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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bull!
The uncollected water bills was a temporary glitch that needs to be fixed, I should have underlined ‘uncollected’
I would like to see the number of family members on the Administrative staff, how many expensive art works, the travel budget, etc before I would blame it on a temporary cash flow problem
THAT may be the ONLY truthful statement in the whole story.
Racism. It’s easier to pronounce than corruption.
PING racism, corruption
They need to move to Martha’s Vineyard.
Plenty of water and residents waiting with open arms.
Everything is racism. How original. How is this going to solve the water problem.
Oh of course these jackasses would play the race and redlining card.
Screw them.
They vote for race hustling poverty pimps who do nothing to build anything or help in any meaningful ways .
Lubumba didn’t have enough money for upkeep of infrastructure, but he had enough for his guaranteed income project. I bet they still have midnight basketball and other “diversion” programs.
so my understanding of what AP is trying to claim is that too many racist white devils moved on to greener pastures leaving behind a nearly all black municipal population that is unable to govern itself without said white devils?
So I read the article states Intergration caused whites to leave, then middle class whites, then no money.
So are they saying intergration,,, f.y.i Bussing was racist.
Heummm, I thought that if you were against intergration And bussing you were racist
If they had just put those white people in chains and not allowed them to leave the city everything would have been fine!
To a leftist the only way to end racism is the final solution for white people—oh wait that won’t work either because then they will not be around to leech off of...
After seeing "racist" and "water" in the same headline, for the first time in my life I understand the lack of swimming skills.
Can Birmingham and Memphis be far behind? Atlanta? Baltimore?
No one at the federal or state level will dare investigate where the money went because they all know it was stolen, but pointing fingers at the perpetrators would invite the inevitable howls of racism. The Democratic party actively sanctions the theft and Republicans don't have balls enough to point their fingers and demand the crooks be held accountable. If more money is given to them to fix the water system then it'll be stolen also, that's what crooks do.
“the African Americans in charge of Jackson cannot run the city.”
Blacks are being supported, puffed up and excused by whites (or is it the mainstream media). Blacks need to learn how to, in this case, run a city.
To paraphrase the Bible, don’t give them fish, teach them how to be fishermen.
Local and state governments are in the habit of declaring themselves unable to fix a problem, knowing that the Federal government to bail them out.
Criminal mismanagement!
Because the dumb dems couldn’t keep the water flowing
Haven’t you realized by now that ANYTHING white people do or don’t do is racism? Hmm, obviously a racist /s
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