Jackson Jambalaya

Are these the guys in charge of the water?

Bleh. Vagrancy and nudity right in front of the hospital. Where are the so-called charities whose mission is to rescue these people?

They wouldn't dare do this "downtown" for fear of being shot.

Ah, The Bold New city!
Why isn't he arrested for indecency & littering?
JPD doesn't want to fool with him I quess.
It would take 10 police officers to put him in a squad car.
And then if he has a heart attack while being arrested the city would give a big payday to the relatives who would come out of the woodwork after hiring Ben Crump PA.
Welcome to the Brave New World of the woke culture.
I find it quite disgusting.

That's why Jackson State wants their own football stadium.
To keep away from the bums around Jackson Memorial stadium.
The red chair looks like it come from backyard burger.

If it can't be seen from Prince Chowke's gated/secure/guarded compound it's only a perception, right? (Woops, I used the 'p' word - my bad).

10:48 You must be a joy to live with.....

looks like he's eating pretty well for being homeless

Go woke, go broke! If you live in Jackghanistan, thank a Dem for your misery.

That chair between the benches adds a touch of class to this picture.

Where are all the bleeding heart leftist in Jackson to save these guys from themselves?

Right in The Fondren. Keep electing Chowke, you progressive fools.

Given this graphic evidence, BCBS should not only accept UMC's demands but pay double, just for those poor folks to face this everyday.

Is this naked and afraid show for Jackson!

@10:48

Bless your heart

Matthew 25:35-36: "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me..."

Or, in the case of this blog, "I was naked and sick, so you took my photo and held me up to public ridicule."

Backyard Burger should be paid compensatory damages for this by The Radical Incompetent City. I'll never be able to unsee this or eat a BB again. Gross to the nth.

I can't imagine why restaurants are leaving the city in droves.

bus them over to ladumbo's neighborhood

Speaking of being hard to live with, I bet 11:58 is doozy at his large Woodland Hills that hosts lavish parties. And, of course, the African American that’s ever been in it is a maid! You guys are as bad as these two poor souls in the bench. Tell us everything you do for these folks? Mistletoe Marketplace leftovers don’t count btw.

Interesting how liberals can’t/won’t complain about drugs, plight of the homelessness and undrinkable water when it comes to Jackson

How awful:1)for the two men, who for whatever reason live this way; and 2) for those negatively affected by their presence there --- Backyard Burger as a business and its potential customers; UMMC, our state's premiere medical center, its patients,families,staff, Not a Good Look!;the city of Jackson, evidence of another issue out of control. Would love to know how these gentlemen are removed. They should never have been allowed to camp out there so comfortably. Preemptive planning by JPD, but then they would have likely been challenged by the ACLU.

Every now and then, I think we need a reality check of what the heart of Jackson really looks like. This picture does that, and actually serves a purpose.

Turning a willfully-blind eye just perpetuates the problem(s).

As the "Dude" would say. "the orange chair kinda brings the room together".

Note to self: Don't eat lunch on a Jackistan bus bench, let alone even sit on one. Yuk!

Can’t make it to church this Sunday? No problem. Enjoy this thread mocking the homeless, poor and mentally ill. Like Jesus would.

Not to worry, as the bleeding heart residents of The Fondren and The Belhaven are lining up to take these members of the unwashed masses into their homes.

Bleeding heart liberals love to quote bible verses to call out bible thumpers, yet I see them doing nothing themselves except virtue signal and then go back into hiding. They would be the 1st ones calling the cops if this was in their neighborhood, just like they do when they see black folks walking down their streets in the hipster hoods around Jacktown. Just like they’re doing to the illegal aliens being taken north and now they want the National Guard to help, calling the cops on Blacks and Latinos in Austin because they’re having a car show. It’s all fun and games to them till it’s in their backyard and then they look to the sky and start to scream and punch the air.

Well, if you're looking for an upside, at least they're alive. Most bodies found along Jackson streets aren't.

Wake up folks Homelessness is a fact of the society we live in. It’s a case of the haves and the have nots. This is what you get when you refuse or misuse federal dollars. This is much more on our state leaders than the city of Jackson . We have this problem and all we we know to do is point fingers. And yes this is our responsibility as humans, Christians, Jews, Muslims and non practicing faith.

Don’t go into the City of Jackson.

