Jackson Jambalaya

Heard Chokwe pulled one over on Jeff Weill last week though and got a not guilty verdict.

Smith-Wills ... what memories.

Like when Chief Jackson RINO and then City Councilperson Ben Allen -- while shaking down taxpayers for $800,000+ to put artificial turf into Smith-Wills -- *guaranteed* that Pearl would never build a ballpark.

Give ole Chokwe "Jed Clampett" Lamumba a break.
He's just upset that Mrs Stokes has been stealing the spotlight.

This is just for ratings on this season's top rated comedy show in the area.

It is perfectly ok to be a racist in Jackson, as long as you are black....proven time and time again.

6:07, I don't care about Ben Allen, but that is a silly thing to quote against him - such a "guarantee" would be so obviously bogus that the only person who could be ashamed about it would be anyone who took it seriously.

It's like me guaranteeing that the price of gas won't go over $5/gal. this year. How would I know?

Tip of the hat to Bluntson for stepping in and quashing Chokwe's idiocy.

Chokwe's argument was that Jackson is 85% black, but he was concerned that in an 85% black city with a 72% black city council, a black mayor, and majority black members of probably every department of city government, that blacks were being discriminated against in a city park.

All incredulity aside, Mr. Lumumba, who is the authority who is keeping these minorities out of the park? A secret white society within the JohnsonJunior administration?

Anderson posits that nobody should believe a damn thing Ben Allen says. Well, duh!

Did I actually watch this happen on film?

Lulz big time. Anderson, I'm kinda wondering where you are coming from recently.

Edwin aka Chowke, "The People's Lawyer", was an active revolutionary as co-founder of Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the black separatist group, who, in the last decade, the MS Bar formally charged with being unfit to practice law in MS. More recently Ward 2's councilman took up the cause of seeking a full pardon for the Scott sisters and watched them be released from prison last year.

Ward 2's councilman's term expires in 07/2013; however, less than a thousand of his 25,000 constituients are white. His seat is secure because his voters know that he advocates black power in every manner he deems necessary.

My child played little league baseball in the surrounding area some thirty years ago, so I well remember the strength of the all-powerful Grove Park baseball community. They were deservedly respected. Therefore, I take offense that Lumumba referenced a racial slur he recalls being hurled at a talented GP black pitcher from those many days gone by.

So, I took a brief walk through Grove Park's current status. As one of Jackson's 55 city parks, GP boasts more ammenities than any other city park. Baseball registration fees range from $30 for 3-5yo, $55 for 6-8yo, $60 for 9-12yo, $65 for 13-14yo, and $70 for 15-19yo players. GP League's insurance will cover full payment of any uninsured injured player. Interestingly, GP lists 26 sponsors including Trustmark Bank who also sponsors North Jackson Baseball. Contrastly, NJBB lists only 5 sponsors including Trustmark Bank. Mr. Lumumba wishes for equal representation for his ward's GP ball team. I, too, would be interested in learning a financial accounting of the city's expenses for those two parks. It appears that GP is constantly in need of servicing due to vandalism even though the Dept of Parks and Recreation has a Parks Rangers Division specifically established to maintain safety and ensure peaceful use of our parks.

Factually, the installation of synthetic turf in 2004 at Smith Wills Stadium was not so much a guarantee against competition as it was to develop it as a multi-function facility for events such as outdoor concerts, sporting events, etc.

Anderson; does your theory imply that we needn't believe any of Ben Allen's other bullshit guarantees?

my gawd ya'll! Chewbakka is at it again! He and mrs. kenny 'tokes make such a fine pair! stay tuned!!

turf @ smith-wills was last ditch gasp to fetch another baseball team by city "leaders", allen included, who totally f'd up getting the ballpark built downtown.

allen's oft-heard radio boast was that pearl ballpark would never get built as long as tim bennett was involved. boo hoo.

multi-function bullshit was the coverup after they failed to get a team and to misdirect away from the screwed downtown ballpark pooch.

was typical harvey johnson project, original estimate $768,000.

contractor came back two times for mo' money to address "unforeseen" cost overruns.

biggest being that city staff did not disclose that part of smith-wills was built over an old garbage dump. ouch.

when all was said and done the f'k up cost $855,000.

WoW! Mr. Whitwell might as well get on his knees and apologize to Chockwooo.

North Jackson Youth baseball is a nonprofit corp. that runs the baseball for its area at little cost to the city other than the use of fields. Grove park and its baseball is fully managed with Jackson tax dollars.If cost accounting was used I bet there is 10 times the funding to Grove park baseball than North Jackson.

Didn't one of the dear leaders call baseball a white man's game and push for the new team to be located somewhere else than Jackson?

Ok Jackson is 85% black... SO correct me if I'm wrong, would the 15% whites be the minority?? Why are we still referring to blacks as the minority when they are NOT