Tell them to call Papa Joe. Papa Joe fixes everything.
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Jackson MS meets Flint MI, any similarity as to who is in the city government?
Don’t worry! at least everyone’s pensions are safe! Screw the infrastructure.
30 years of kicking the can by deferring maintenance. “Progressives” rarely face consequences of their actions.
I bet houses are cheap there now. Although you probably can’t get house insurance without an active fire hydrant nearby.
Bypass the treatment and push non-potable water to at least get fire flow and toilets working.
Then get the treatment process back online.
Then start flushing & disinfecting, block by block.
Gonna be a while. Gonna need someone who knows wth they’re doing.
FWIW, the Jackson Jambalaya blog is worthwhile for those who want to get some idea of what the media is NOT saying about the city.
Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Actual, or just spiritual, relative of Patrice Lumumba, of (Belgian) Congo?
I wish this were merely entertaining.
Walt Wicks blames it on whitey for leaving the crime and squalor. Shame on whitey for not staying and being pulled down into the filth and crime.
“White flight in the 70s and 80s created a hyperBlack Jackson and now they want it back, but we not going so they trying to kill us off slow and sho’. They just hit fast forward with this flood tbh.”
Go to virtually any former colony of any European nation anywhere and see that it is a ruined shadow of what it once was. There is a reason for that. Particularly in Africa.
Somebody name one that has prospered in economy, freedom and lawfulness since its independence.
There is a common thread to all these failures and it isn’t whitey.