One bit of crony capitalism escaped notice during the Jackson Trash Wars. The proposed Richard's Disposal contract awarded 7% to a lil ole subcontractor, Expert Professional Solutions, for information technology services. Yes, IT services for garbage collection. The company is owned by one Akil Bakari, a long-time Lumumba crony.
The proposed garbage contract states:
The contract amount for twice per week garbage service was $9 million per year ($756,000 per month). Thus Expert Professional Solutions would receive $610,000 per year for "information technology" services. If the contract was extended for ten years, Bakari stands to make $6 million. Good grub if you can get it. Nancy would be proud.
Mr. Bakari also managed Mayor Lumumba's transition team in 2017. However, Mr. Bakari is not merely a Lumumba crony but is a brother in the secessionist Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. A 2018 interview in the socialist Prabuddha Journal opens a window into Lumumba Land.
The MXGM leader spells out the philosophy of his cause:
The whole idea is around self determination, we feel as an oppressed group of people in this country, that we have the right to self-determination, and have every right to decide how we should be governed and who should govern us. The founding members of NAPO are the late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, Watani Tyehimba, Ahati Tyehimba, Chinganji Akinyele, Aminata Umoja, Akinyele Umoja, Makungu. The founding members of MXGM are all of the above members and Akmed Obafemi and Safiya Omari
He does not mean self-determination as we practice it but rather using it as an excuse to form an independent country carved out of the Union. Where have we seen this idea before?
Make no mistake, what the so-called independence movement covets is a path to power.
The whole idea around the endeavor into electoral politics actually comes out of the framework which was originated in contemporary times by the Republic of New Africa (RNA). And their idea was again organizing in the Black belt South, their particular focus area was the western portion of Mississippi, coming down out of the delta from Tennessee, Arkansas, all the way down to the western portion which is the MS delta going all the way to Claiborne County. Again, all of those counties are contiguous through Tennessee, Arkansas, MS, and the majority of those counties’ populations are Black folks. The RNA and their theoreticians understood and studied that this is where Black people were and that if organized correctly, it can make a huge impact towards moving towards self-determination. The idea in their organization was to take to elected offices in those areas. The circuit clerk, county clerk rather, and the Sheriff's dept. Then and now, if you control the county clerk and the Sheriff dept. of any county in MS, you control the county. The county clerk's office is where all of the land is recorded, and of course, the Sheriff's office is the law enforcement. Again, historically and even to this day, if you control those two offices, you control the county.Bakari and his cohorts entertained several options.
Black folk want to create an independent nation of self-governing Black people within the American empire, or Black people want to integrate into the existing structure and try to reform America within the existing structure, or Black people want to repatriate back to Africa or other areas of the globe where black people were in the majority. ..Next up is the Jackson Kush Plan and how these groups selected Chokwe the Elder to run for City Council in 2009. Why Jackson, one asks?
Coming out of those ideological conferences, studying Jackson, roughly with a population of 200,000 people, 85% of which were Black people; studying budgets of city budgets anywhere from 450-500 million dollars in any given year, a school district that is 97% Black with a budget of roughly 255 million dollars, sitting in a county that is 76% Black whose budget is roughly 120 million dollars. If you add that money up, it is right up to billion dollars. All of that is funded by majority Black people who get less than 5% of its benefit.Pie in the sky, stuff, right? However, the computer whiz spills the beans on the financial path for his putsch fantasies.
This model called the Jackson Kush plan is how we are trying to implement. Again, this is not romantic, it is not glamorous, it will not happen overnight, you cannot build any co-operative of the backs of philanthropic or foundational grants. You may be able to start there, but you have to build an independent economic model that is based on sound business principles in order for it to function.It doesn't take a genius to figure out what that economic model is: good ole fashioned government contracts to the favored few such as $600,000 a year for ten years for IT services on a garbage contract. Bakari discusses how the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement uses children's camps to indoctrinate the young. The interviewer asks him to talk about the "children's component of MXGM." Mr. Bakari replies:
There is the New African People’s Organization. One of the institutions it built is called the New African Scouts and New African Panthers. There are some similarities around some of the training with the boy scouts in that you train in urban and rural survival skills, camping, sustainability in the rural, but we take it a step further. There are physical fitness and self-defense, and there is cultural and revolutionary education component. That’s essential to giving our young people the idea of what they are supposed to be doing as they matriculate and grow into adulthood. .... Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba came through the scouts, a young Rukia Lumumba came through the scouts, there are others in Atlanta, in the Bay Area and in D.C....
The Surdna Foundation awarded a $1.2 million grant in 2020 to the Jackson Arts Council and Community Aid & Development Corporation. The corporation operates the New African children's camps mentioned in the interview. The CEO of the organization is Watani Tyehimba, one of the founding members of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
Hmmm..... this interview might explain why the Mayor always leaves the room during the Pledge of Allegiance. Would reciting the pledge break an oath?
