Thursday, October 6, 2022

We Are Strong!!!

 Check out the new street mural on High Street at Lamar Street.


Note: All right, I wrote JPD closed off the intersection.  Nope.  It was Capitol Poh-lice.  My fault .


44 comments:

Anonymous said...

Move asshole

Anonymous said...

... what would you prefer it say? "We are dead" "we are tired" "help us". Good grief. It's a mural hoping to boost morale in a city where bloggers and keyboard bullies spend most of their time tearing it down. Nothing is ever good enough. It's a mural. Not a volleyball stadium. Go have a cup of coffee and start your day over.

Anonymous said...

Lipstick (aka paint) on a pig.

Anonymous said...

Strong on crime and incompetence

Anonymous said...

I wont even be surprised if the artist got paid handsomely (up front) for this.
While utilities and safety are simply not a budgetary issue of concern to the leaders.

Calling them cartoonish priorities is an insult to cartoons at this point.

Anonymous said...

It will look even better after this coming weekend when multiple Dodge Chargers, Dodge Challengers, and Mustangs perform spinning burnouts on it. You heard it here first.

Anonymous said...

But we are strong! HaHa Ridiculousness

Anonymous said...

Just to say "Strong" is not to be so. Perhaps "Strong Mayor, Weak Council" form of government?

Indeed, wtf is "Strong" about Jackson? The busted streets and bridges, the odor of sewer leaks, the tendency for the Mayor to lie and obfuscate whilst kicking dirt over his pile of failures, the words of a racist political preacher in lock step with a worthless, whining mayor?

Anonymous said...

A little irony that Uackson is declaring itself 'strong' at this location. After batching and complaining about the state's refusal to give the city "what it deserves" to support its failing infrastructure - they make this declaration on a street the CCID (yes folks, the CCID is 100% state dollars) just spent millions to replace, including replacing the city's " strong" water and sewer lines.

Anonymous said...

Drove by it yesterday and today. Yesterday Capitol Police had the street blocked off. Doesn't really bother me. Things like this help create a sense of community.

Anonymous said...

Although I agree with the absurdity of constructing a mural while Jackson is in such shambles, Capitol Police were the ones leaning on cones while the "muralists" worked

Anonymous said...

"We are strong" on wokeness, political correctness, and government corruption and incompetence.

Anonymous said...

Not as terrible as you make it out to be.

Anonymous said...

Graffiti

Anonymous said...

@10:39:
No, it's pigressive propaganda writ large. Shoulda been signed by Mayor. Why such patently obvious, lying bullshit? Maybe Lil Choke adds the fake proclamation to his list of accomplishments at out of town seminars? Why fix the infrastructure when he can just write "fabulous" on it?

Anonymous said...

@10:39 i do agree we need to build the city up. Let's look at it through the lense of the desperate people of jackson. By painting the mural which looks good won't stop the killing and won't fix anything at the water plant. I think it serves the citizens better if we address those things first. Next i don't see any murals painted in south jackson. These are the people who need uplifting. It was done as more of a political statement because it was done right in front of the woolfolk building and other state buildings. The people in south jackson have no decent streets, sewage running in the yards, and their children are being killed. So yes painting a mural is nice but let's paint a mural in front of all the abadoned shopping centers, homes, and hotels that blight the southside of town.

Anonymous said...

I love that it’s painted at the intersection of a parking lot, a incompetent state agency, and 2 abandoned buildings. Jackson Strong!!!

Anonymous said...

Strong arm robbery is more like it

Anonymous said...

@10:39 I would have taken the planning, time, money, manpower,and resources used to paint the mural and used it elsewhere. Such as on crime, water/sewer, potholes, etc. But that's just me.

When your house is literally on fire, you don't spend time, money, and effort on putting pine straw in the flowerbed. Instead you grab a hose and start fighting the fire. Because if the house burns to the ground, nobody will give a crap how pretty your flowerbeds are.

It's indicative of people that can't see reality.

Anonymous said...

Gotta be strong to go without water.

Anonymous said...

FBI stronger.

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile Rome is burning, right?

Anonymous said...

Low achieving marxist Lumumba can't even succeed at faking Stalinism! Cheap stupid street graphic lie compared to psycho-art propaganda posters of Eastern Euro-communism. Lil Choke is a no-balz bolshevik.

