Jackson Jambalaya

Kingfish, maybe you should write a story about why on Earth JPS thinks it's appropriate to consider the Mayor's father as the namesake of an elementary school? So, JPS is considering teaching the Republic of New Afrika as a good idea? How on Earth is he considered on the same level as Medgar Evers?

White people in the JPS community are not happy about this.

So, what's JPS's reaction going to be when the kids at "Lee" Elementary School go around disrespecting white people because of the color of their skin?

https://www.wlbt.com/2020/09/22/lee-elementary-jackson-will-be-renamed/

Awesome...nothing like a little free labor to clean up the Jackson shit show...as to changing the focus of the Jackson Police from perps to trash collecting, why not just defund them and deputize the sanitation engineers...do you suppose they could start with removing the solid waste sitting on the City Council and in the mayor's office?

Looks like an action-packed meeting of spending money that doesn't exist.

How’s this broke city going to pay for all this? This agenda reads like a make-a-wish foundation request

JPS has proposed several names. The Lumumba name is just one name. Number two, you thinks blacks love the name of all schools in this state??? I promise there are worst people than Lumumba that schools are actually named of in this state.

#1 having volunteers doing Code enforcement? They gonna show up in court if a hearing trial happens. What training would they have. Guess we don't have enough people getting their asses kicked without supplying extra fodder in these so called enforcers.

#3 Allowing Public comments during Covid-19. What the hell does that actually mean?

My friend brought this up.

10:59 Why should white people be unhappy about naming a school after a Jackson mayor that was once named after a Confederate General? It does not mean anybody is going to teach hate or that the Republic of New Africa was a "good idea". Did teachers at Lee elementary teach that the confederacy was a good idea? If there is disrespect it has nothing to do with this renaming. I only hope the council would place more emphasis on the quality of the schools and not just their names. You too.

vote early and often on the new name for Lee Elementary
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScW12MQjkIfaz75cWGJVxYlQ0qem8diBB6KLDJY1CKuI7cG8g/viewform

"SUPPORTING AND ENCOURAGING THE EQUIPPING OF NIEGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS..."

The city should sell some more bonds and use the money to purchase "spellcheck" software, because products of the JPS certainly can't spell.

Hint: NIEGHBORHOOD

I dont care what they re-name any school in jxn, they better just hire some damn code enforcement officers and start doing something about this abandoned property.

I will be happy for the city of Jackson to provide health insurance, when the city of Jackson shows that it can function as a city, first and foremost, with a understanding that it works for the constituents. As of right now, we can not even repair a pot hole correctly, or hell, for that matter, the water line leave on my street that was repaired in August of 2016 and left as a 8x8' dirt hole.....We did not even get limestone (which is a unacceptable repair).

" So, JPS is considering teaching the Republic of New Afrika as a good idea? How on Earth is he considered on the same level as Medgar Evers? "

" JPS has proposed several names."

Well, I glanced at 12:23's link. Six or seven options to choose from . . .
(depends on how the two Dr. Shirleys are counted).

I didn't see the name Edwin Taliaferro on their list of choices.

Just an observation . . . in the event JPS wishes true history should be included in their curriculum.

Real code enforcement is not simple. It required training but nothing that is being done in Jackson is for real.

10:59 here

12:23 I agree there are bad names in the state like the "Ole" in Ole Miss, Jefferson Davis County, or the elementary school in question's current name assuming it's named after Robert E. Lee. I'm not a Lee hater, but it doesn't belong in a public K-12 school in Jackson, Mississippi.

With that said 12:23 and 12:52, the name was still recommended. Do you see any new schools popping up in the 21st Century called Jefferson Davis or Nathan Bedford Forrest? So, they want to change a name for the better, but are still going to recommend someone who believed in the South breaking off as a separate country only for one race? People that weren't even from the South coming up with the idea I think. Sounds a little ironic, doesn't it?

It states in the WLBT article or the link within the article that the students are going to be taught about the three finalist. The second sentence for the former Mayor is about New Afrika. So, the plan is to teach the young impressionable minds about breaking off from the USA and starting a country just for black people by taking property in the South of non black people whose ancestors could have been Union soldiers or had literally nothing to do with slavery or Jim Crow, or maybe even a medical professional or person who paid crazy taxes to help said people, etc.?

Also, I see you can vote more than once...rigged election?

3:42 PM
None of them good options.

Correct spelling and decent grammar doesn't seem to matter to many people these days. I work in a doctor's office and we have patients come in all the time who can't even fill out basic paperwork. These aren't elderly people who may not have had much education. These people can barely spell anything except their names. Very sad. JPS is terrible!

Get me outa here. So tired of it.

4:10, the problem with your post is that it makes sense.

Again with you guys. First it’s “Jackson doesn’t do anything!” Now when plans are being discussed “Oh that’s so dumb! “It’ll never work!” It seems like it’s more to y’all dislike of Jackson than leadership.