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I wish I owned a company in Jackson that sells “For Sale” signs for houses.
The City Council is well familiar with the crony and his business.
https://www.northsidesun.com/sites/default/files/2022-02/Main%20Complaint%20Express%20Professional%20services.pdf
Excellent work tying all these people together and laying out what's really going on in Jackson. KF called it what it is: "secessionist."
7% of the contract to Lumumba's people looks a whole lot like a tax. It's like a sales tax for government service contracts, with the proceeds funding the Black Nationalist movement.
What’s novel about this? Every government contract has money set aside for donors and friends.
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/mar/04/siemens-settlement-explained/
This is an amazing piece of joirnalism.
WLBT, WAPT, WJTV better report on this. Surely they all read this site.
Hopefully the Mayor and former Governor are being investigated by the authorities and at a quicker pace than what the Biden family is.
Rumor is a city council member is also up to some sketch behavior. Rumor is he or she has a taxpayer funded job where he or she does next to nothing.
Can someone talk Melvin into running for Mayor?
KF rocks, deserves Anna Wolfe's Pulitzer if he assists Mayor L'Umbrella to destroy himself, or at least dive deeper into political hospice. And New Afrikan Black Apartheid? OK in Liberia, but NIMBY, not in USA.
BTW, which legal entity with subpoena power provides oversight on the mayor?
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/feb/19/state-auditor-looking-city-contract-flooding-water/
No wonder the mayor flees the room whenever the Pledge of Allegiance is recited.
The Post Office Box used by Expert Professional Solutions (sub-contractor for RDI) on the Secretary of State's website is the same mailbox used by the Jackson Chapter of Free the Land movement. If you were wondering, it is PO Box 16051 in Jackson. Check the secretary of state site for the business (Expert Professional Solutions) and look at Willie Webster's PO Box. Then go to https://freethelandmxgm.org/jackson-chapter/ and look at their PO Box. Just silly at this point.
Did any of that babble include freeing themselves from the burdens of accepting tax payer money from about 1,000 programs they've milked for decades ? Asking for a friend.
May 11, 2023 at 11:47 AM - yep...SHE does!
An IT guy has to HANDWRITE a document?
$610k for an existing company with existing IT infrastructure to expand into one (1) new city? Come on. Where are the feds? Somebody do something!
But, but…. But PHIl?????
$600,000 a year for IT services ? For a garbage company ? For only serving the Jackson area ? Good Lord, what a rip off....or scam.
The Mayor says he's trying to get the cheapest price for Jackson residents, right ? Well, apparently he's not if the contractor is charging $600,000 a year for IT services.
I wonder how much Richards spends on IT services each year for its New Orleans operations ? Or how much Waste Management charged for its IT services for the Jackson area pickup. I'd be willing to be neither of them charges or spent $600,000 a year. Does Richards really need $600,000 a year for IT services for just Jackson alone ?
I’ll bet not even the eminent DR. Omari can pronounce all those names.
KF, you are usually pretty early. You are running late on this one. This is one of the main reasons why the council split in the first place.
This has to fall somewhere under the AG's jurisdiction.
@11:05
Did the City ever recoup the $100,000?
How much is the "big guy's" commission?
With 1:02pm - How much is getting kicked back to Jokeway?
This is why the mayor is so adamant for Richards. They’ll let him siphon money from the contract whereas Waste Management wouldn’t touch it and probably turn him over. Tell me I’m wrong…
Maybe that explains why the mayor tried so hard to steer the contract. I would assume that Waste Management has its own IT department.
What sound business principals? Fraud?
May 11, 2023 at 11:25 AM
Donnerkay is a known Lumumba shill.
Can anyone even imagine what Jackson will be like if they're successful at running all the white people out?
Do you now see why Shock-Way fought so hard?
"Equal Business Opportunity Plan Application" - I'm sure that there was a long list of applicants that they had to choose from, right?
Garbage contractors do indeed need IT resources. You need a laptop that may cost $1,500. You need internet service at $100 per month for ten years, so that's another $12,000. You need $40,000 per year for somebody to monitor the routes on the laptop, so that's another $400,000 over ten years. And you need $5,586,500 to pay that guy's boss.
As long as there are no consequences this type of malfeasance will continue. Moral outrage is fine and we can all get that warm and fuzzy feeling of damning corruption. When is someone going to jail for this shit?
I was at the bank recently when Chockwe strolled in and loudly said he needed cash for a trip out of the country. I wished that he, like Elizabeth Holmes,had purchased a one way ticket.
"Hey, Anna Wolfe, hold my beer and watch this!" says Kingfish....
Great work Kingfish! Thank you!
If we were a serious country these Communists ripping taxpayers off would never see the light of day again except from behind a metal bar window. Instead, he/they gets to make himself/themselves rich off of an already poor tax base. How much of that 600k does the Communist Mayor get?
