Jackson Jambalaya

At least someone is trying to fix the gravel roads that pass for streets in the city. Harvey sure as hell never did, and Jokeway doesn't look like he's planning to anytime soon.

Gotta git dem schools teaching that Columbus is a lie first!

What I thought was funny from the start, channel 16 was trying to make him look super secret. They had something that no one had and only they knew his I.D. However on all the broadcast from the first one they continued to show his car tag, how secret could he be from the city? What's up with that?

Is it any wonder than property values are cratering in Jackustan? Whole Foods ain't gonna fix that.

The pics I've seen published of him spray painting 'fixed by...' in a circle with an arrow do not show anything FIXED at all. Still looks like a pothole. Dude be wastin' his time.

He fixed 'em better than Jackustan Public Works fixes 'em.

Team Douche Shoutout

Hey 1:51, how do you take a story about a guy that does what he can to help the community and make it about something negative? Get. A. Life.

16 sure couldn't ride the gun law "debate" in HindsCo any futher...

It fixing potholes is as easy as this, the city should embrace the idea and put piles of asphalt in accessible locations throughout town. People can fix their own potholes, and city employees can be put to work on the voluminous pressing issues facing Jackson.

Where's the t-shirt?

...and city employees can be put to work on the voluminous pressing issues facing Jackson.

Picking up paper around town?

Isn't that what Mayor Chocolate Lambchops said?

Yo yo yo this act of perfunctoriality be racist! Our dynamic and eclectric new mayor is preparatoring to alluviate the city to stratorific new heights, but then some white kid starts expectorating the potholes in a vainglorific attempt to embarrassualize Imam Lumumba. How disrespectualist!

Would he interjection the potholes with copernicus amounts of asphalt if the mayor were Caucasual? My cogitatianism tells me, "Nuh-uh!" We must perflugate the reparation of the mayor by letting the potholes apostrophe until officious city workers can infiltrate them.

#JUSTICEFORTRAYVON

Though I applaud the mission and the statement, sadly these aren't permanent remedies. They aren't even temporary. All of the asphalt has already been washed away, and what's left is a giant "Citizen Fixed" tag and a pothole.

Also Pouring dirt, gravel, or sand into them would be just as effective, but doesn't require theft.

Again, if he wants this to stand as a nonviolent protest, then fine, but the media coverage has ignored the fact that nothing is really fixed.

Anyone who thinks that racism is not alive and well in the State of Mississippi could read this thread, and that would get them out from under that rock they have been living in. Thanks to 3:28 and 3:35 for providing us some good old fashioned racist entertainment. Life must be hard out there in the Puckett trailer park, huh?

Whether or not his filling in the potholes was effective, he saw a problem, and he had two choices: (1) bitch about it on Jacksonjambalaya.com; or (2) actually do something about it. Thankfully, he made the decision that most of the people who post on here are not mature enough to make.

... that most of the people who post on here are not mature enough to make.

Obviously including yourself.

3:55 ...awesome, well said

yep 4:29, poster at 3:55 falls in that category because he called out a bigot. How dare he speak against them? Doesn't he know that is not proper in this state?

Anyone who thinks ignorance and sanctimony are not provincial staples of leftist idiots could read 3:55pm.

The Oswald Bates character is a joke based on an old Damon Wayans skit from In Living Color, but you're too ready to snap the tired old saw of "RACISM!!!" and yawp your smug superiority that you didn't bother to check it out.

Even better, you decry stereotyping, but are all too eager to cast anyone who isn't a white guilt buttkissing JFPer like you with your own stereotypical pejoratives of trailer park denizens, you know because if you're not a leftist goon who laps up the maxims of the media and celebrities then you must be a poor, backward hick, because Dirk McStudly said so from his limo as he was leaving the red carpet at a Save Us From Global Warming soiree.

It never ceases to astound me as I watch the sliding scale of racism. It used to be defined as a hood-wearing Klansman who lynched dark skinned men for whistling at white girls. Now it's applied to someone who says, "I don't care for Obama's policies" or "you know, I'm not certain Zimmerman was unjustified." To the Left, they're the same. It's all about silencing those who don't toe the line of egalitarian bullshit. Orwell would be proud.

The most maddening paradox is watching liberals spit out detestable statements of bigotry while upholding themselves as paragons of tolerance. Take a bow, you coprophagic numbskull.

Golf-Clap to 3:55. Regular CLAP to some of the others.

Jackson is a cesspool. This guy just hasn't realized it yet.

6:09 obviously took option 1 (bitch about the problem on the Internet). It's really funny about how you complain about big government and then, in the same damn breath, ridicule people that solve problems without going through the government, thus lessening the need for big government. I wish there were more people in Jackson, and as far as that goes, the entire United States, like chane, and less people like you. It certainly would be a better place to be.

As for 5:15, welcome to the 21st century. Quit being over dramatic. Not liking Obama does not make you a racist, depicting black people as caricatures does. See post at 3:35.