Executive Summary
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s shared vision for Jackson’s future is the result of city-wide public engagement. Through community engagement, citizens provided ideas, approaches, and strategies on how to grow Jackson’s economy, create job growth, and ensure economic revitalization throughout Jackson’s neighborhoods. These ideas were brought together into a new economic model based on human dignity. A Dignity Economy was created, which holds deeply the value that there are no disposable communities or people - all citizens deserve investment!

Focus groups were conducted throughout Jackson to gather data for a strategic framework. The lived experiences of Jacksonians helped shape the Mayor’s five goals. It became crystal clear that to do nothing was not an option. Creating and acting upon a strategic framework would improve both the quality of life and economic growth in the City of Jackson.

August 6, 2022 at 11:58 AM
August 6, 2022 at 1:08 PM

Matthew 26:11
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.

Commentors are not hold the men up to public ridicule. They are making the point Jackson leadership has no policy to carry for the poor & sick.
Also, 50 years ago individual took responsibility for themselves. Now, most want government to give them free everything. I'm seventy-one years old dumb as dirt but have made a good life & future by hard work.
I wonder how long these men stayed on the bus benches.

The man wearing a sheet about his midriff is probably a patient from the hospital, sick of psych drugs and on the lam, just resting til he can get up and run again.

The other is too stoned to know he kicked one of his shoes off. Soon to succumb to Biden's fentanyl?

Even Jesus lets fools suffer their poor choices. The moral in many Stephen King novels/short stories teaches that every good deed is thoroughly punished, so don't try to help, they are dangerous to your karma.

Ridiculous! Stop making fun of the down and out. You take the time to take and circulate pictures, but not help. This is juvenile shit.

@2:00 and yet, our "mayor" has done nothing, as usual

@2:31, what you doing to help? Nothing, that’s what I thought. I can help, wake those guys up and tell them to get a job, stop sleeping one off on the city’s benches and be an adult. Sleeping one off on city benches is juvenile shit.

Well at least they're not driving alone or at night.

I was in Los Angeles three months ago and Houston last month. They have whole communities of this shit. The "homeless" which includes drug addicts, drunks, and mentally ill have permanent areas where they set up camp. It's not just a Jackson problem, it's an urban problem all over the country. These guys set up across from the largest hospital in the region for convenience. Lucky there aren't more. Most people just try to ignore them.

That would be *Your* Mayor. The City of Jackson is enduring a long slow death. Chowke wants you to believe he can at least offer palliative care, right, but the reality is the residents and businesses that choose to stay in Jackson are getting hospice care, if that.

The Mair says "It became crystal clear that to do nothing was not an option."

I don't know what glass of water he was looking through.

Sent picture with JJ url/post to WJTV, WAPT, WLBT. UMMC, Mayor and city conseil

Oh, OK...Woke-ness and liberal social policy are to blame for these two very lost human beings. Remember this when it comes to Madison, It, too, will end up with a cluster of hospitals and convenience store//gas stations next to a major interstate. You know, that karma thing. I'm sorry for yall and for everyone's children, who will inherit these probles Because, you know, karma and that always with you thing.

I was unaware that the UMMC ER is now using the buzzing coasters for when you are ready to be seen. That's so Red Lobster or Olive Garden.

" mocking the homeless, poor and mentally ill. Like Jesus would."

Nope.
Not at all.
No one is mocking these poor souls.

Blame Antar and his progressive policies before you attempt an indictment
of Christianity.

@2:00pm
Is that you doc Omari? Reciting Lil Choke's marxist, oral flatulence? I think you got his gasbag utterances down to a warm coating of slime and diarrhea, to smooth over his indignities of endless failures.

If he would just resign, you could don a habit and play Mother Theresa to all these wretched humans you have helped the punk mayor transform into garbage, castaways from his marxist wet dreams.

Perhaps the Full Moon BBQ in Madison will open a second location here.

Thank goodness! Thought Lamumbalot/JPD would have to claim responsibility for this, but Chef can say it’s the State’s jurisdiction and the City of Jackson has NO JURISDICTION!

The mayor needs to go to prison for what he has done to Jackson. The sooner the better.

