Jackson Jambalaya

Shaking people and businesses down, just like the righteous "reverend" Sharpton.

I understand momma bear being emotionally overcome; however, the employer should have pressed charges if this man came onto its property in a threatening manner. Period. Let him go to court and be released with charges dropped...but...take his ass to court as would be the employer's right and responsibility.

Diversity officer?? Why can't private businesses just hire who they want? As long as they can do the job, pass whatever background the employer requires, etc., why does Archie even have a say who gets hired, and how was he even let on the property? I wish Kelcey would have recorded the encounter so we could see first hand the kind of shakedowns our local government is engaged in.

What a bunch of bullshit...I'd let him know he is no longer welcome and have him arrested for criminal trespass the next time he comes around.

This is why corporations do not open plants or establish operations in areas of not very well informed (aka stupid/ignorant/both) people, as they elect stupid/corrupt/both people.

1:55 - Reality and the facts in the matter sort of kill your theory.

Perhaps 1.55 PM should’ve added the word “more” between the words “why” and “corporations”

Hinds County ...doing business the same 'old' way!!

If I were the CEO of this tire factory I would shut it down and move away. This would be David L Archies's Legacy. Then again he would blame them dirty low down white people.

District 2 is getting what they deserve for staying on their butts and not supporting McQuirter. His six years was the brightest spot on Hinds County's record for the last 3 decades and they didn't even bother to show up to vote in 2019.

All you folks out in the county who were beating him up during the election need to go read the board agendas for January and February and look at the rural roads that David Archie too OFF the paving list so he can pave Mayes Street and other roads inside Jackson.

BTW, no way Continental would have located here without McQuirter's leadership. Hinds would not have been on Continental's finalist list had they been dealing with David Archie.

1:55 PM is absolutely correct.

I'm still scratching my head why Continental Tire even selected Hinds County. There are many more business friendly counties in Mississippi they could have chosen.

Regarding David "L" Archie . . . well, that's just another classic example of the people getting what they elected.

I guess posters on JJ assume they are smarter than the CEO of a multi billion dollar worldwide corporation. That makes you just like David Archie.

"I'm still scratching my head why Continental Tire even selected Hinds County. There are many more business friendly counties in Mississippi they could have chosen."

They are Germans. They DID lose 2 consecutive back to back World Wars.

I voted in the Republican Primary to help a friend, but if I knew that a village idiot like Archie would get elected I would have gone to any lengths to vote against him.

Please run again, Commissioner McQuirter! I promise not to let you down EVER AGAIN.

5:07, perhaps we should have open primaries.

" They are Germans. They DID lose 2 consecutive back to back World Wars."

So what ?

The Germans also bombed Pearl Harbor.

LOL.

But real Germans are way too smart to select Hinds County for any project.

1:55 is absolutely correct !

Nobody ever mentions the collateral damage corporations suffer from idiot employees and crooked con artists.

It never ends with these shakedowns.

Archie, Bennie Thompson and their likes are nothing but poison to Mississippi. I wouldn't open jack shit around here other than a liquor store, or a check cashing shop.

@7:27 get a sense of humor my friend, that WWII joke was great. And the Germans did not bomb Pearl Harbor. It is important to the rest of us that you know that. Of course, maybe you were being sarcastic. I’m hoping so.

" It is important to the rest of us that you know that "

Geeze 9:48 . . . .

You have nothing to worry about.
Have you ever heard of a little film titled "Animal House" ?

I thought everybody knew the Germans bombed Seattle. Jeeze.

This is a shit show on so many levels.
1) Moms and Dads-stay out of your kids’ f@#$ing businesses. If you raised them SO DAMN RIGHT, they can handle their own shit. Unless they are still nursing, let them be grown. Momma bear-you are now the problem and you obviously didn’t do a good job raising your child if you have to stick your nose in it.
2) A diversity officer is code word for hiring incompetent people, regardless of their race. Hire the most qualified candidate and your business will be successful. Start having quotas and you you will be better off moving your business to Mexico.
3) Archie the clown-go home. You are just keeping Hinds county in the bottom. Be gone.

A smart guy would have went out there and said We are so glad to have you'll here in Hinds County and look forward to a long relationship and thank you for all you are doing on minority hires.

But we are talking about David Archie. This is the biggest and best thing to happen to Hinds County in years and Archie screws that up.

For what it’s worth, Bennie Thompson was kept in the dark about the Continental announcement until the day of the announcement because MDA and the county knew he would screw it up. That’s the main reason he came out firing against McQuirter the last 24 months and supported Darrel’s challengers. He and Toni Johnson and David Archie can bark all day long but it’s too late to scare off Continental. They have employees from 20 counties.

Make Noise. Nothing personal. Success and failure have nothing to do with it. Our constituents were poor and ignorant when we began and will be poor and ignorant when We are finished. In fact we never intend to finish. We make noise. Noise. Noise. Noise. Nothing personal.

Very eloquent, 11:23.