Jackson Jambalaya

Here's the truth Jacksonians. Omari lives in Ridgeland.

Where are your facts, Mr. “Mayor?”

Ashby Foote and Kenneth Stokes united together and taking bribes? That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. Sounds like Chokwe knows he is toast…

Jackson MS has become the most racist place on earth. They literally despise white people. I don't think the powers that be realize who built pretty much everything they destroy today.

Wow! Pretty strong accusation by the mayor. I expect Kenny to come out swinging but Ashby will back down.

Lamumba is in the Bruce Willis movie pretending to be the mayor....azzz opposed to his "regular" job of PRETENDING to be the mayor.

I believe pissing Kenny off is not very smart.

Chokwad and his cronies couldn't open an umbrella. The level of ineptness and corruption coming out of city hall is astounding. For the life of me, I don't know why Shad isn't investigating.

Clown Town.

An utter joke.

Lol, the most common way to prove if someone is taking bribes is when they accuse everyone around them of taking bribes. Same as when a damn lie starts offering reasons why they ain't one. My gawd.

"If they attack you personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -- Margaret Thatcher

Then it’s time for the Feds to get involved. I’m sure the Mayor
will be glad to open the City’s books as well as his own.

Pot: "Kettle, you are black." (Play on words, right?)

Is Chowke worried about the knee breakers paying him a visit?

Why do the Mayor have to have fact, people on this page always saying he takes bribes so now it ridiculous.

Why should he investigate? On what grounds? No money has been spent. His hands are somewhat tied for municipalities.

The best decision I ever made was moving out of that third-world shithole.

Who’s that old man in purple? Sounds lirKr slander to me, and I don’t thing they can hide Devon’s an immunity defense on that one?

Baby Chowke is getting desperate while anticipating a visit from a couple of NOLA knee-cappers.

Kenneth Stoke is a joke of Jackson, MS

So the mayor is saying, "You're a crook if you don't vote for the Richard's Disposal contract." Maybe the reverse psychology will work, but more likely, the petulant mayor knows he will lose the vote & is trying to get ahead of the fallout.

I love how the presser keeps getting interrupted by the asshole vehicles with the amped-up engines. That is the sound of Jackson! So f***ing tired of that noise.

Chuck-up's evidence for bribery is that Stokes is attending too many Council meetings? How did that flailing boy mayor procure a law degree, Kellogg's box tops?

After recklessly stomping Stokes' character in the mud, this impetuous child of a mayor assures us he is serving his last term.

This fool has no idea who she's dealing with. Kennuf is about to Cray Cray on her. As Kennuf likes to say "YO MAMA!"

STOKES for Mayor!!!! You saw it here first.

Tomorrow's Council meeting will be a hum dinger!

Oh...and yes...Stokes for Mayor!

Hopefully, Stokes and Foote will file a joint libel and slander suit against Antar.

They should charge admission for this bullshit its better than Friday, Next Friday and Friday After Next.

Project much Chokwe? What a joke!

I'll just go ride the Ferris Wheel at the Metrocenter tonight. It's all back, right? Just like the lady said it would be?

And our garbage will be collected twice a week, as long as we have small garbage cans, right?

Hasn't been a shooting for a few days!

This is SLOPPY SHOP and you can bet your last dollar there isn't a single elected official in this county , not one, who hasn't at some point taken money or gifts. It's all part of the game. It's the ones who take so much that they need a off shore bank account and can spend thousands in Atlanta strip joints.

Can't Kennuf "I Smell Booboo" Stokes just sit on Chowke?

Why does everyone harp on the Mayor's age but not Shad White's? Serious question.

I have read every thread on all the posts on the trash contract and the Mayor is referred to as "boy" quite a bit. And Shad's name is invoked over and over to come investigate. But he isn't called a boy auditor even though he is younger than Lumumba.

Just sayin' ...

(this post has nothing to do with the merits of the trash contract debate)

(this post has nothing to do with the merits of the trash contract debate)

That is obvious, as is your true agenda. Just sayin'.

TYPICAL MARXIST MOVE! Regarding the trash conflict, since the Marxist mayor is being accused of taking money, he is going to accuse his opponents of taking money. WHAT A CROOK!

