Jackson Jambalaya

If his lips are moving he be lying.

If Lumumba can't provide water and sewer to his citizens, why in the heck would he want to provide garbage pickup?

It was racist when Brandon, Clinton, Madison, Ridgeland, Gluckstadt, Pearl, and Flowood had water service during the ice storm. I'm waiting on Mississippi Today to write an article about how the white folks in the suburbs are responsible for the city of Jackson's garbage woes. It is clearly racism.

A Madison resident (white or black) pays monthly for garbage pickup. A Jackson resident (white or black) doesn't get their garbage picked up at all. If you can't see the clear racism in the previous 2 sentences then you must be a Klan member, a Trumpster, or watch Fox News.

Surely Joe Biden can help gumflapper out with some federal garbage collection assistance. I mean, flapper has Biden on speed dial, right?

@4:10p- Therein lies the real issue...

Liberals like the lying mayor are SO indoctrinated that ass-backwards thinking and policies are like oxygen to them. They cannot process and do not believe beyond the scope of what THEY WANT and/or have been falsely led to BELIEVE... period. Don't try to display reality to them. Their minds literally cannot process it!

If you really look at the state of our country, the liberals who kick and scream about the indoctrination of the "Trumpsters" do not realize that THEY are the one who are indoctrinated with false thinking. Those they refer to as "Trumpsters" (also known as anyone who thinks conservatively) are the hard-working, everyday Americans who have always been present. After decades of indoctrination, the libs now have enough (ignorant) voices to make the normal folks look like they are the problem.

Jackson will NEVER prosper with the current mayor or anyone with his mindset at the helm.

@4:49 PM Well said.

I wish the mayor would care as much about out of control murders, fatherless families & failed public schools as he does about something as mundane as garbage garbage collection.

Why does NO NEWS AGENCY read the details of the failed contract, and follow the leads and the money. The wife of the owner of the murderous M BAR was to be the supplier of the trash cans utilized by the rejected company. She was starting a company to supply them, which is highly irregular. Oh, BTW. They also donated $10,000 to Lyin' Lumumba's campaign.

Without the last name and the legacy of his father Antard would have never been elected. He wouldn't have been elected due to experience or skill set or having served for some period of time in a lesser office. He is as out-matched by the job today as he was the first time he was elected. Because he brought, and brings, NOTHING to the table but the name and rhetoric.

Perception of countless murders, bad or no water, and no trash collection…..

Yes, well said @ 4:49, it's the truth. I'm 51, a business leader that had to make my own way. Through my experiences, I've learned several things. One of which is when someone such as @4:10 reads your logic, their indoctrination precludes them from being able to think independently or logically and they remain disillusioned their entire life, it'sreally sad. Hence the state of Jackson and our country.

Waste Management - if Jackson staggers away from their contract, please continue doing business with Clinton. You provide great service and we are grateful for your efforts to provide excellent service. Thanks again for all you do.

6:17, if you were actually a "business leader," you'd have to get a minion to explain sarcasm to you someday.

Total whiff on 4:10 there.

Disagree and you're automatically called a "racist".

That plan quit working years ago with rational people of any race.
It's actually comical to hear such ignorant garbage in 2021.

Methinks we will see even worse Antar tantrums in the near future.

.... Right ?

Mayor, please wait until some fool buys my Jackson proper before you quit picking up the trash. It is hard enough trying to sell property without water, and roads that cannot be travelled on faster than 15 MPH.

@7:29.

Right.

Baby chowke has painted himself into a corner. He has to follow each lie with another lie, like a petulant teenager, right?

Jacksonites - when are you going to cut your losses and recall this fool? Is there such a process available in backwater Jackistan?

Can we start the Stokes for Mayor campaign now?

I want one of those hats.

What’s with all the “Right”s right!

The mayor micromanaged the selection process for a garbage collector to guarantee the result he wanted. Then he went public with complaints about Waste Management very late in the process. It's odd that the bids weren't opened in a public meeting - instead, they were opened behind closed doors without bidders in the room. The mayor is heavily invested in choosing a garbage collector - much more so than previous mayors. We can only wonder why.

Liemamba's job is to reward those who financed his campaign, but the Council is inconveniently obstructing him. Damn I love that Socrates Garret RENTS trucks to claim he has years of experience hauling residential garbage.

We could dig up old political cartoons of Tammany Hall and rerun them except that corruption and ineptitude in Jackson is so juvenile.

Lumumba II is proving that managing the public's perception will eventually give way to realities on the ground. Bullshit might get you in the door, but it won't keep you in the room.

@9:08 I'm not OCD but I find myself counting the number of times he says "Right ok"

7:45
Yes!!!!
Say it again even louder so the “mayor” can hear us!

7:45
Yes!!!!
Say it again even louder so the “mayor” can hear us!

I don't live in Jackson, but don't tell me I don't have a dog in this hunt. This is just damn entertaining. You can't make this crap up. It's free and like a serial....each episode ends with new suspense about what's coming next. It keeps you glued to the story. Keep it going.

What’s with it is something he learned at a seminar. Ending a sentence with “Right” is a psychological attempt to gain approval from his listener. Weakners will fall for it.

@ 1:17 PM

So he went to a seminar to become a "psycho" expert … right?

Our mayor makes me sad.

" Can we start the Stokes for Mayor campaign now?
I want one of those hats ".

We all want a Stokes' cap 8:30 AM.

I would even pay extra to have a brief phrase on the back of said cap.

"Smells like boo boo" ...
or
"It's the dope boys" ...

Apt for our Honorable Mayor:

"Everybody's in it for their own gain. . . "
Joni Mitchel, Court and Spark, Free Man in Paris, 1974.

Mayor is waiting on tainted hush money from MBar before he further draws negotiations out. It has NOTHING to do with helping ta paying persons residing in Jackson! This is against the law to hold RESIDENTS HOSTAGE to line his pockets!

This makes me angry and sad.

I am assuming Chokwe justifies this somehow because it keeps the money in Jackson and is going to fellow Mississippi people versus flowing out.

I am not against keeping Mississippi money to Mississippians where possible, but someone locally actually has to be able to do it.

This is like failed state level of politics.

Imagine if the children's hospital construction company had been bid out in this fashion. Good Lord.