Jackson Jambalaya

17 minutes? Sorry - I bailed after one minute.........

This is so sad. Shut it down!!

Language not fit for kids but his perspective of big picture is sharp.

Get down to Happyburg, they have a good zoo

I about fell out when he said his dick was bigger than the gorillas

Feral pitbulls turned the zoo into a buffet a few years ago until the last flamingo tapped out.

animal cruelty. needs to be shut down now. where is peta and the aspca. oh wait, never mind. I know why

and there's no concession stand to get cotton candy at ;-(

The vernacular is indeed colorful. Interesting to see how his class of Jacksonian expresses their opinion of Mayor Lumumba.

I'm really not sure I'd eat or drink anything sold there. Well cans or bottles or maybe candybars out of a machine.

I love it! keep it up! Please promote more local creators!

@4:46 tell us you a racist without sayin you a racist

Sure it sucks now, but it'll be rocking when it gets Lumumba's new "amphitheater"

Very entertaining, although I had to bail, after the fourth time he cleared his sinuses.

Can we get this guy as a script writer in Hollywood? Damn it Boy! He could write the new “Bad Boyz” movie for Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. That’s a fact! Honestly, he’s telling the truth. Even a large amount of black people know this city has come to a dead end I like 4:55’s comment. He is right. They will care for the animals and love them in “Happyburg” ….you gotta love that name.

He is right; it needs to be leveled!

Jackson is just a big Pink elllifint

The backwards ballcap adds credibility, or is it "street creds?"

What this really shows is the what the zoo needs is the people to come back. Most of the exhibits from my child hood are still there. It just sucks that everyone is giving the hard working people at the zoo a hard time. What people can't see is they are doing great with what they are given. This guy was unfortunately a clown. If people just felt comfortable to come back it could save it but there is unfortunately too much propaganda at this point. I spend a lot of time in the park, much of what people say is speculation.

If the city is subsidizing that then that should be considered misfeasance. Spend that money where it can be put to better use.

a childhood memory...

I spend a lot of time in the park, much of what people say is speculation.

It is speculation, not fact, that the Zoo is a dump? Doesn't appear too much different than the spin that Jackson crime is a matter of perception.

All they need is an outdoor music venue and it will be PERFECT!

Not sure how you can have an outdoor music venue without a space for the food trucks.

The panoramic view of the parking lot said it all.

The Jackson, MS Zoo is just another Leftist Democrat Party failure on full display. The cancer really started to spread in the 1990’s when Kane Ditto imported a leftist police chief (from DC if remember correctly) And decades later, Jacksonians just keep scalding themselves on the stove eye, touching it again and again and again and again, by continuing to vote for the same Democrat Party that destroyed Jackson.

But the grifters running America’s Democrat controlled failed out of control crime and chaos cities, with children dying from stray bullets and being murdered, can depend on the White Liberal (Progressives???) Democrats at MS Today, the Clarion Ledger, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the pols, and the fools that listen to their lies and propaganda…..to keep coving for them and making excuses in exchange for votes in state and national elections.

HOW in the world DO these WHITE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS lay their immoral heads on a pillow and SLEEP AT NIGHT? Because it isn’t their children dying, getting the s____y educations, etc., etc., etc.???

There is a ton of parking, it goes around half of Livingston Park. There was a food truck at the disc golf tournament.

Who was the police chief hired in 1990? There as a Chief Robert something that everyone loved & respected. Can’t remember is last name.

I made it to the 4:37 mark, but I couldn't listen any more.

Honestly, the conditions were much better that I expected, but that's not to say that they're good. The zoo is a sad shell of its former self.

He didn't say if this visit was on the weekend or if it was a weekday. If it was a weekday, good for him for managing to get away from his job for a while, but I also wouldn't expect to see very many people there on a weekday, so no surprise there.

Obviously the zoo cannot operate with the current lack of funding and in its current state. It really needs to be closed for the good of the remaining animals and as part of a broader triage of the city's finances.

So apparently it is racist to not watch a 17-minute video all the way through. *takes note*

The moment at 14:44 in the video says a LOT. Dave Wetzel is a HUGE reason the zoo is where it's at now. He started the whole plan of no more cleaning or landscaping under the guise of "natural habitats". Instead everything looks like crap and you can't see a damn thing due to all the overgrowth. Eff that guy.

Where is PETA? Oh yeah, Progressives protect Progressives. Forget your mission statement: All hail neo-Marixism!

7:02 AM Can I get some dressing with that word salad?

This is an accurate video on all accounts!

Besides Othor Cain and Brad Franklin, I think a majority of the Jackson population knows it's a joke and wants change.

7:11 I take no joy in this, but the zoo is located in one of the worst parts of one of the most murderous cities in America, and that is fact, not propaganda. Folks from safe communities just aren't going there anymore.

I had a family zoo membership until the zoo lost its license several years ago. My nine year old knows that zoo like the back of her hand. She knows where every exhibit is and where she wants to go. I have younger kids that I wish could experience that too. But they will not, because I value their safety, and because the zoo is just in pitiful shape.

You have local public and private schools taking kids by the busload to the Hattiesburg Zoo, or the Memphis Zoo, or the Audubon Zoo. Such a shame that we don't have a viable option here anymore.

I read somewhere that the Zoo brings in about $1200 a month. That's actually insanely low, and not even enough to pay the ticket taker. Its current location isn't coming back. Move it, please.

Read CITY ZOO: an unfairy story instead. Mississippi author. Amazon.

This is not even a decision anymore...never was. Anyone with 1/2 a brain that isn't pandering to the electorate in that ward would close the zoo. It's a financial drain

The zoo looks so rundown, empty, and sad. I feel real sorry for the animals that are left there. When I was a kid my favorite exhibit was Monkey Island, with it’s castles (built in the 1930’s by the WPA) and of course it’s monkeys. It is still at the zoo but has been relocated to an empty field, unused, crumblining and overgrown with weeds.

As sad as the zoo condition has become, the narrator's complete lack of intelligible language skills and inability to read the signs posted identifying the animals showcases that the education of the human mind has been seriously neglected as well. I was more shocked at his inability to read than the condition of the zoo.

@1:42 PM - There was a library next to the zoo in the not too distant past, where the narrator might could have learned a few things. The mayor and his cronies let the library system fall by the wayside, just like the zoo.