Stokes told the media that the mayor has a drug addiction and needs treatment. Seriously, I just heard it on the 5 o'clock news on WJTV!

The "boy mayor" comments are all about his immaturity, his selfishness & being convinced of his own greatness, his delusion of intellect, his lack of self-awareness & his overall incompetence & lack of maturity in everything he undertakes - they're not about his age.

Cartoon choker got excited that he was hangin out with some cool cats from Hollywood. He such a narcissists that he forgot he is the one steering contracts. He’s about to learn a hard lesson.

At tomorrows Special Meeting of the City Council, simply suspend 2 briefcases from the ceiling of City Hall. One contains the WM Contract, the other contains the Richards Disposal Contract. Both unmarked. Proceed with a TLC no holds barred single elimination match.

My money is on Stokes and Foote, even if they gotta go up again for the other briefcase.

And no, Virgi can't just sit at the table with the Dibiase fellows for color commentary.

CANNNNN YOU SMMMELLLLLLL WHAT THE CHOK IS COOKIN?! (Here's a hint: It aint Tuna Helper)

They are referring to his behavior, which is immature. When he can't get his way, he shoots off at the mouth way too often. He gets away with it because few people ever call him out. City goes without water for a month, blame the state over and over for not paying its bills. Flat out lie but he got away with it for weeks. Hide EPA order for a year, when caught, blame the media and public for being "Ill-informed" when he was the one who hid it and would only discuss it behind closed doors. Blame supply chain problems for not ordering parts for the water plant when in reality he didn't order the part until January and only on the last day of a MSDH deadline. When challenged, he raises his voice and becomes more militant. Remember all the talk about Zooceanarium? The truth is he got mad because the Board voted to study moving the zoo, wouldn't talk to anyone, and shot off his mouth about getting a company to manage when none existed. Then he got stuck with it. He never dreamed he would be forced to close the zoo for nearly a year. This is what he does. He has no proof of Stokes or Foote taking bribes because none exists.

As for Stokes, yeah, he owes an apology for the cursing but Omari kept berating the City Council when Lindsay tried to close her remarks. Stokes has acted this way towards everyone, not just women. Ask Sheriff Bryan Bailey. Maybe I should show the video of Stokes and Pete Perry going at it. They were both out of line.

February 28, 2022 at 4:46 PM
Shad doesn't act like a petulant child. That should be obvious.

@2:45. “Why do the Mayor have to have fact, people on this page always saying he takes bribes so now it ridiculous”

Why does the mayor need facts? Many posts on this page accuse him him of taking bribes and it’s ridiculous.

Just sayin’

KF, IF Stokes owes Omari an apology, she likewise owes one to Stokes, and to a few other Councilmen.

'Shit' was the worst word I heard on that video.

Somehow accusing Stokes and Foote of being on the take is supposed to encourage Banks and Hartley to swing support over to Richards? Lumumba is reckless.

The problem with the council meetings rest in the lap of Virgi. She can’t maintain order in the meetings. She allows the mayor’s staff to get away with outbursts and such. If she would stick with Robert’s Rules of Order, things would be much more civil.

stokes is right on the mayor! i never would have thought in a million years that i'd agree with much of anything mr. stokes says. but he's on the gospel truth train lately...

Thanks for the response, KF.

@ 5:04. I really didn’t have an agenda in asking. It just seemed unfair.

Virgi tried to stop her but Omari, I'm sorry, I mean Dr. Omari, just talked right over her. Virgi sometimes forgets she has a Sergeant at Arms present.

To the Lumumba Circle: If you don’t know it yet, everyone else does. You’re a few in a position of power, way over your head. Chockwe will be the first to throw you under the bus, when he’s caught in a lie and a can mumble his big words out of it. He’s correct when he says that’s just the way he talks. He simply can not perform the duties of Mayor, without being greedy and abusive to his constituents. So, he has to use big words and mumble around the truths. He’s all talk and everyone is starting to take notice. Even those who he thinks are too damn stupid to catch on. He’s such a bratty kid who could never make it in the real world. I’ve personally talked to numerous people around west and south Jackson. They voted for him and now they’re sick of it. They see through his childish ways of blaming anyone he can. He would be just another one them, if not for his father’s legacy. You’re going down with him!!

