Jackson Jambalaya

No thanks.

I’ll stay out where there is running clean water we pay for based on a meter. Oh, and where someone will answer 911 if I need it.

Hard pass.

Hasn’t the water been very free for a long time already? Which is why there is no money.

I know there will be clowns, but will there be cotton candy?

Darn. I'll be at work.

What does that even mean? Will be like a Simpsons episode with people showing up with pitchforks and torches to protest something and have no reason what they're protesting. SMH.

or "all of it for free"

Dr. Johnson looks like he should be saying "I pity the fool"

"Doctor Umar"? PHD in Fashion.

I understand the "Free the Water," but exactly what LAND are they wanting to free? And from whom?

A joke, right?

Something for free - that's all these people want.

Pictures for the TV Newsers. Nothing more and nothing that's going to sway the legislature.

Thank goodness for booking a DJ on Friday afternoon!

Do not laugh for this has worked may years and will again.

Yep Just when Jackson had a glimpse of Hope. The Senate will roll over. If Delbert whimps out rolls over on this , I'm becoming a Mcdaniel man. This is a deal breaker

Dude is from Philadelphia. Not Philadelphia, MS, the real one. All the buzzards are circling just looking to get in on the act. Just Google Dumar Johnson. And then go watch Idiocracy.

How do you become a Doctor in “free stuff” I want to know???!!! Freeology.

Some groups of people thrive on constant outrage.

Dr Umar Frowny Face is gonna tell you like it is!

Free the Capitol from Jackson!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Johnson

Just googled his name cost $5000-$10000 to book. Is he going to walk the streets talking to the kids about the water and the land?

I think the tax paying citizens in Jackson would love to hear him help the Mayor solve the crime epidemic.

Waste of time. The national news will be around Super Bowl this week. Next week would be better;. They need a better slogan.

To 3:15
Free the land was a phrase used by Lumumba senior. My understanding was that his impression was that he and all former slaves were due 40 acres and a mule. So they wanted a portion of the southeast (Louisiana, MS, AL, Georgia and South Carolina) dedicated to black families and wanted to form another country called the Republic of new Afrika.

You know what? This is some real stupid unnecessary shigity. The Mayor is way off track. I guess the money has to go somewhere, just pay him the $5000-$10,000 fee to uplift the people.

This money really could have went to something the citizens of Jackson really needed. Councilman Stokes you have any ideas?

Chief Davis I know you are shaking your head, the Police tied up in this nonsense while short on personnel. Well I’ll go back to looking at SWAT on TV.

Power to the People

The Mayor has no shame, where is the money coming from to pay this gentleman?

I’m guessing Sen Michel won’t be in attendance??

Umar Johnson's wikipedia page is fire.

Last time I checked the water is free but you have to get a state-issued permit to withdraw it from the river.

Land ain't free, no matter what they're driving at.

You kidding me. Sure ole Chuck will be there with his racism for all to see. Getting tired of Chuck and his new world order. He will not be happy till every white skin American is out of Jackson.

The website makes sense. Why is the state getting involved at all? This is a bad look for Mississippi. The mayor should have control over all federal funds to fix Jackson. After the mess with the football guy, why should the state be in control of any of these funds. Let Jackson fix Jackson. I fully support the petition.

2:33 - for the win.

8:29 - I need some of what you are smoking.

@8:29 did you put down your sign to post your comment or did you contribute to the good Dr.'s expenses?

Can we please get the CCID's area enlarged?

@453 - as much as it pains me to say this, I agree with you. I don't think it is going to happen, but if it does..

If the Senate rolls over and doesn't pass through a bill on the Judges, and on the Utility District, then I will (cough, cough, don't know how to say this) be on the McDaniel bus.

Granted, they can pass their own version - let it go to conference. Bring out a bill from conference that addresses these basic concepts and keeps the reality in it. Otherwise, it will show a complete lack of backbone in the Senate leadership - and that starts with Delbert.

Again, I have faith that the Senate will address both of these bills appropriately; pass out a bill that will end up in conference. And the conference report will not cave to the minority just because the leaders are "afraid". But - the message when members left the Capitol this morning was not good; some of the 'leaders' worried about the blood on the floor and wanting it wiped up before it got deeper. God willing, those that want to avoid confrontation, and that might well include Delbert, will grow a little more steel in his backbone over the weekend.

@8:29 you ain't from around here are you?

I'm sorry Mr. 8:29 PM. The over $600 million of federal funds is in the control of a Receiver; the city has no control over those dollars (nor does or will the state) based on the EPA going to FEDERAL court and telling a FEDERAL judge that the city has failed for years to properly manage the water system. The EPA (yes, that is the EPA under the Biden Administration) told a federal judge that the city has failed, and is incompetent, to run the system. The federal judge, on the recommendation of the US EPA, appointed an individual as the Receiver that has absolute and total control over the expenditure of the federal dollars that were almost simultaniously being appropriated to give the system (not Jackson, but the system) $600 million.