The main result of posting photos like this of the mentally ill, homeless and drug addicts is to push all the buttons of the confederates who read the blog. I remember in the 60's and 70's when many of the white flighters and their parents still lived in the COJ city limits, and back then the regular folks out in the counties also were terrified of visiting Jackson. Here we are now and we see from the commenters' posts they are quaking at the thoughts of being confronted with offensive images as they post their defiant vows to never visit. Don't you think we need to start showing some Christian charity, if for nothing else to stop the ridiculing of these people?

@11:35 (second one), put down, please, the two-party Kool-Aid and back away from the “conservative” media machine. “Dem” has nothing to do with this. It’s something else, something deeper, something more basic yet unspeakable. Think harder.

Nothing says "come be a doctor or nurse here" like a view of flaccid bum penis on the way to your interview at UMMC. Then the idiots in charge wonder why they have a shortage of nurses. Women (and men) don't feel safe walking within feet of that at 2 AM going to the parking lot alone. Before the ccw crowd starts yakking remember that UMMC forbids carry by employees even if they have a permit so it isn't an option and leaving it in the car just gives a free gun to a thug

Hotty Toddy! That’s the stadium where Billy Brewer kicked State’s ass 7 out of 8 years. The good ole days. I think those guys used to sell popcorn.

"Oh, OK...Woke-ness and liberal social policy are to blame for these two very lost human beings. Remember this when it comes to Madison, It, too, will end up with a cluster of hospitals and convenience store//gas stations next to a major interstate. You know, that karma thing. I'm sorry for yall and for everyone's children, who will inherit these probles Because, you know, karma and that always with you thing."

Goddamn you are some miserable som'biscuits on this website.

As a society we have truly lost our way.

Talk about bleeding heart, woke liberals all you want, but when you have to answer to your Maker, here's what He says:

The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

@6:15, if that lets you sleep better at night to think that, go ahead. I’ll stay on the right side of things, where we can drive alone at night and drink our water straight out the tap. Good luck to you.

Don't laugh, he could be Chowke's replacement.

Chill out folks. They are simply on a "Walk About". If folks ar ehonest, many know a time when thye were snockered out of their gourd drunk or at least doing some sort of folishness they later regretted, and Don't say you never did anything as bad as these two citizens, because no one believes you.

Are they crazy? CRAZY YOU SAY? The law allows no one to make such accusatons anymore, so can yor criticisms. All of us are free to lounge naked on a park ench if we want to. I do similar stuff in my livinr room all the time, and obviously these two guys are in their chosen living room. I am offering training on my "Look the other way" program next Thursday in front of the Mayor's office. If you don;t know how th look the other way, just come by and most likely I can teach you how to do that.

7:09: Yeah and you live in the Madco.

If we had an election tomorrow, Lumumba would win. I thought he'd be voted out after many people were without water for about a month during the ice storm, but no, everyone seems to love him. What is wrong with the people that vote for him? Have they not suffered? Do they not mind all of the murders, filthy water and everything else? I don't get it.

8:42 AM, Would you want to be elected as mayor of Jackson? No one who cares anything about the city will run as they know there is little they could do if they were elected. They cannot fix the water system, they cannot pave the streets, they cannot hire police, they cannot stop the crime. Jackson is to far gone for any mayor to stop the decline.

The only people running for mayor are deadbeats that are just looking for a way to steal money. They know they will not be able to help Jackson but they can help themselves and their friends to what little money that Jackson has coming in.

It would be a much better idea to move the state capitol to another city. Then Jackson could shrink down to a smaller city that a mayor could handle. As it is now there is no hope for Jackson and no sense in leaving our capitol in a place that is what it already is and going farther downhill.

And the stadium where Southern beat Ole Miss 3 of 4.

Jackson has a city ordinance making public camping and sleeping illegal, but JPD drives right past this and does nothing.

Okay what jurisdiction is this? JPD or Capital Police? Who ya gonna call?

Kingfish, your commenters appear to think that “wokeness” is what caused these guys’ condition:

Other than just “not being woke,” what on earth is Jackson supposed to do about: “The state just avert[ing] its eyes and keep[ing] on dropping the mentally ill off at the bus station downtown.” Frankly, it seems like the state (which can hardly be called woke) plays a major role in this issue as a bad actor. Seriously, what’s Jackson supposed to do about that? I’m not being rhetorical or argumentative.

