Posted on 09/01/2022 8:43:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Democratic mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, promised to make the capital “the most radical city on the planet” during his 2017 campaign, but so far he’s been unable to even solve even the city’s basic infrastructure problems and the city’s running water is now unsafe to drink.
He campaigned on plans to introduce universal basic income and alternatives to policing, to replace vacant lots with urban farms and to resolve chronic issues with the city’s water and roads in order to break the “cycles of humiliation” he said black residents experience in Jackson, the most heavily black large city in the U.S. Instead, the city’s water problems have worsened, and Republican Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency Tuesday because running water is not reliably available nor safe for consumption.
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Providing an emergency briefing tonight at 7:00 PM, alongside our Department of Health and Emergency Management Agency, on today’s failure of our state capital’s water system and the resources that the state is mobilizing to respond.
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The city-run O.B. Curtis Water Plant has been plagued with issues for years and has issued numerous boil water notices, but recent flooding impeded its ability to offer reliable running water to 180,000 Jackson residents. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) will be distributing water from tanker trucks at various points throughout the city, Lumumba told CNN.
“I wouldn’t call us the most radical city to date,” Lumumba told Politico in 2021 amid a separate city water crisis.
Lumumba did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Has there been a successful black run city, anywhere, ever???
I’ll let you know if I find one..............😉
Let them drink wine.
In a way, it’s like some mental defective with one six-sided die, trying to roll a 7. He rolls over and over again. Never a 7. But he keeps on trying. Because this time it will be different.
Indeed, evoking Einstein's posit that the definition of insanity is repeating a process while expecting different results.
Good points.
property-owners = stake-holders
males = daddies (not mommies)
A city with no water is pretty radical.
adjective
1.
(especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.
Bkmk
Mississippi just got handed a way to pay for that water fix...
MS just said it'll be the first state to forgive student loan debt.
“Chokwe Antar Lumumba”
It’s a common WASP name doncha’ know.
“Maybe Seattle well be next..”
Uh, there’s something fundamentally different about Seattle and it’s not just the availability of fresh water.
“The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) will be distributing water from tanker trucks at various points throughout the city, Lumumba told CNN.”
Just like they do in 3rd world countries.
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I believe that third world countries also view failure to deliver potable water as a failure.
You know! as in Flint, Michigan
he has just found a way to keep illegal aliens, homeless people, and ANTFA out of his city. Small price to pay for the the benefits obtained. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento should try it. Sacramento would have the benefits of keeps politicians out also.
You get what you vote for, and Stupid ought to hurt.
Live it up, Jackson residents!
“ They are a black separatist movement that wants its own country in the SE US.”
I’m tempted to say give it to them.
Not like it would last more than a year or so.
Then we’d be rid of them.
L
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