Jackson Jambalaya

Lee was on his game.

Sorry Kappy but you don't live in Jacktown and don't understand the dynamics.

Lee's a goner.

He can hoot and holler all he wants on your radio program Kingfish about how he didn't campaign in NE Jacktown but the vast majority of his net margin came from Ward 1.

So Yes, your title of this post is wholly appropriate. Weep Lee. Weep.

Dayum! They is dynamics in Jacktown?

Lee swamped Chokwe in Belhaven. Po' Tom. Not enough voters from Uranus there.

Precinct 16 (Woodland Hills Baptist Church) was 27% turnout. Harvey and Chokwe got 17% each and Jonathan Lee got 53%.

Across Canton Ave at the Fondren Presbyterian Church poll box ( Precinct 17) had 44% turnout with 80% for Lee and Harvey got the rest. Not even a dozen righteous voted for Chokwe.

Chokwe is simply put, a black intellectual. He will make radical change in Jackson. Which is what is required to have social development. Lee will be just another technocrat who manages the farm for the master.

wow, 8:14AM, are you really that dumb or are you just "funnin" around?

"Not even a dozen righteous voted for Chokwe"

"black intellectual"

"radical change"

"social development"

"technocrat who manages the farm for the master"


It's really sad to see the racist attitudes of some blacks and the ignorance that they willfully display. All they do is hurt themselves.

Until we rise above our color and vote for mutual progress and not just "black progress" we will remain in the back of the bus. Not because of "the master", but because we are more worried about being given a seat than we are about earning a seat as productive citizens.

Couple of things:

Any ideas on why Precinct 1 was such a low turnout & is their percentage normally so low?

I've been told that Councilwoman LaRita Stokes moved, without notice of any type, Precinct 19. It was moved from the corner of Palmyra and Fortification to Cherry Grove Church. People were lined up at 7:00 AM at the previous location and continued to come in all day trying to vote. The owner of the polling place for 19 was never notified and called the day before the election to ask where the chairs, etc. were and was told that Mrs. Stokes had them move the location???

@8:14 anyone who has seen Chokwe try a case knows he is anything BUT an "intellectual."

Wondering what is meant by 'social development in Jackson'. And, once defined (as if) how would Chokwe manage to contribute to it.

A schoolhouse can't 'develop' a child who has been raised to be a miscreant. Nor can a mayor raise a city which has languished in sloth, by choice, for decades.

Like all the other black mayors, Chokwe wants to increase his PERS benefits, at retirement, and wants to run an employment office.

Lumumba would be a better role model for the youth. Lee is really not candid or honest. He has employed the best legal talent to help with his business situation.

Social development is not in the Websters Dictionary and Wikipedia redirects to 'social change'.

Lumumba would contribute thru his character and leadership. Taking municipal initiatives from the grassroots level of social needs such as utilitarian and moral approaches to education. Social development is slow. Like 'quality of life' it is somewhat vague. Political purposes are linked to social betterment, but the political life is only part of it.

2:44, are you drunk, crazy, or just stupid? The idea that Chewe Bacca is an intellectual insults and mischaracterizes the use of the word "intellectual." What kind of a role model goes to Cuba and denounces the US? He wants reparations for slavery because, as you saw in his video, "US was built on the backs of black people." And Chinese people, and German people, and Irish people,and anyone else who worked in factories in the 1800's. Go crawl back in your hole and get some of that education you think Chewe Bacca is going to give the youth of our city.

"...utilitarian and moral approaches to education". What meaningless drivel, Tom Head. Can you comment on the current 'amoral approach to education' or advise the group on a non-utilitarian approach, now employed?

Can we just call him Edwin. His name is Edwin. He chose some ridiculous other name to get rid of his "slave name". Idiot...

The precinct level results favor Edwin.

THe decline of Jacktown continues. The metro area will suffer, unfortunately.

"utilitarian and moral approaches to education".....like a bad song ringing in my head. I won't sleep for days trying to figure out what that means.

This is only one example of the 'education' Tom Head managed to get, online and through home schooling. As has been said before, the 'man' has never been in a physical classroom in his life.

Education is a highly practical unless one is simply studying for the ACT. Instruction in food preparation, grammar, writing, balancing a check book, plumbing, & c are utilitarian in nature as opposed European history or art. African or Near Eastern history might be more appropriate to Jackson students with ancestry in those continents. Values are best taught by parents but the schools can follow up. Healthy habits are likewise.

I am discouraged that so few, including the candidates themselves, seems to understand the role of mayor and know what a mayor can or cannot do to effect change.

A mayor with a city council can present plans, can appoint and hire ( one hopes) competent people to carry out the business of the city, but primarily, a mayor is our city's " host" and marketer. He is the face of our city.

He should have good social skills and be able to put our best foot forward with those who visit our city and consider doing business with our city.

Even though I've read John Stuart Mill , I cannot imagine how a mayor CAN take a utilitarian approach to education. Will he be lecturing in the auditorium on the difference in utilitarian and epicuran philosphers? If so, I think an ethical slant would be simpler..." Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" as opposed to situational ethics.

Should either candidate read Mill, I hope they read all of Mill and not pick and choose. Then they will know Mill believed those who benefit from a society are obligated to contribute to society and that happiness is an "altogether" concept.

But, perhaps, the best guidance is found in this century. Nelson Mandela understood one doesn't achieve anything by becoming like one's oppressors. Yet, sadly, I've seen too often in Mississippi that good old boys come in all colors...who benefits from the political spoils is the only change that takes place.

In a sidenote to an article written by Donna Ladd, she said she had been denied access to a Lumumba event a few years ago because she was told it was open to blacks only.

Has anyone followed that unbelievably racist tidbit? That's pretty effing astonishing and damnable.

I don't care if it happened years ago. Lee's past was fair game before the JFP confronted him with not telling the truth.

i think it fair game to follow up on this. Hello, anyone?