It’s not about age in numbers. It’s age in character or being responsible to your actual job description.

“Da mayaa got to quit smoking dat dope.” - Kennuff

To answer the question truthfully, many commenters on here denigrate Mayor Lumumba by calling him “boy” because they know KF wouldn’t allow them to call him the n word. Don’t believe the lie that they call an African-American man “boy” because they think he’s immature. If that were true, there are many ways to express that (incorrect) belief without using a common racist slur against a black man.

I for one don’t want to pay my part of $12 million so that WM can keep picking up my garbage. Sure, they empty my cans fine, but is it worth $12 million?

This Dr. Omari decides she is a figure to be given such deference that she can lecture the City Council on an issue in question without being called out. She is obviously the purveyor of 'truth" and the council should bow to her instruction as children in a classroom. So now she addresses the disrespect at a press conference as if the council and the city itself needs her further instruction. If arrogance were money she could save the city's tax base singlehanded.

February 28, 2022 at 8:09 PM
Just admit you hate white people. As "conservative" as kf is he doesn't censor black racism.

If somebody came up to me 10 years ago and handed me a free laptop and a sack of money and said "take a year off and write the Great American Novel -- the most absurd, outlandish, unbelievable, cock-a-mamie story about Jackson ever contrived...," I would have failed miserably in comparison to the fodder that these ass-hats give us daily.

I won’t call Lumdumba boy. I get that can be seen as racist, though I refer to my sons that way when they behave like fools. Chokeway is a foolish, arrogant, ignorant, corrupt, dishonest, cowardly empty suit. His race is irrelevant.

608, kinda like your Mayor making claims in his official press conference that Stokes and Foote are taking bribes? He produced no facts, and he said it from his official capacity in an official action as Mayor (standing behind his podium/emblem).

So, does he need 'facts' to make his claims as an official of the government to the media of the city - moreso than an anonymous commentator on a blog?

You want to call the kettle black, well here's a perfect example to see how black the kettle is.

Respond?

Dead on 7:14. Not fooling anyone except themselves. Over their heads would be an understatement.

KF @ 7:11.

Virgie might 'forget' that she has a Sergent at Arms present, that's a pretty weak response. She evidently forgets that this is the COUNCIL meeting; the Mayor is an invited guest. He makes it clear that he is the Executive and gets to make a lot of rules, but in the Council there is a reason he (and by default, the "Dr." Omari) sits to the side.

Virgie could have shut her down. Yes, she "tried" but didn't try hard. On more than one occasion she tried to reign in Omari, but yet the self-rightous bitch continued talking and even talked over a Councilman (Stokes) twice.

Stokes was correct. Damn that's a hard thing to say, but it was a Council meeting. He had called for the question twice, and Virgie in her limpass attitude allowed Omari to continue

RRO, which obviously not a one of this group actually knows, says that "Call for Question' is immediate. Its not debatable. But of course Virgie because she has decided to kiss up to the Mayor (and whether up is the operative term, also to his COS) ignored Stokes twice.

Omari was out of line. She was expressing personal opinions, not representing the Mayor's presenting of an agenda item. Anyone that wants to defend her rant needs to go back and look at why she even had access to the floor. The only pcurpose of the Mayor (or his representatives, including agency heads) is to provide information about the agenda item under discussion.

Omari was venting her personal bitches, opinions, and frustrations. Virgi should have shut her up, as Stokes tried to have done multiple times. But Virgie, (maybe appropriately named from viginia) ceded authority to Omari and let her call the councilmembers corrupt and incompetent.

Kenny said she "talked to them like they was BOYS*!".....and if Banks, Hartley, Foote and Stokes change their tune in the vote tomorrow, we'll KNOW they is "Boys" after the good Doctors tirade of a press conference.

* If "Boys" is code word replacement for the "N" word, does Ashby Foote get honorable mention next year during Black History Month? I mean, time is kinda running out this year...

