re: The state of Mississippi has had enough of Jackson's BS

The mayor and city council focusing on this kind of stuff is why no one will ever see change in Jackson.

- public water: trash. Hasn’t been updated since the 60s

-roads: trash. They are months behind on potholes and can’t even fix brides in the nicest neighborhood in the city.

- schools: trash. If you live in Jackson and can’t afford to send your kids to private school you’re F’d

The fact that these aren’t their primary concern (along with crime) should let you know they will never fix anything or make it better.

The state of Mississippi needs to start building a wall around Jackson and turn the whole city into the state penitentiary, "Escape from New York" style.

They ought to build a wall around that city and have the outdated bread trucks dump in bread everyday to feed them. Maybe the citizens outside the wall can throw over a few potatoes. De-wall in 20 years and help the survivors.

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That's Ridgeland

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close enough. As long as they stay on 55

I was with you right until the end. Taking down the wall after 20 years would release the mutant badasses that survived the chaos. How about dropping a nuke inside the wall after 20 years THEN taking it down.

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Lumumba promised to make Jackson "the most radical city in the country" when he was running for office.

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He misspoke and meant racial.

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That CAN’T be the mayor’s real name?

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It's not. He (the dad) was from Detroit and had an American name but he became radicalized, changed his name to Chockwe and came South to establish the Republic of New Afrika (not my spelling but theirs).

I’m afraid to ask how that’s possible. Of the three cities I’ve lived in, I would say Baton Rouge has the worst traffic and New Orleans roads don’t make any sense planning wise but Jackson takes the cake when it comes to potholes and general shite quality of the roads.

When my wife was working on her phD from Miss State on child hood obesity, she and another phD canidate had to "survey" a very poor neighborhood in Jackson. (Just a visual survey from car). About 15 minutes into the neighbor hood a policeman pulled them over. "What the hell yall doing here?" They explained. The cop told them their survey was over and not to come back. Cops had ten phone calls in 15 minutes saying two middle age white women were either looking for drugs or men. Yeah, the major professors deemed that part of the study unimportant afterwards.

I think the DMV in the mall at Metrocenter in Jackson closed down. So, that means they are coming to a DMV near you to clog up the lines even more.

Jackson leadership is incompetent. Schools are prep for Parchman Penitentiary. The mayor in the early 2000s took out bonds to pay debts back then that are now coming home to roost 4 times over, they want to leave a dying zoo where it is instead of relocating, and on top of that, look at Pearl, where the baseball stadium is. Economic boom.
It could have re-vitalized downtown, but they didn't even try to get it there.