(1) bitch about it on Jacksonjambalaya.com

July 11, 2013 at 6:45 PM has chosen Opt #1.

I spotted him just this morning. He was wearing an old Kroger T-Shirt. Guess who?

Too bad they all washed out today.....

What made the Oswald Bates skits on “In Living Color” so funny was how Damon Wayans was spot on in the way he portrayed the character. I think Mr. Wayans must have seen an episode of “Sanders Speaks” on the MS public access channel and based the Oswald Bates character on it.

What all of you who are appaulding this guy's efforts are casually overlooking is that his "fixes" haven't really fixed anything. It takes more than shoveling asphalt into a pothole to truly fix it. I'm glad he's bringing attention to the problem but he doesn't deserve credit where it isn't deserved.

Chane has accomplished his intended goal, media coverage. It was never about fixing potholes. It was about free advertising and selling T-shirts.

I miss Enoch on TV......and his hat.

8:23 Chane is doing exactly what DPW does. That is ALL they do. Pour material in the hole and tap it with a shovel. Anyone who seeks to say Chane's repairs were substandard are either trying to discredit him or haven't watched DPW apply one of their patented here-today-back-tomorrow "fixes".

Scratching my head at those who fail to see the difference between " I don't like Obama" and " I think Zimmerman might be innocent" and inferring all black people are misanthropes and incompetent and/or Muslims.

This has nothing to do with liberalism vs conservatism but with a lack of civility.

It also is a mentality that could assume all Oswalds are communists who wish to create unrest so as to bring down the government.

I don't like Obama's policies . I think Zimmerman might be guilty of poor decision making but hardly second degree murder. Still, I can say so without negatively stereotyping blacks or trying to increase social discord.

As for Chane, all he has to do is insist on a jury trial. Jury nullification will be the result.

Right. No comparison between the white Hispanic Zimmerman and the white African-American Obama.

"Anyone who thinks that racism is not alive and well in the State of Mississippi could read this thread,...."

Yes, it is true there is racism in Mississippi. I can also name 49 other states which harbor racists.

At least this one pays homage to a brilliant, albeit forgotten, bit of Damon Wayans' best work.

BTX, fixing potholes does not require "big government". It is a mainstay of plain vanilla, garden variety, competent government. It is one of the things that even Tea Party types agree is something that is a proper use of local taxes.

If the powers that be hadn't let crime and poor education get so out of control that most of those capable of paying taxes moved out of the city limits there would undoubtedly be more tax money available to maintain the infrastructure. Unfortunately Jackson has passes the tipping point and is circling the drain, with or without a Whole Foods (PS re: Whole Foods - Ridgeland has had a The Fresh Market for 3 or 4 years)

8:52 I'm not saying Jackson DPW does any better. I've watched the exact same thing, which is partially the reason our roads continue to get worse evey year becuase of the half-assed job done by city crews. Which I why I have no problem calling out Chane for doing the same half-assed job.

^^^is right. Nothing is being fixed. The total result of this foolishness is an unpatched hole and a painted circle. Might as well take a crap in the woods and call it lunch.

No doubt 10:10 and 11:44 would have preferred that Chane do nothing rather than draw more attention to the third world conditions in Jackson.

Raw sewage in our creeks? No problem.

Sinkholes? Yup.

Busted water pipes? The more the merrier.

Decaying roads? Let's take them back to gravel and call it a day.

Draw the attention of whom? People thousands of miles away that are only going to point and laugh, or people who live in the area and have been quite aware of the problem for the past decade plus?

"We've got a new mayor, give him time to fix things!"

Heard that before, more than once. Add in the fact that the mayor doesn't run the city by himself. There's the utterly corrupt city council to deal with. Shedding light on the insider deals and complete contempt of the law by the people running the city would do more to get the roads properly fixed than shoveling in asphalt that won't be there after the first big storm and then profiting greatly from free publicity with shirts/mugs/etc about the situation. Where are the "Lieutenant of what" shirts at? That would be a public service. Or even putting directions on how to PROPERLY do an asphalt patch on the "Pot Hole" shirt. How about donating proceeds to having contractors educate volunteers on how to really fix their neighborhoods.

nah, that would be to close to right.

I would applaud Chane's efforts but for the following facts: 1. He is "fixing" the potholes strictly for publicity purposes (he was bragging about it weeks ago to a friend). 2. The potholes aren't actually fixed. They are filled with small rocks that wash away with rain and time and then break windshields. 3. The resulting "citizen fixed" tags make the streets look even more ghetto.

What disturbs me the most is the spray paint. How long will these tags last after the potholes have reopened? If he wants to mark his handiwork, perhaps he could place a little sign in the tarmac, sort of like the "Free Birdseed" signs Wile E. Coyote places in his roadrunner traps. That would be more sensible.

Our man Chane ALSO made Autoblog.com last week! Way to go good buddy