Jackson Jambalaya

If they don't honor the sewage crisis and the garbage crisis that would be discrimination, right?

Wait we're CELEBRATING this momentous event in perpetuity now?

What is the money get here?

What?!?!

Paying for it how exactly? Also, what is a "pre-k scholar"?

Somebody, somehow, is making money off of this!

Is this real? Shows you just how far this admin is out of touch. Plus they are sabotaging water hydrants.

Chockwe A. Lumumba - Honoring failure and dodging responsibility since 2016.

LOL Lumumba is too stupid for his own good. Remember when he touted, "When you lose control over the water, you lose control over the City?" Remember that?

Now he's burying a TIME CAPSULE to memorialize this failure!?

When the only thing you can find to celebrate is a crisis-

This is silly.

Reeves and Hennefin weren't invited.

This is how you properly gaslight people!
Lumumba is solely responsible for the crisis.
And he will repeat the lie that this was caused by external forces
Oh and the time capsule is likely filled with MSM new articles that parrot his revisionist history too!

Institutionalizing victimhood in the minds of children and the civil right to self-destruction.

Only in the delusional mind that is Chokwe would a tragic event be commemorated and capitalized for political gain. On second thought, he can't even zip his trousers without permission from Safiya...

File this story under "NOT the Babylon Bee"

You've got to be F'ing kidding me? They are celebrating the (made up) water crisis anniversary? Remember kids, this was all about your mayor's ineptness and nothing about flooding. I guess next we will celebrate the trash in the street because of your mayor's made-up crisis to install his friend as the garbage collector.?

Idiots... no one is Jackson is worried about beautifying anything.

Vicki Conley, principal, Dawson Elementary School
Dr. Tanya Mason, principal, Capital City Alternative School

Kudos to these ladies & their support staff for providing direction to the students under their care.

"...as part of a series of month-long events to reflect on Jackson’s water crisis anniversary."

So we are having a month long "celebration" honoring mismanagement? You cannot make this stuff up! They will do literally anything for a tax payor funded celebration. What are they going to do, play hide and seek "we forgot to order the parts"? What about pin the tail on the plant operator? Wait...

Can we get a parade on the anniversary of the equipment fire at OB Curtis water plant? Can we have a school holiday to celebrate the trash pickup contract signing? I mean if you don’t celebrate your failures…. :facepalm

The clown Grizzell who gets paid full time at JPS but does nothing in his job.

As the manager of a water utility who sent workers to help get OB Curtis operating again, I would settle for a simple thank you from the mayor or a city councilman. Just one simply "thank you" would be nice.

One thing you can say:

NO SHAME IN THEIR GAME!

Why isn't Lumumba and the City seeking volunteers to clean up raw sewage discharge sites?

Comedy or insanity?

Even if you created it, never let a crisis go to waste, right?

OG Saturday Night Live could have hit this out of the park.

Do you have Richard Pryor play the mayor? Eddie murphy?

Kingfish, I sure hope you are there to cover this event.

Does JSU offer a public health engineering or wastewater engineering emphasis in their Engineering program? You think they would considering the campus placement smack dab in the middle of a giant real-life city-scale public sewerage laboratory. Henifin could offer those grads internships and jobs without the young professionals having to pay any sort of fealty premium to Mayor Dirt Clod in order to get the job.

Happy Water Crisiversary Jackson!
Maybe you can all dress up like used toilet paper and toss turbids to celebrate!

It is difficult to fathom that Mayor Lumumba, and his advisors thought this was a good idea. However, based on previous decisions indicative of their tone deafness, incompetence and general lack of knowledge and good judgement, perhaps not. Sad.

Seems like a political event on the eve of Sista Rukia's runoff.

When is the RAW BOOBOO celebration?

@ 2:00 PM - JSU has a Civil Engineering program that might lend itself to the infrastructure issues.

So, what do they say when they open this time capsule in 2035?
- "It was 2023 when Jackson hit rock bottom"?
- "2023 is when we decided to move the capital to Natchez"?
- ...?

This will be one of the only “Day of Action” days this joke mayor has had. Plenty of days of inaction though.
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They are reflecting on the water crisis. Maybe we can celebrate if we make it through this winter without the city shutting down for 2 weeks because of broken pipes. Trust me you know it's coming.

They are celebrating having someone else pay to restore water service. Of course the celebration
is being paid by someone else too. Grifters one and all.

Is a statue commemorating the one that lead Jackson out of a waterless bondage soon to follow? Surely the one that broke the shackles of dry faucets will be memorialized? The great Chokealot deserves his adoration.