The state does not, will not, and no way will have control over those dollars. Yes, you can listen to and believe the folks that scream racist every other word, claiming that the state is trying to take control of those dollars. But the statute being proposed has specific language that says differently. And the appropriation bill that provided those dollars says that they must all be spent on the water system that is presently served by Jackson.

And - your funny statement of "let Jackson fix Jackson" almost caused me to gag my coffee. Jackson, under its current leadership has proven that it cannot fix anything. It doesn't pay its vendors even when trying to fix anything. Jackson has failed in every area: Zoo? A disaster and despite all the claims, still not operating under those contract managers that Chockwe was bringing in; and out of USDA compliance AGAIN; the water system - EPA in court saying they have failed for years to comply with many different orders, decrees, and every other form of notification; the sewer system under a consent decree for ten years now and no improvements being made.

Now lets go to the physically obvious - streets? Potholed filled, two machines purchased to fix them and they are not operative; nothing being done, no money being spent. Bridges - a dozen closed due to failure, and several for more than two years with no action. Sewer overflows - hundreds multiple times a month, creating daily fines from the EPA. Sewer overflows at the treatment plant and on its way - dumping millions of gallons of raw, untreated sewage into the Pearl River. Water treatment plant - no certified operators, no maintenance, no replacement of broken parts for years, absolute failure requiring eventually the state takeover and repair/replacement.

What is working where "Jackson fix Jackson"? Not in the police department when we are having the highest homicide rate in the country (not Mississippi - the country) for two years running. Not water. Not sewer. Not police. Not roads. Not bridges. So - you tell us, how is Jackson going to fix Jackson?

Knowing you won't, or can't, respond - go right ahead and support this meaningless petition.

@8:29 Football guy? Yes prime time took all our players to Colorado! It sucks.

Paltry turnout. No surprise.

Give the participants free water from Jackson, and see if they'll Drink It !!!

@8:29
Your hilarious
There is no way you’re being serious in this post. It’s comical or you’re just a true idiot. I’m a NE Jackson resident and I can tell you many jacksonians do not want the mayor in charge of water or funds.

@10:01 you nailed it politely courteously & tactfully. Great response

I thought this was some kind of parody. If you flip his first name, it is ram U Johnson. But I think this may be legit.

Only 24 marched to demand Jackson itself control federal funds. Tens of thousands of others are ready for outside management of the city.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. Don't get your panties in a bunch over this sideshow. These guys are the ultra-radical types who show up at civil rights events to get the attention they so badly crave. Attention not credibility. Even the mayor and Bennie are embarrassed by some of these guys. They represent nobody but themselves.

The EPA (yes, that is the EPA under the Biden Administration) told a federal judge that the city has failed, and is incompetent, to run the system.

This says it all.

Free the land and water from the current administration? I think we can all get on board with that! Maybe we should just go with “Free Jackson from Lumumba”. That about covers it….water, sewer, crime, roads/bridges, zoo, blight, etc.

@10:01 BRAVO! That is the best succinct summary of the cascade of mismanagement, inaction, and blame shifting I've read about chokie and this crap hole city swirling the drain.

Grand total of 10 people signed the petition. They were trying to get 100, they got TEN. Of course in Antard's world 10% is a commanding mandate.

Sorry I missed this. How was the turn out?

In the Black community they also have the guys with the tin foil hats. These are the guys. Note the turnout.

This is a play right out of the Republic of New Afrika Handbook that his dad and Bennie Thompson wrote. When Will the feds pin him for releasing sewage into the Pearl and affecting everyone from south of Jackson to the fishing industry? And the State Department issues warnings about traveling to Mexico but won’t say a word about our own urban areas where killings occurred daily and still do! And just recently another shooting occurred on McDowell. It’s a sewer itself. It wasn’t 30 years ago I’ll tell ya that much!

Thanks, 11:41. I kept thinking that someone would surely recall the Republic of New Afrika movement, which seems to shadow a lot of what is happening in Jackson, and finally I came to your comment.

"Free the Land" is a RONA trope. It would be nice if our mayor and other Black leaders would denounce any further notions of a Black Republic in the southern states. I have the notion that the mayor's father had abandoned such radical ideas.

Did Bennie Thompson support the Republic of New Afrika movement alongside Lubumbah Sr.?

Meanwhile, sundown is befalling the Metro and Kingfish is kicked back in his hammock, enjoying a gin and tonic, smiling at the responses of you fools. His job here is done.

Promise made, promise kept.

Lumamma promised not the most radical, but the most irascible city on the planet: you mad, you shoot; you don't got, you take; you can't fix, you break. And like that.

@11:41 - But it keeps this blog afloat.

Free the black man’s mindset of “it’s always someone else’s fault” and maybe real change could happen.

@3:33 , Thompson did support Sr. There is plenty of information out there on Thompson and this subject. You have to keep in mind that there were JPD officers killed during a raid at JSU of a member that was a very close cohort of Sr and Thompson. Here is one report https://noqreport.com/2021/11/15/revealed-jan-6-commission-chairman-bennie-thompson-backed-extremist-secessionist-group-seeking-violent-u-s-takeover/

Check this brother's Wikipedia page.
Just another civil rights con artist. Funny how missing money keeps following these guys around isn't it.