...
Found him....
She loathed going back on that porch after that.....spooked her.....me too frankly.....at night..
.stairs creaking.....I’d run to my grandmas bed..
Where she’d comfort me I had nothing to fear from grandaddy anyhow
He was a stern self made man who didn’t suffer fools gladly...pretty tough hewn
Folks had staff then..
And no....it was not like The Help..
I knew them too....that daughter is a lying shrew writing about stuff happened way before her time....she is a libtard mad at mommy and daddy ...who.. I duck hunted with
Anyhow..
Just sharing.... I still go by there when in Jackson..I wonder how long they can hold out
Nodding. I should have known. :D
Beautiful post.
I just did a search to try and find some pictures of the campus. I didn’t find much, but I guess it must be very altered from the days when it was your family’s homestead.
You’ve written the most moving post I’ve read all week. Beautiful.
So many of us have similar stories about once eden-like areas that have become dangerous and unlivable. My dad told stories like that about his childhood home in Indiana.
thank you very much I’m getting sentimental in my old age and I’m very long winded just ask my darling wife
Shcuks....going by his name, I’d have guessed Cajun.
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