Jackson Jambalaya

ROFLMAO What won't he think of next?

I thought that kid on the right had no head until I zoomed in

The return of Electionman!

Why? Someone needs to tell him he is embarrassing himself. We told him we don’t want him no more. He needs to move out the way and let us heal. More Slick Talk can’t fix what he has destroyed. We can’t trust his words. His vision is not our vision. Sir, please stop.

Say it with me one time "Political Theater" nothing to see here

an enhanced wetland experience“ diving into the closest pond when the shooting starts….I had birthday parties for both children in the late 90’s , it was great then…

Is that only if he is elected. If attendance is so low as reported; I cannot see this as a source of revenue. Crime with small children & no animals don’t compute!

very weak and a waste of money at any level. Looks like something a high school would do on a whim, and if recent history is taken into consideration, no one is going to the zoo for any event. Waste

also, that's a awful lot of white folk in that artist rendering which makes me think that this rendering was produced for another job somewhere, and the lying mayor borrowed it to say he did something

Yeahhhhhhh...It'll never happen & I would bet $100,000 on that. Great timing though, right after Chokwe got his ass handed to him in the primary. If I had more time on my hands, I would FOIA some communications on that to see when the City and that engineering firm started working on that plan...

Can attendees purchase buckets of fried Thalia Mara catfish and access sufficient trash cans and portatoilets?

Just stop. Put any "projects" on hold until the new mayor takes office.

Archie warned you fools…the white peoples takin over. Look at the picture!

The rendering shows a $25,000 timber pergola with a sloped roof, not an amphitheater, which is designed to reflect sound out to an audience. Perhaps it's just an outdoor Fried Catfish Kitchen.

Antard will have lost the runoff before this project has even gone out to bid.

Transportation to/from in armored-up buses will be provided at no charge.

What will he conjure up next to pander for votes?

Bruh. That's a shed. Looks like my deer trough actually.

4:12 Exactly.
Unless...... unless.....David L. Archie gone put all us white folks IN the ZOO!

Those poor animals will now have to listen to Battle Rappers all during the night.

Same firm apparently had the disappointment of being associated with the Engineering Design Technologies Inc., Mississippi Developers LLC proposal for the JRA COnvention Center hotel that didn't fly in 2015.

With Mitzi Bickers.

Coincidentally also out of Atlanta.


https://mississippitoday.org/2018/10/24/federal-indictment-contractor-gave-bribes-to-former-jackson-mayor-other-city-officials/

https://www.scribd.com/doc/315355234/EDT-Proposal-Hotel-in-Jackson

Interesting timing for this boondoggle.

I needed a laugh today.

@4:51. Ha! Now that's funny.

The design work probably cost more than the construction of this amphitheater

Most free AI tools could have done a better mock up.

Where is the money coming from to build this lunchbox shed ?

Where did the money come from to have the design work done? Marcus Wallace's campaign account?

I was on the fence before, but now I am fully onboard with Lumumba. This is superior leadership.

Should have posted this last Tuesday.

I see this will be located next to the new mosquito exhibit.

4:12 for today's win; 4:29 a close 2nd

That is hilarious!!!

He can't help himself....and he has a handful of loudmouth racist buddies ruining the city and cheering him on.

Great location, who’d a thunk it.

If I had a nickel for all the plans and artist renditions Lumumba has put out that never come to fruition I’d have a lot of nickels

I’m thinkin Chocky’s kid had to do a school presentation and this was the product. So, he said let me throw this out there. There ain’t a rapper or DJ in the world that would agree to entertain at this place without hazard pay. So embarrassing.

I count 41 in attendance whoop whoop

Shutter the Zoo and fix the damn streets

Uh that's a pavilion. I think there is already one there. Will it open before Thalia mara hall?

Yep, according to the release it will start in late July. Post election...

While this is too funny, it's only the start of what we may see before the runoff.

Chuck has what ... about two more weeks before the polls reopen ?

Expect more goofy "plans/visions" along with additional outlandish allegations about the irrelevant number of White folks that are still voting in Jackson.

One fact seems guaranteed:
WE WILL BE ENTERTAINED.




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I swear they are just using the zoo to launder money.

Doesn’t the city counsel have to vote on this kind of stuff and spending? I’d be curious to know if or when this was brought to them. Have they approved it by vote? The mayor can’t just make up pet projects and get them done(hell he can’t get much done), but doesn’t it have to have a vote?

