Posted on 09/16/2022 12:47:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Carey Wooten spent nearly seven weeks hunting for safe drinking water for herself, her two children and three dogs after clocking out each day as a Taco Bell manager, so Gov. Tate Reeves’ announcement that the water is clean again in Mississippi’s capital came as welcome news.
Wooten said Friday that the liquid flowing into her kitchen sink still smells like sewage, but not as bad as before, and she’s glad she won’t have to run to distribution sites before their bottled water supplies run out each day.
Jackson had already been under a state health department boil-water notice for a month when torrential rain fell in August, flooding the Pearl River and overwhelming the treatment system. Water pressure abruptly dropped, emptying faucets for days.
How did this happen? Residents, politicians, experts and activists say systemic racism is the root cause.
Jackson’s population has declined since 1980, a decade after the city’s schools began integrating. Many white families left for the suburbs, leaving less revenue to maintain the infrastructure. Middle class Black people then moved out to escape urban decay and rising crime. State and federal spending never made up the difference.
“The legacy of racial zoning, segregation, legalized redlining have ultimately led to the isolation, separation and sequestration of racial minorities into communities (with) diminished tax bases, which has had consequences for the built environment, including infrastructure,” said Marccus Hendricks, an associate professor of urban studies and planning at the University of Maryland.
And when it comes to water scarcity and contamination, they say working-class communities of color are most vulnerable. Jackson’s population is more than 80% Black and the poverty level is 24.5%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Majority-Black Flint, Michigan, has struggled to remove lead from its water since 2014.
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The art to being an inept office holder is having the ability to deflect blame.
It’s not racism, it’s race. Big difference.
Democrats run the city, so they must be racists. Right?
I taught in Jackson Public Schools back in the day. Just to give an example of the corruption:
1. They had a $150,000,000 bond issue to fix the schools. 1/3 of it was gone into shell companies for consulting within months.
2. The superintendent was caught texting a male principal for sex. Both were married.
3. The assistant principal of our school was there only half a year. Why? Because he had to resign as he had paid a male student to suck his toes and was about to be arraigned for sexual abuse of a minor charges.
This was in ONE YEAR. The leadership was all black.
Kenny Stokes is still city council and he’s been in office since the 1980s. Lumumba’s dad used to run the city, now his son does. They’re both radical leftists. Sadly, this water problem is just another scream for federal grants because they’re embezzling the rest.
I knew this story was going to go “there”. When do black folk in charge take responsibility? I saw a picture of the mayor of Jackson and he definitely isn’t stinting on his dudes or hair. I’m sure he gets manicures and buys real nice jewelry also. Looking at the pictures of the council and administrators tells the whole story. There is no racism in this. It is mismanagement. Period!
“ If this were martha’s vineyard all those brown people would’ve been shipped out of town a long time ago.”
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Yep… and used National Guard resources to do so.
And that huge reservoir at the edge of town is named after some white dude!
Is low iq and lack of impulse control also the fault of white people? Asking for a friend.
more like democratism...
It's a drought that's affecting more and more places; not a lack of water but a dearth of conscientious employees and politicians.
Everything politicians touch is doomed to fail. Infrastructure neglect is rampant and will be the end of these places. I'd argue it's already too far gone in most parts of the country and they know it which is why they're so willing to run it into the ground - they know it's not fixable.
Flint 2, similar problem, poor decisions, and same people. Black on Black racism?
“Many white families left for the suburbs, leaving less revenue to maintain the infrastructure.”
White people moving out is racism. In related news:
“Stanford professor’s study finds gentrification disproportionately affects minorities”
https://news.stanford.edu/2020/12/01/gentrification-disproportionately-affects-minorities/
White people moving in is racism.
“Residents, politicians, experts and activists say systemic racism is the root cause.”
Sure they do. Doesn’t make it so.
If by racism you actually mean graft
Meanwhile, my area could be sincerely designated a rain forest.
All. It. Does. Is. Rain.
#GlobalWetting
Free water is stinky.
Cities run by black democrats are almost always corrupt.
Obama and Biden continue to stoke the fires of racism in our country on a daily scale.....and the black community goes right along with them for the most part.
Nasty stuff happening under this administration as they continue to pit parties, races, communities and pretty much everything against the other.
Were these unpaid bills for water they couldn’t use?
So 40 years of doing nothing to solve problems, problems that were solved in every other city in the U.S. but can’t be solved in Mississippi. I would look to who has not been able to get anything accomplished and just maybe they are the problem.
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