Hey 8:09, how much are you willing to pay when Roberts lives up to their reputation and the streets fill up with uncollected trash? How much is lugging a 96-gallon trash can to the curb once a week worth to see two men on a truck use a lift to collect it? How much is it worth to dump a reliable company for one that can't even handle collection in New Orleans and Baton Rouge? How much it is worth to put all these experienced collectors out of worth just to make a racial statement? Last time I looked trash isn't just white or black, but destroying a city to make political points leaves the entire city trash (just ask Detroit).

yack yack yack

If Kennuf was takin bribes from WM, he would wear a suit that fits. Fella is still wearin swaths of fabric Mrs. Kennuf sewed for him. Dude is not takin bribes from WM.

I hope the BOYS don’t cave to the minority card. Once Richards can’t handle the job, their just gonna blame it on something else. And, the BOYS know this. The Legacy City just can not handle much more of the cancerous administration of Lumumba. Chockwe knows he is incapable of being able to handle anything that requires moderate sophistication. Empty suit is very accurate. God bless his children. They deserve better.

I just thank God that Lindsey's heart is pure in seeking to avoid litigation and standing with our upstanding young man, and son of Lumumba, in avoiding all conflicts of interest and serving the interests of all her constituents, in Belhaven and elsewhere.

8:09 wasn't WM's bid the lowest for 2x a week pickup and no "new trash can" ... at least until Mayor Lumumba the Younger "clarified" the bids?

If Richard’s get this contract , I imagine it will be crap show for awhile. They don’t even know the routes. It will take awhile to get on a good rhythm. And if their trucks are equipped for these bigger trash cans only. I’m sure we will eventually get these bigger trash cans because that’s how they operate. You can always amend something (RFP) for approval. Right??

Why is it so important that we need to switch , is this out of spite??
I know this will just cause more problems and not really fix the real issue.

Omari is really smart - take a paycheck from Jackson then retreat to Ridgeland at night so she can be protected by Ridgeland PD and drink Ridgeland water.

My garbage gets picked up twice a week in Ridgeland. No drama.

Somewhere along the lines, men stop being men. And became drama queens. It didn't begin with social media, either. Social media only emphasized it.

Dad said, "Always look a man in his eyes before you steal him."

How do I give to support Kenny? I want a Stokes hat.

This press conference proves only one thing...that a little education is a terrible thing. Both Omari and Lumumba engage in nothing more than oratorical dramatics.

They pretend they're speaking to a lawyers' convention, choosing their words carefully and their punctuation precisely, stumbling over them as at least one of them tries to read from the paper she looks at. Wordy sentences using proper king's English seems difficult, even for the educated. Both of them (and this will offend her sensibilities) were literally farting in a whirlwind.

How many in the audience or in the City of Jackson understood a fourth of what either of them was saying?

Omara is a tuba in a line of violins. Totally out of place and blasting arrogance like the thumping of bass farts. Oompa Oompa!

OMG, now I disrespected the learned one.

Most members of the city council are in over their head. The "doctor" should have been removed from the room by the sergeant of arms. This is a no brainer. Neither the mayor nor the "doctor" run these meetings; as penned above, they are guests.

Jackson's problems start at the top, and that would be the city council and the mayor. They don't have a clue.

"Why is it so important that we need to switch , is this out of spite? I know this will just cause more problems and not really fix the real issue."

You're not serious with that question, are you? And what 'real issues' need fixing? This is about nothing more than race and kickbacks. How often have you heard these two clowns mention 'contracting with black people' in their plea to switch to this incompetent company?

Neither Chokwe nor his stooge gives one whiff of rank-trash about the adequacy of garbage pickup once Richards gets the contract. All that matters is contracting with a minority owned company that provides cash kickbacks on a periodic basic.

If everything else in the city is either broken or ineffective, what the hell difference will it make when the garbage system also goes to hell? Chokwe needs this contract in order to reach his goal of 100%.

Does Richard's Disposal have a landfill in the Jackson area? Where would their trash be dumped?

9:37....Damned good question!!!!

I keep hearing that the intent of changing waste services, is to save the city "millions of dollars". But, it's not an apples to apples comparison of services provided. And, isn't the cost a straight pass-through to the citizens? Or, is the city subsidizing or skimming, with regard to this service contract?

Had evidence of actual bribes come to Lumumba's attention his duty as Mayor is to present that evidence to the proper authorities. There is no wiggle room on that. This scorching of the earth yesterday says more about what he knows he doesn't have, which is votes on the Council. Considering the animus he has created his agenda beyond the basics of infrastructure and consent decrees is DOA for the remainder of this term. He is barely more than a lame duck from here to 2025.