The insulting part of all this is not that Chokwe and his cadre still entertain the Black separatist pipe dream of dividing counties and states from the U.S. to form a socialist state, but that they won't tell the whole truth to those gullible Black residents whose futures they will sacrifice. They are so arrogant they know what is best for the masses but keep it on the down low, lest the suckers find out about their plans and get the hell out before the
S...t hits the fan. But then again, it looks like the exodus has already begun. Has it already hit the fan?
2:21: Yeah, this and the garbage cart contract, kicked up to the forefathers in Detroit.
"There is the New African People’s Organization. One of the institutions it built is called the New African Scouts and New African Panthers. There are some similarities around some of the training with the boy scouts in that you train in urban and rural survival skills, camping, sustainability in the rural, but we take it a step further. There are physical fitness and self-defense, and there is cultural and revolutionary education component. That’s essential to giving our young people the idea of what they are supposed to be doing as they matriculate and grow into adulthood. ...."
Similar to the Hitler Youth Program.
Next solicitation for bids should clearly state BYOIT
So this is the real reason Hizzoner and Company doesn't want HB1020 to happen because it takes a chunk right out the middle of his New Afrika kingdom.
White folk in high dudgeon. Again. B effin' D.
3:42, Your obvious bigotry aside, what about all the black people who live in Jackson and are getting screwed and go without decent public education and basic services? I suppose it’s all for their own good, right?
Why is a evil to be a white separatist but a virtue to be a black separatist?
3:42PM
Want to try that again in english?
4:26, the Jackson voters elected the current "leaders". If they don't like what they are doing, they have an upcoming opportunity to fire them. In the meantime, any assistance from outsiders will be labeled as racist.
@12:46 - Unless you and Kingfish missed it, the Blessed Dr. Omari is among those named as office holders in the cult.
From the text: "The founding members of MXGM are all of the above members and Akmed Obafemi and Safiya Omari."
Great reporting Kingfish. I’m a Democrat and I thinks it’s awful how much a pass mayor gets from traditional media. People should listen to Kenny Stokes when talking about mayor.
Once what's left of the middle class leaves Jackson, the poverty stricken residents who can't afford to leave will be raped unmercifully by this Communist mayor and his minions:
High taxes
High fees
High crime
Dangerous streets
Uneducated youth
No water
No sewer
No law enforcement
Dilapidated infrastructure
None of the public services they are paying so dearly for.
It's shocking to think how much worse it can and will get. This mayor should be in prison for what he's done to this city.
They say this cat Antar is a complicated man, no understands him
That's how he paying for his sister campaign with tax payers money. This why he never presented another contract.
@12:56, that’s adorable. You expect that woman to have the brains to investigate anything? Cute. Real cute.
May 11, 2023 at 5:12 PM
They're already trapped. A wife's coworker owns a house in west jackson can't move because she doesn't make enough money and her house isn't worth enough.
It’s insane how our bottom of the barrel, local “news” channels won’t report on any of this. Glad there’s at least one place you can be informed on the reason for this long drawn out garbage contract ordeal. Makes total sense now. New Afrika is why Jackson residents couldn’t get garbage picked up for weeks.
All cash flow leads to Detroit, and to the "big guy."
Remember to look up those who supported his campaign. Lots of bleeding heart white liberals. Find their names and hold them accountable for perpetuating this scheme. That’s the only way you’ll help solve this. Look at your attorneys, real estate moguls, and restaurant owners in Belhaven and Fondren for the list. #blessem
So that's why he wants Richard's so bad. It's not a kickback from Richard's it's his radical friend gettin 600k a year. What do you bet he gives a litte to the mayor also as gift for helping him out. What a fraud
What I fail to understand just from a nuts and bolts standpoint is, this is very obvious corruption, yet ........no one who "legislates" us seems to care
Not approving your comment. This website published a list of all of his donors. You can use that one, not a link to a competitor's website.
Thanks Kingfish. You really are very good at this.
KF There's a competitor?
where is your list?
Seems like they could use some RICO action to try to take down this group. I'm sure the grift is spread between many other cities as well that are connected to these scam artists.
I only saw two Belhaven addresses on the list from Kingfish’s old article for people that donated to the Mayors campaign. Plus Kate and Belhaven Residential in the Heights.
Way to try and make Belhaven sound like California.
Katz, not Kate*
10:51 business addresses aren't typically residence addresses to which the gifts come from. Many of them used a PO BOX or their business address.
Simply unbelievable.
Please talk, Keisha, please talk.
Based on hard-dollar yield contractor's math, the best plan is to donate a big ole bucket of scratch to the right candidates, then standby with those 9th grade looking bids, and Travel Guide magazine.
This is TREASON. It is what it is.
I’m sending this article to the FBI
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