Jackson Jambalaya

That's Badger from Breaking Bad

So many questions…..

His video for Wingfield, my alma mater popped up this weekend, surprisingly still in good shape and seemingly free of destruction,

I graduated junior high school here in the early 80's when it was a model school, very sad. Unfortunately this not the only site of my youth that is in ruins..

Sad on so many levels.

He sounds just like Forrest Gump.
Jackson can’t be expected to clean up their messes. Because… Jackson.

@3:11 because New Horizon Church owns it

South Jackson is gone. I feel bad but the whole area should just be bulldozed. It is worse than a third world country

2:50 LMAO great comparison

Remember when a charter school tried to buy a couple of JPS's closed schools, but JPS decided they would rather they sit and rot in those communities instead of letting parent's have a choice of where to send their kids to school? Pepe remembers.

imagine the smell. like BO and harbor freight tools

This guy is your average Pearl resident and you Rankin Countians love to shit on Jackson. Lol.

What waste. A lot of the materials inside could be repurposed...so could the building. Government has no respect for a taxpayer's money.

Shoot the messenger!

Never fails to have a commenter insulting one county against another county or city against another city in the metro area. If one loses we all lose.

I went there in 92-93, I think that was the nicest school I went to in the Jackson area. Sad to see it like that.

“imagine the smell. like BO and harbor freight tools” What do Harbor Freight tools smell like? Lame ass weirdo comment

As they should.

5:52 when it is a CONSTANT barrage of anti-Jackson comments on this site, we can chirp back every now and then. So many people that insult Jackson all the time lump all of us in with the animals in this town, and we could not be further apart. Some of us are trying as hard as we can to fix things and still get made fun of by worthless asshats on this site.

Hell no! If you bulldoze it the vermin will flee to another area and then destroy it. Let them live in their squalor! That's what they want.

7:30 The animals are currently winning. Problems within Jackson can be solved. Being nice and allowing politicians to correct issues which they created will never work. The whole system is FUBAR,
and will not improve until the citizens truly demand it.

7:30p If there was even a sliver of hope for our former Jackson you might get some consideration. But way too bad/too far gone... you're on the bus with a very mixed company... and they're not gettin' off!

I bet JPS spends a fortune on desks lockers and chair yearly which my property tax goes to pay for. this is a disgrace.

The WNBA has a better chance of achieving success than the city of Jackson…..

Right on, they did’nt even try to salvage usable parts before abandoning the building… Looks like somebody on section 8 was gettin oughta der

Maybe Tina Clay could get some kind of grant and refurbish Siwell into a huge Homeless Shelter in her district…compassion starts at home

The whole city is pretty much gone. I grew up in the very NE corner of Jackson., It's ghetto now.

Surprised some of 'the locals' didn't pop out of a doorway and put a whuppin' on his wt head.

Sadly, one must agree with 6:45.

At some point it becomes apparent that the people trying to fix things are either incompetent or ineffective.

I started the first grade at Siwell Elementary School in 1960. We lived in a nice house that my parents built on Wheatley Street and my older brother and I walked to school every day. Back then, south Jackson was a good and safe place for young families and the school was good. We moved from there during Christmas break that year, and I haven't driven through that area in decades.

The narrator sounds like he has brain damage, bless his heart.

Some in Jackson would harvest kidneys outta bodies in the parking lots and ditches where they lie, if they can learn how to locate those organs and get them out fresh and into a foam box with chill packs. 3rd world survival.

@10:27PM, That is not Tina’s district.

Its so sad that liberals allowed Jackson to become this, in the name of virtue signaling.
Rather than stand up to the corruption when it began, they labeled educated conservatives who spoke up as racist for merely asserting that the minorities in charge were in over their heads.
People who dared point out that business were being destroyed by crime and homelessness were told to shut up. So they did. And they left.

And as much as I sincerely want Jackson to improve, I cant afford private schools on top of the insane taxes and unpainted roads with non working street lights. Its not safe or practical for me.

So I can't vote you out of this mess.

And the ones like 7:30 who mean well, have no idea what it was like to lose the city you grew up in to this lunacy. My advice, stop being offended at mean comments. Find a relatively decent with an average IQ/candidate for every office possible and get someone with a brain elected.

You are vastly outnumbered, but I do wish you luck from my safe community.

The twist doing this video gives me the heeeebs . Never sleep belly down around this one folks.

I’m glad all the white assholes left Jackson and I hope they stay out. They are just mad cause they are outnumbered and can’t run the city like they used to. So they move to Madison and bitch about everything! You never hear people bitching about Rankin county and the white trash over there. Why not? Cause they are white and not black.

10:58 You are not as glad as we WA’s are, prayers up for Jackson!

Go look at the old Flora High School if you want to talk rot. Doors are wide open. Oh my bad it's in Madison County so we don't talk about that.

Nobody cared about education in Mississippi until we were forced to integrate in 1971. 16 years after Brwon vs Board. And then all the white kids started going to the academies. Then everyone started complaining about public education because mostly ooor black kids go to public schools. The elected officials don’t want to upgrade the facilities or buy black kids new books. Black kids always got white hand me downs nothing was ever new. White people wanna bitch about what’s taught in public schools because they want kids to believe a different America than what it really was compared to how they want it to be!

Just FYI - Jackson got the way it is because all of y’all left. Yes you read that right. You know good and well you could have been fine living here. You have a patriotic duty to support your city and community and be a steward of it. Your leaving left a void that the animals filled. Jackson is a small city and if any of you had any courage to stay your votes would have outnumbered the Lumumba/Yarber/Lumumba elections. It is your fault. The animals are the animals. They exist in every city. Most big cities have way more animals than Jackson. It is your duty as an American to make sure they don’t assume power and take over the city.

"The elected officials don’t want to upgrade the facilities or buy black kids new books"
That theory works for the white elected officials, but what is Chokwe and Bennie's excuse for not buying the books?

I think you are pointing out specks and ignoring planks.

Only 10% of the population elected Lumumbles both times. Blaming the people (both black and white) who left fearing for their property values and their lives, is just pissing up a rope. You have to blame the citizens still living in the city -- they're the ones who should have a vested interest.

5:25 you are proving my point. It only took a a small portion of the city to elect Lumumba. If so many people had not left it wouldn’t have happened. And it just proves that a small population inflow to Jackson could change everything.

5:25- 6:32 is a troll or most likely an actual citizen of Jackson. I’d put money on the second choice…

Why would anyone with good sense live in Jackson when there are so many places much better? The people left when Jackson became a third world city. The people who stayed are the people to blame for the condition of Jackson. They are the ones who made the cith into a dump. They are the ones who elected crooks and idiots. Don't blame the people who left Jackson. Blame the people still living there.