Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Jackson to Honor Water Crisis Anniversary

 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

Scholars from Dawson Elementary School and Capital City Alternative School, community leaders, and elected officials will participate in a Citywide Day of Action as part of a series of month-long events to reflect on Jackson’s water crisis anniversary. The event will be at Dawson Elementary (4215 Sunset Dr, Jackson, MS), and volunteers from across Jackson will discuss the impact of a citywide cleanup of Percy V. Simpson Drive, one of the worst illegal dump sites in the City of Jackson, on Monday, August 28, 2023, at 12:00 pm.  

During the event, scholars and community leaders will bury a time capsule for the Dawson Elementary Pre-K scholars to unearth in 2035, with items highlighting the day of action and their commitment to beautifying their communities.

WHEN:
Monday, August 28, 2023, at 12:00 pm

WHERE:
4215 Sunset Drive
Jackson, Mississippi 39213

WHO:
  • Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba, City of Jackson
  • Councilmember Brian Grizzell, Ward 4, City of Jackson
  • Vicki Conley, principal, Dawson Elementary School
  • Dr. Tanya Mason, principal, Capital City Alternative School
  • Dionne Woody, assistant superintendent, Jackson Public Schools
  • Capital City Alternative School Scholar
  • Dawson Elementary Pre-K Scholar


59 comments:

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

What is the money get here?

Anonymous said...

What?!?!

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

Somebody, somehow, is making money off of this!

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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!?

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

This is silly.

Anonymous said...

Reeves and Hennefin weren't invited.

Anonymous said...

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!

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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...

Anonymous said...

File this story under "NOT the Babylon Bee"

Anonymous said...

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.?

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...


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.

Anonymous said...

"...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...

Anonymous said...

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

Wow said...

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

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...


One thing you can say:

NO SHAME IN THEIR GAME!

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

Comedy or insanity?

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...


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

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

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

When is the RAW BOOBOO celebration?

Anonymous said...

@ 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"?
- ...?

Anonymous said...

This will be one of the only “Day of Action” days this joke mayor has had. Plenty of days of inaction though.
G

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

@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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

Typical reaction in a Democrat run "city",

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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'.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

What the actual f&ck?

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

@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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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?

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

"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.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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


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