Thursday, June 25, 2026

Flashback

This post was first published on September 19, 2014 (Damn, already 12 years?) 

Call it the Chokwe Lumumba dress code. This little picture was taken yesterday at the work session of the Board of Commissioners for the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority.





Everyone in the room is wearing suits.  Business attire.  Representatives of the search firm retained to find a new CEO are present.  What does Commissioner Reverend Stallworth (Lumumba appointee) wear? Warmups.  Apologies for the poor picture quality as one shot was not focused.

Posted by Kingfish at 11:30 AM

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well it’s Jackson. What do you expect

June 25, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Anonymous said...

He tried to purchase a business suit using his EBT card but it was denied. So sad.

June 25, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Anonymous said...

This is the same reason Spirit Airlines is out of business today.

June 25, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Anonymous said...

I was always thankful for Spirit Airlines.

The bottom dollar carrier serves more than just people needing the cheapest flight.

Sometimes I would walk past Spirit gates and give thanks that some of those folks were at the Spirit gates rather than at the Southwest or United gates, much less on my flight.

June 25, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Anonymous said...

We need as many reverends as we can get on our airport board--

June 25, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Anonymous said...

Who does he think he is? Elon Musk? Move on.

June 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Anonymous said...

I thought he was wearing a hazmat suit. Thanks for clarifying.

June 25, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Anonymous said...

Slap me silly!

I thought he was wearing a white dashiki like some of the best dressed brothers sometimes do.

June 25, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Anonymous said...

1:47 for the win.

June 25, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Anonymous said...

Didn’t a councilman show up to a meeting wearing cutoffs and flip-flops?

June 25, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Anonymous said...

Google Commissioner Reverend Stallworth. Read the AI overview. The internet never forgets.

June 25, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Anonymous said...

Dressed for success in Jackistan. Gotta move, gotta move.

June 25, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Anonymous said...

And in typical fashion, the city is trying to portray the lawsuit about the airport as just racism. The question is whether the law that was passed changing the board makeup is legal. The appeals court has weighed in on this, but the judge hearing the suit has such a racial bias in his rulings you can expect the appeals court to make the final decision.

June 25, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Anonymous said...

Clean shirt, new shooz
And I don't know wheres I'm goin' to

Silk suitz, black tiez...
Antar don't needz no reason why

They come running jes as fast as dey can ...
Cawz every hoe's crazy bout' da shawp-dressed main

June 25, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Anonymous said...

Daddy chill! He bought that at the Paris Air Show with some of his daily travel stipend.

June 26, 2026 at 8:08 AM

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