Jackson, MS water system is failing, city will be with no or little drinking water indefinitely

[BobbyWojak]

Bruh it’s so many cheap places to live in rural areas of Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas & Tennessee that are full of black folks but a lot of folks not ready to live life at a slower pace.

People with the right mindset and money can turn those areas into something amazing away from all the BS

I hate the political sphere people like Charles M. Blow inhabit but his book advocating for southern migration 'The Devil You Know' really opened my eyes to the potential in these majority Black southern counties. I'd never think I'd want to live anyplace other than the north east but as I get older it just doesn't make sense to buy a house anywhere near nyc or boston.

 

[Rekkapryde]

@Rekkapryde


That’s a fact. shyt im willing to bet the majority of citizens in Jackson are good people but most won’t rock the boat or demand better because that requires effort and putting ego aside. Black people still waiting on a kumbaya moment, failing to understand that we don’t have to get along with everyone in order to make progress.

In my observation, the most obvious difference is that most well to do people don’t accept what poor people do because they put in work hard to obtain and protect their assets. Poor people work hard to protect their image.

Church

 

[King Poetic]

The governor knew about the situation months ago and at any time this issue might come up

But the blame is on shortage of people

America and Accountability is something that doesn’t see eye to eye

 

[get these nets]

OP and I grew up in a city with water problem that got national attention. Newark had a different issue involving water. All the pipes connecting water INTO residences had to be replaced.
Made headlines when it was a health concern, Mayor Baraka coming up with a way of resolving the issue was barely covered/reported.

Now, his city was/is in an economic upswing, and the current governor (D) is a fair and progressive politician, but as the Mayor it was ultimately up to Baraka to come up with a solution. That's what you sign up for when you run for office.

Not to pass the buck.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Because he have higher concentrations of poor Black people. Instead of fleeing educated Black people need to stand ground and fight for change because it will benefit the majority of Black people. If you could flip Alabama and Mississippi that would go a long way.

If you are not FBA/ADOS I'm not really interested in having this conversation with you though.

My guy I fukking living in the south too I’m not encouraging any of my people to themselves in harms way. I’ll just fukking leave instead. Y’all love to push the worst ideas while completely ignoring the institutional issues.

Y’all also stay making excuses for these racists

 

[Voice of Reason]

My guy I fukking living in the south too I’m not encouraging any of my people to themselves in harms way. I’ll just fukking leave instead. Y’all love to push the worst ideas while completely ignoring the institutional issues.

Y’all also stay making excuses for these racists

This is California




Cacs are racist everywhere.


We have the numbers to make change in the South IF we get a surge of the right kinds of Black people leading the charge.


Fleeing and being scattered is not useful.

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

But once the black folks leave, it’ll get fixed immediately…

This,

My 1st thought exactly

 

[pete clemenza]

This is the capital f*cking city for crying out loud! What a mess

 

[Animal House]

this is all down to politics as usual. city workers and council should never have let it get that far.

heads need to roll.

when people on this website advocate brehs going back to the south and living in concentration in Black Areas they fail to account for the fact that people had already been there and left in large migrations for a reason. The type of targeted neglect that is visited on places like Jackson and Flint is hard to do in mixed demographics

Well I would NEVER EVER tell anyone to go live in Mississippi, I had the displeasure of staying there for a month when my house got flooded during the hurricane last year and damn that place is backwards. And that’s me being respectful to anyone from there

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

didn't say you couldn't, my point is what would a Black Jacksonian do about it?

I'd move if I could.

This is near sided thinking
You don’t leave your home
You fight for it
Black people are the most resilient people walking the face of the planet
When we are determined, strategize and make grassroots movement
Nothing can stop us
Just up and moving creates the atmosphere they want
From every crooked politician at the top to the local councilmen
Start putting fire to these peoples asses that supposedly represent the community
Guaranteed every muthafukka with power in Jackson was getting paid to look the other way
But you start either by
fukking up the economic structure
Or
Take to these peoples front yards of wherever they live(majority of the people in power don’t even live in that city)
Make it uncomfortable for them to sleep and watch shyt start to change
Another thing is I hate how nikkas who live in other parts of the world come in to threads like this
Telling people about our supposed history
Or what the fukk black Americans SHOULD BE DOING
While having the most fukked politics in their own countries
Or laid up with some foreign bytch in Colombia , Honduras or where ever the fukk
Like you ain’t taking advantage of the corruption your damn goofy self
shyt be downright perplexing

 

[Wiseborn]

This is near sided thinking
You don’t leave your home
You fight for it
Black people are the most resilient people walking the face of the planet
When we are determined, strategize and make grassroots movement
Nothing can stop us
Just up and moving creates the atmosphere they want
From every crooked politician at the top to the local councilmen
Start putting fire to these peoples asses that supposedly represent the community
Guaranteed every muthafukka with power in Jackson was getting paid to look the other way
But you start either by
fukking up the economic structure
Or
Take to these peoples front yards of wherever they live(majority of the people in power don’t even live in that city)
Make it uncomfortable for them to sleep and watch shyt start to change
Another thing is I hate how nikkas who live in other parts of the world come in to threads like this
Telling people about our supposed history
Or what the fukk black Americans SHOULD BE DOING
While having the most fukked politics in their own countries
Or laid up with some foreign bytch in Columbia, Honduras or where ever the fukk
Like you ain’t taking advantage of the corruption your damn goofy self
shyt be downright perplexing

you're absolutely correct except that you're daughters will have lower IQ's from the lead and the boys will want to become girls from injesting all that plastic filled water.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Trump didn’t want to help any state that didn’t vote for him.. we note doing that here breh

I'm waiting for the State of Emergency announcement and the emergency bill that Congress should be debating right now.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

This is California




Cacs are racist everywhere.


We have the numbers to make change in the South IF we get a surge of the right kinds of Black people leading the charge.


Fleeing and being scattered is not useful.

We can agree to disagree. Cali also recently did this



Acting as if blue and red states are the same is just more disingenuous bullshyt from the same crowd that pushes all the wrong shyt and never provides reasonable answers to these issues so excuse me for completely ignoring anything you’re saying.

Voting for progressives continues to be the path of least resistance and most logical to fixing the issues

Once again in order to fix the voting situation and even the playing field in the south it’s going to require federal intervention as it always has when white racists oppress us in these shytholes across US history. Lot of y’all failed to pay attention in history classes or did any research on the subject and it shows

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Just like Flint, MI they pretty much cut off the water in black cities this is why we need our own infrastructure.

 

[Voice of Reason]

We can agree to disagree. Cali also recently did this



Acting as if blue and red states are the same is just more disingenuous bullshyt from the same crowd that pushes all the wrong shyt and never provides reasonable answers to these issues so excuse me for completely ignoring anything you’re saying.

Voting for progressives continues to be the path of least resistance and most logical to fixing the issues

Once again in order to fix the voting situation and even the playing field in the south it’s going to require federal intervention as it always has when white racists oppress us in these shytholes across US history. Lot of y’all failed to pay attention in history classes or did any research on the subject and it shows

My point is you can change red states blue with enough Black folks coming back and participating.

Of course it would be a hard life but it is the ONLY forward for Black folks in this country.