Next we'll see "Delicious Water" on Jackson's public drinking fountains and water bills?

Attorneys here: please find a felony this boy mayor has committed in his ruination of Jackson, the only path of removing him early.

Anonymous said...

Not exactly on topic, but I have always wanted to go in that house in the picture. In the late 80' and 90's, I drove past it everyday on my way to work. In my asking about it, an older co worker called it a spite house, a term I had never heard. She said an older gentleman lived there and refused to sell despite the fact that everything around it had changed. It still appears to be kept up. It's just so curious to me.

Anonymous said...

I find it interesting that those doing this and on news claiming world is against Jackson are the people in the poorest part of town and not the tax base in NE Jackson. I guess common sense rules at the end of the day. These people
Are looney

Anonymous said...

The hate is strong on this thread

Anonymous said...

@12:26
So is the censorship. I don’t get why KF even bothers. His posts are so lame and the only comments that he will approve are all cringe boomer Facebook-safe milquetoast nonsense.

I guess Derrick Johnson really has him by the huevos.

Anonymous said...

Yes, the power of art.

It TOTALLY offsets the view of visitors to the fair city 2 1/2 blocks away of the old church with an entire floor of broken out windows, squatters lighting blunts in the frames, with crap stained bedsheets for curtains waving in the squalor as they crest High Street next to the Capitol. Yes, absolutely. It's the final piece in creating the Masterpiece, the Radical City.

Jackson is the World's Strongest Example of Civilizational Incompetence.

No mural needed; just arrive for 30 seconds or so. Then flee, in a serpentine fashion, if you want to live.

Anonymous said...

12:17 - I believe that house was built by the late Morris Lewis (or one of the Lewis family). The story I heard (which may or may not be true) was that the house was meant to be defensible in the event of civil unrest - brick construction and no windows on the first floor. The Hinds County Land Roll indicates the house was built in 1940, but that may have been an earlier structure that was torn down. This house looks like it was built in the 1960s - I know it was there when I came to college here in the 1970s.

Anonymous said...

It would be selfish to withhold contempt from this punk Mayor who begs for it.

Anonymous said...

The only smooth solid piece of pavement in Jackson large enough to handle that size graffiti….and the state is the one who paid for the resurfacing.

Anonymous said...

Thank you 12:17! Very interesting! Looked it up on the tax assessor's map. Its a funny little wedge of a parcel.

Anonymous said...

@11:38AM
Keep watching, flunkies

Anonymous said...

It's what's called a futile gesture. Whoever did it feels the need to do something but they also know that whatever they do does not work in the long run. So why not do something people can see even if it amounts to nothing?
Good job.

Anonymous said...

Why do so many people who post hear feel the need to use nicknames or slang for Jackson, Mayor Lamumba, and other state and local officials? It may have been funny the first 20 times, but now it is tiresome.

Anonymous said...

Looks like there’s room enough there to have it read “Jackson, Strong Smell” after the last truck of Richards heads south out of town Saturday.

Anonymous said...

Please tell me the City of Jackson (i.e., us taxpayers) did not pay for this.

Anonymous said...

Jackson Strong…SMELLING.

Hey Lumumba, you crap city is about to smell ALOT worse.

Anonymous said...

You call it nicknames, or slang, I call it descriptive analysis.

Anonymous said...

" Freeze your discarded boiled shrimp/crawfish shells"

May have been a more inspiring message to paint.

Don Drane said...

Meanwhile, Kingfish, it is a FACT that Canton's Mayor Truly stopped a city group from painting murals on buildings and gave his explanation as 'They are not down with the cause and don't represent the struggle'.

At least whoever paid for and painted THIS one is well meaning and positive.

Anonymous said...

I enjoy watching the jerks that ran me and my business out of Jackson fail harder as much as anyone, but I will agree that its a futile gesture that doesn't cause harm (at least after the streets were reopened to traffic).

And Don is right. At least its not some racist anti-white slogan like Truly most certainly wants.

Anonymous said...

WE ARE STRONG, but give us money to make sure we have drinking water. WE ARE STRONG, but we can't have to have other people pay our bills for us.

Anonymous said...

Maybe someone will get around to moving the barricades around the damn thing at some point. They were still there as of this morning.



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