@10:37, since this has all began Lumumba and his proxies have trotted out a number of soundbites hoping they'll find something that resonates and sticks. The focus on cost, cost, cost is only the latest.

10:45. I hope you are right, but this is Jackson. The relatively few who voted voted twice to put this arrogant twerp into office. I’m afraid too many of those who do vote are proudly ignorant and that they have endless patience with a city government that is a Third World government. I don’t think they want anything better. They are comfortable with having a government that is no more successful than they are. People who want better have left this woebegone town or are trying t

Speaking to those here who perpetually seek racist motives in others, who perpetuate a myth of "owning" certain English words, I use "boy mayor" as a derogatory but accurate synonym for Lumumba, a feckless and ineffective mayor, who acts like an imperious brat.

Regardless of age or color, he simply refuses to invest the hard work of responsible management to create a safe, prosperous city. Further, he couches his endless failure as an aspect of others' prejudices and actions.

Finally, this boy mayor crawls on his slavish, obsequious, marxist belly to beg for handouts from the State and Feds to compensate for his shortcomings, meanwhile letting Jackson rot and die.

In saying he believes Foote & Stokes have taken bribes from Waste Management, the mayor said he has been "trained professionally" about how to make such accusations. What an accomplishment, given such a low bar.

11:29 Did you happen to notice the quality of candidates running for mayor? People are not satisfied with the city or the whole damn country for that matter but when you have little or no choice because nobody sane wants the job what do you do?

Chuckway has clearly taken a “campaign contribution” from Richards and is panicking to thrown them the contract. To infer that Ashby Foot (a West Point grad) is taking bribes is totally ridiculous. I hope that Shad gets involved and the mayor and his secretary go bye bye.

Virgi, your a traitor… you voted to reappoint Chokwe to the one percent board again. You make me sick I’m done and many others are also

Thank you Virgi you are right he is still the Mayor Jackson.

I understand that Stokes, at the city council meeting today, said he was going to ask the U.S. Attorney to investigate these bribery claims. The mayor may have overplayed his hand on this one.

Stokes accepted the challenge and has asked US Attorney LaMarca for a "complete and thorough investigation".

Never let it be said that the Emperor takes the high road.

My experience is that the finger pointer is guilty of what he accuses others of doing.

Ashby Foote abstained from the vote to reappoint the Mayor to the 1% tax commission. He was elected to vote up or down on city business. He is weak and a true disappointment. Someone needs to take the badge he wears away from him.

If the Mayor has proof that Ashby Foote and Kenneth Stoke have in fact been bribed as he alleges, why hasn't he submitted such proof/evidence to the DA or other law enforcement ? What he alleges is a crime, and he should report it if he truly has proof of it. (But he doesn't, so he won't.)

If RSS was still alive, they could have just fabricated a case.

“Dr.” Safiya Omari.

If you can’t raise your hand when you are on an airplane and someone on the intercom asks, “If there is a doctor on the plane, please raise your hand”, then you should NOT be called a doctor.

She’s a joke.

There is absolutely no way that someone (cough, cough) is NOT getting kickbacks to push through this incredibly bad idea of bringing in an ill-equipped, unexperienced vendor in to an already crumbling city and letting them create more havoc. We moved reluctantly, but only because the current administration is a nightmare and there's no relief in sight. I still will fight for a better city. Sad, sad, sad.

The people who live in Jxn remind me of an old lady that I knew growing up who complained endlessly of back pain, but when a family friend offered to do the surgery for almost nothing she declined.

Jackson folks don't want a hand up. They literally don't want improvements.

They want to make you as miserable as they are. They aim to drag everyone down to their level so we can all complain endlessly. And they revel in holding pressers to bemoan the injustices, and bathe in the attention their plight provides.

Its like a bizarre Stockholm-adjacent syndrome.

Any candidate that really had Jackson's best interest at heart would not get 10% of the votes.

The low IQ fans of Mayor YammerLot simply outnumber the sane taxpayers.

You cannot fix this mess without gentrification.

Hence the Boy Mayor's staunch opposition to any suggestion of such.