Jackson's Marion Barry.

Wait it is almost all WHITE FOLKS in the drawing.....

Chokwe could waste less money by building a small pole barn and leaving the sides off.

Chokwe may have already noticed that Mayor Barry went to Federal Prison and after his release managed to get elected first to the city council and then as mayor.

If I were an architect or an engineer, I would be embarrassed to put my name on this.....

Not a terrible idea. It's not pie in the sky, and would be relatively inexpensive. The disk golf course they installed out there has proven that even suburban folks are willing to come to that area.

However, it will take a different mayor to pull it off.

All it has proven is that disk golf aficionados, of which their number is very small, are willing to take the risk.

A couple of years ago, a cousin of mine who is a combat veteran and was wounded in action when his tank was hit by an RPG near Abu Gharib, was driving through Jackson and texted me to ask whether he should stop at the zoo. I told him no, the area is pretty rough and the zoo is run down. He stopped anyway. He told me West Capitol looked worse that bombed out Iraq in stretches. So yeah, good luck getting folks to come out for that. I suspect this idea will get nixed when Chokwe loses the runoff.

Turning the zoo into a really nice park seems like a no-brainer. It would have to cost much less where there is no animal care involved. Then see if it can justify its existence.

"Seating designed to accommodate a range of audience sizes." - Um...where? On the ground and the wall?

At one point Mill Street rivaled the moon for huge craters.

8:40 most "disk golf aficionados" are liberal pot heads that are oblivious to their surroundings, bro!

I can't believe the mayor allowed that photo from the design group. Most (all but one?) of then peoples are white!

Reminds me of a Scout project I saw somewhere. And that cannot be Crack-town in the drawing - too many white folks (meaning 1 is too many for the area) and everyone is too thin.

Pray this one doesn't happen. The poor animals. Who is stupid enough to build a noise maker next to a zoo?

I'd imagine those poor animals are more worried about decent living conditions and avoiding wild dogs than noise.
They have surely been subjected to endless loud music from cars and guns for years already.

@08:40; having made that little "adventure to exotic lands" as well, I concur on the comparison. Me, however, I stay my arse on the FOB these days. I avoid Jackson except for the unavoidable medical appointment and always have plate armor in the vehicle. Just sayin.

He can’t use water $ increases if Ted is granted the 12% increase to cover non payers. Ted is desperately trying to HELP COJ taxpayers. I hope he wins.

this will be the perfect venue for the countless untalented soundcloud mumble-rappers in the Metro!

How is this amphitheater in Livingston Park different from the Gertrude C Ford Wildlife Adventures Theater across the driveway inside the zoo?
And would people who go to the amphitheater actually cross the driveway to enter the zoo?

And yet on another note Ted Henifin is thrown to the wolves for asking for an increase in residential water bills @ $9 a month. This is one combo meal out or less.

Ted needs to stop concentrating on "helping" the ones who don't pay their water bills. Want water? Pay for it like the rest of us do. Dont pay? Cut it off. I am a huge Ted supporter but this crap of making a very small percentage of folks pay HIGHER prices to cover the system for all people in Jackson is bullshit.

Ted needs to take his 400K salary and the 250K salary of Jordan and sit down. They have run out of federal funds due to reckless spending on advertisement and mail outs to the various households. I am tired of Wingate rubber stamping all of Ted's requests for funding after recklessly spending the $800 million our District 2 Congressman secured for Jackson, MS.

Adding to my comment of 3:52 (above). Ted was royally screwed when he couldn't use some of the funds to pay off the debts. If that had happened, he would be looking at a true collections vs water/sewer system cost. Since he was blocked to pay off the debts, the collections have to cover debt payments too. Situation sucks.

No doubt you are a Lumumba supporter because those are his talking points. He attacks Henifin and then in the next breath says he wants him to be successful. He's in a runoff versus John Horhn, not Ted Henifin.

Why fix potholes/blight/crime/sewers/libraries when you can build an amphitheater which no credible singer/band would perform at? Right?

Watching residents whine about a $9 increase after many of them paid nothing for years is riot.

You know Mayor, the Zoo should have been a yearly task for the past eight years, not for 2025. Too far gone to turn it around