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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Democrats have run Jackson for decades and decades.....Black Democrats. Spare me the usual BS cries of “racism!” Just like California, just like a lot of other blue shitholes, Democrats running things have done it to themselves.
It turns out that people of both white and black pigmentation move away from criminal neighborhoods and that’s systemic racism as defined by the left.
So this smart move is wrong?
I see the Liars at Ass Press are at it again.
Yes, and I notice the same poster, posting from the Ass Press on a regular basis.
Having seen this issue rear its head in nearby Newark NJ, it is clear nobody wants to ask basic questions about the welfare reservations: “How much will you contribute for ______ (insert “emergency services”, “public works”, “public schools”, etc.)?”
In the end, you get what you pay for, in addition to what the government can force other people to provide for you. Like former African colonies, residents inherited an infrastructure built (and funded) by previous residents, who they often chased out. They “won”; now they can reap what they’ve sown.
"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."
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