Jackson Jambalaya

You actually expect JPS and Kenneth Stokes to get something right?



The best way not to get disappointed is not to expect much.

This is gonna be GREAT!

Can’t wait to see the video.

Go ahead and pass the school bond referendum all ready. We the citizens that pay taxes are in for a raping so let’s just get this over with and quit dragging it out.

so KS called the meeting before JPS?

What’s a blackberry?

Kenny Stokes is the Donald Trump of Jacktown, He's just trying to make Jackson great again.

Wait... there’s an Obama Elementary School in Jackson???

Maybe the elementary school's principal's husband will get some of the $$$

Stokes for Mayor!

Comparing Kennuff to The Donald in any fashion is like comparing a toy airplane that winds up with a rubber band to a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit.

9:42 you knew that was eventually going to happen and 10:45 you’re right.

This city will never change. Let’s go ahead and face it it’s gone

Kenny would not kowtow to Putin so Trump must be the one with the rubber band.

Stokes is 100% correct on this issue... also, JPS knows this as well that is the exact reas0n they panicked and held a supporters meeting at the south Jackson elementary school same time and place as this one. It's sickening.

Actually, Stokes and Trump are cut from the same cloth. Full of hot air and acting out for the cameras and playing to their constituencies who are too ignorant to realize what is going on. Exact same playbook.

South Jackson? You sure about that?

Which meeting are you recording. Next Question: Where is Obama Elementary School?

It's on Congress near the old Two Sisters restaurant.

I went to the Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church where Mr. Stokes held his town hall.

I bet Kenny had better snacks at his meeting.

JPS re-named Davis (as in Jefferson Davis) Elementary School Obama Elementary School.

Davis Elementary was renamed Obama Elementary last year I believe. Because of reasons.

Here's the story no one but me seems to know about.

David Blount sends his kids to private school in Jackson while hanging out with his wealthy Jackson neighbors and yuppies with family money… Meanwhile he plays I mean (preys) on the poor areas. Sickening!!! I believe that he's a con man at best.

Kenneth Stokes is right to question this looming fiasco. He genuinely cares about Jackson and his constituents but his message is muted by his buffoonish demeanor. JPS is going to hose the very people they purport to help and Stokes know it and is trying to get info out before it is too late.

12:20, is it written somewhere that one can't live well and still care about the poor?

July 17, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Sez: "Blount sends his kids to private school in Jackson...I believe that he's a con man at best."

Since when does one have to be part of the problem in order to help solve it? If your theory were true, an oncologist could not treat cancer unless he'd had it himself.

it's a sign of the end times when Kenneth Stokes is the voice of reason amongst Jackson's elected officials.

for whatever reason, KS is taking the right stand for the right reason. it's rather bizarre.

I have a glimmer of hope that my fellow Jacksonian tax payers may be waking up. The squandering of our taxpayer dollars has reached a truly massive scale. Millions upon millions disappear overnight yet nothing ever gets done.

The reason the schools are in poor repair is that virtually no funds are being allocated for maintenance. The majority of funds are gobbled up by administration Less than half ever makes it to the classroom and literally pennies for maintenance projects.

Funding is higher than ever before, enrollment continues to shrink, yet the cries are never ending for more, more, MORE!

I'm being literally raped on my car tags and property tax. Grifters, con men, and cronies end up with the money. The kids are left with naught.

WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!

VOTE NO ON THE SCHOOL BOND!

JPS, you need to show us you can be responsible with the funds you have before you start coming back looking for more!

Blount is a joke whose goal is to be the only white D and be able to run for higher office. Joke.

I read the link provided by Louie The Flower. I admit to not knowing, or either forgetting, that the JPS Board had renamed Davis School Barack Obama in order to banish the memory of President of The Confederacy Jefferson Davis.

I notice in the linked article that the Clarion quoted PTA President Jefferson. I missed the followup article in which it was reported that PTA President Jefferson also went down to the courthouse to have her name changed.

Obama elementary?? That is against the law. Check Mississippi Statutes: Title 55 - Parks and Recreation: alteration of historical monuments and memorials. 55-15-81 Alteration of historical monuments and memorials prohibited;sanctions. The statute specifically states that schools are included under this statute. Jefferson Davis school was named after a hero of the Mexican war and the renaming of this school is illegal under Mississippi law.