@3:14, JSU has a CE program that is questionable at best. I interviewed some of their MSCE graduates who didn't even have very basic undergraduate engineering courses. It appeared to me to be a sham school. I no longer even consider engineering applicants with JSU degrees - their applications go straight to the round file.

1. They are STUDENTS, not scholars.
2. They should be thanking Tate Reeves and the State for jumping in and fixing the issues last fall/winter.
3. They should be thanking Ted Henefin for coming in taking over the water system.

Typical reaction in a Democrat run "city",

Much of marxist "critical" theory is meant to undermine common sense, traditional families, Classical Religion, rights of individuals, and fact based science to advance chaos, race war, class war and worshiping the state as God. In this light our little despot enslaved innocent children to mark his "historicsl" outrage at having authority stripped from him for his deceit and ineptitude, as if he was down for the struggle of the wretched against their oppressors.

The question I have is : Are taxpayers footing the bill for this utter and absolute b.s.? Dear Jackson, when will y'all get enough ? Lumumba(fathers family name is actually Taliaferro, which tells you everything) is balls deep in this city and has reamed it.

Joke mayor joke celebrations. But aint nobody laughin'.

Calling them scholars is analogous to "everyone wins a trophy." Psychobabble coming from the PhD/EdD crowd!

What the actual f&ck?

Y'all ought to take a look at the out of state money pouring into Rukia's latest campaign finance report as well the mysterious late $25,000 infusion into the 'Friends to Elect Rukia Lumumba' PAC -- the ONLY money reported by the PAC this year -- that does not report the contributor of the funds. Also note how the ratio of Rukia's itemized:non-itemized contributions has suddenly changed.

When is the RAW BOOBOO celebration?
August 22, 2023 at 3:00 PM

I read this thinking, "IS THIS A F-ING JOKE???!" but 3:00 pm added a moment of levity. Thank you for that. I was just about to lose my temper.

The gall of this "mayor" is the only thing surpassing his stupidity.
He is amazingly arrogant yet incompetent... all at the same time. He needs to be thrown out on.his.ass in the next election.
I'm voting for

ANYONE BUT LUMUMBA

Please join me.

This is like a Major League Baseball team having an anniversary celebration to congratulate themselves for finishing the season with a record of 0-162.

Those named as being in leadership positions over their scholar/charges must remember to thank Governor Bryant for not having the balls to place JPS under the immediate supervision of SDE when he had the chance (read obligation).

Each of them is lucky to still be in the PERS pipeline.

I would like to make a motion to honor the fifth anniversary of Councilman Stokes saying bricks and rocks should be tossed at incoming police from outlying municipalities.

I won't be here for the opening of the capsule...but I can hear Master of Ceremonies Richard Pryor now, "Peepul, we are gathered here today, to celebrate..."

Feel free to Google that one on Youtube.

@10:01 pm, your Anyone But Lamumba strategy is doomed to certain failure. Seventy to 75 percent, I will guesstimate, of the electorate will vote for Lamumba based on his race and the disapproval he elicits from white voters. Instead, make it the strategy of you and all white voters to praise Lamumba from the housetops unceasingly.

Your drone @8:37 is tired, old and stale. There was a time during his second term when Harvey Johnson was considered as politically unassailable.

I love this new PC directive of using the word scholar instead of student.

BTW, what is the current scholar drop out rate at JPS?

Kingfish, we both know that the word “honor” is no where in that press release—as in, they aren’t “honoring,” “celebrating,” or whatever leaps your readers might want to make about the event, based on your (apparently intentional) misleading headline.

But sure, you want clicks so get it the cheap way at the expense of your credibility.

"Seventy to 75 percent, I will guesstimate, of the electorate will vote for Lamumba..."

I'll give you two racks of short-ribs and a quart of tater salad if even 14% of the electorate shows up at the polls. And throw in a gallon of MD20-20.

11:04 AM, then what are they doing? The time capsule is to remind the future how the end began?

I left Jackson 24 years ago, and I understand the sentiment that will inevitably lead to another term for Chokwe. The garbage debacle and explosion in crime (held on to Davis too long) are his to own.

As far as the water fiasco, he was just the next man up. This would've happened to anyone that won those terms. Everyone knows that TANF Tate and Co. didn't want to get involved until the FEDs landed in their backyard. It's all fun and games until the story makes national headlines.

The beautiful thing about all of this no money goes to Chokwe and friends nor Tate and Co. Every dollar will be accounted for, and the issue will be resolved. If it gets resolved that is how Chokwe wins another term.

August 23, 2023 at 11:04 AM, well, what are they doing then? Explain yourself.