I'm not being picky as they mean two different things. It's CAPITOL POLICE, not CAPITAL POLICE.

See here: https://www.dps.ms.gov/capitol-police

So, @August 6, 2022 at 7:37 PM, have you fulfilled those scriptures? If not, why not?

In the same vain as your attempt to demean, might not The Master ask why a believer didn't cast the devil from these poor souls? To appear naked in public, in those days, was a sign of demonic possession.

For someone to willingly live on the streets, when there are numerous ways to avoid such a lifestyle, would indicate a mental defect, which also was attributed to demonic possession.

Or, could it be that these two are not demonically possessed but are simply too lazy to be bothered with following civilized activities like having room and board, decency of dress, personal hygiene, which would require them to have gainful employment.

If the third example is the case, I turn to the scriptures, again. The Apostle Paul wrote that if a man will not work, he should not eat.

It is blatantly plain that your post was intended as an accusation. The scriptures teach that those of the darkness, that follow that wicked one, Satan, are the accusers of the brotherhood of Christ. You should seek the light.

Do the UMMC Police have interlocal jurisdiction with JPD? They don't seem to want to deal with situations like this. A few weeks ago I was driving by the west side of their campus and saw a man passed out on the grass in the hot noonday sun. I called it in to the UMMC police dispatcher and all he seemed interested in was verifying that the man was actually on UMMC property. He kept asking, "Is he on the sidewalk? Is he in the street?" I said, "No, he lying out there on your goddamn campus, either passed out or unconscious, and he probably needs medical attention." The dispatcher finally said he would send someone out there.

The fat guy in the photo is on that part of the block all the time, and always barefoot. He usually tries to keep his pants on, though. In any case, that sordid scene was cleaned up by late yesterday afternoon.

As a former resident of Jackson, I gotta’ say, when your mayor is named Lumumba, you can’t expect anything good. And to those bleeding heart faux Christians, if you don’t have those guys living in your house, SHUT UP hypocrite!

Referring to them as homeless implies that their primary problem is that they don’t have a dwelling. The truth is that they are mentally ill- schizophrenic, bipolar, alcoholic or drug addicted. Until those problems are addressed, there will be no solution to “homelessness”

All this hate about these unfortunates. What would Jesus say about these two?

This is the next UMMC / BCBS billboard picture captioned:

"No shoes, no shirt, no dice..."

Not ONE person blabbing on this post offers a solution to help these 2 pitiful men! They might be insane but we are more insane to allow this. Mississippi desperately needs new state hospital NOW! We need to take care of the mentally ill. Whitfield opened 85 years ago. The naked man wrapped in a sheet needs care. Who will help him? JPD and the Capitol Police are useless. Phil Brayant, Brett Favre and all those who stole mega millions should be forced to pay back ALL that money and more and it should be used to build a new state hospital. Tate Reeves should be helping get a new state hospital added to the one at Whitfield. Delbert Hosemann, Philip Gunn and all of the legislature should be working on getting a new state hospital addition! Tate Reeves should find a way to take over the city of Jackson. We need Federal help to remove the mayor, the entire city council, and suspend JPD until law and order have been restored. They are NOT doing their jobs. Lack of trash collection can cause disease from vermin. Unsafe water can cause all kinds of illnesses. The city of Jackson is our of control and the governor is not doing one thing. People please offer solutions to these problems! Dumb and sarcastic comments might be fun to read, but this photo and these men are sad. This is what Jackson has become. We need help - not sarcasm!

If the state won't take over Jackson, at least invest in more mental health and rehab capacity. Most of the homeless have mental health or substance abuse issues and need to be taken to an institution for help, willingly or not.

@1:12...:at least invest in more mental health and rehab....". Uh, we dont have water to drink. Perhaps lead, feces and other contaminants cause some of these mental health issues. And, FYI, the City of Meridian buys these bums a bus ticket to Jackson where they are released.

More more more more.

That's all Jackson residents say they need from the State.

The reason why you don't get more more more more is because you cannot manage what you have have have have.

Water. More.
Crime. More.
Infrastructure. More
Education. More.
Mental health. More.

Summertime and the living is easy!

They've got places to sleep, a chair for sitting, a combo toilet/trash receptacle, easy access to get their iPhones repaired, and at least the guy on the right is getting his 8 square meals a day.