When Thompson became the mayor of Bolton, MS he found that the prior mayor wasn’t applying for federal funding and grants, (hmmm wonder why?) the kind of basic things readily available for improving conditions in that Delta town. So he immediately started to apply for them.
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HOW ABOUT SOME FUCKING STATE TAX REVENUE YOU MOOCHING RED STATE TWATS!?!?!?!?
“He said he believed the governor and lieutenant governor should appoint a majority of the board’s members because Mississippi’s failure to “provide the basic needs and services that our people deserve is reflected 100% back on the governor and the people in this building.””
Riiiiiiight…the people in charge who were ultimately responsible for it and fucked it all up should be handed even more control over everything precisely BECAUSE they fucked it all up. Do these people even listen to the idiot words coming out of their idiot mouths?
NOBODY IS FUCKING FOOLED. They’re trying to depopulate Jackson and send “them” all fleeing to other states.
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It is also about the contractors, engineers, and supply channels. The residents of Jackson might make the wrong choices. You know, people that don’t make campaign (kickback) contributions.
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Know who else controls the water in a region so that they can oppress and subjugate that region’s population? Israel.
The white-controlled apartheid state of Mississippi doesn’t want to pay for the black City of Jackson to have a functioning, adequate and safe water supply. It wants the POC of Jackson to have to pay for it all by themselves so white racist fucktard plutocrats who control the state can live in their mindless ideological daydream bubble of low and no state taxes, being the real welfare queens of our country, who mooch off the blue states via the federal gov’t at all times and to the greatest extent they can possibly manage.
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Of course it’s welfare water. Everything about Mississippi, starting with its abject dependence on blue state revenue streams feeding the federal gov’t is fucking welfare.
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Someone somewhere in the city of Jackson up to and including the state legislature ain’t doin’ their job well at all. Or they see a chance at a large payday for which they’re willing to sacrifice the residents in the city of Jackson, sad to say.
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Are you referring to Brett Favre the Magat Lavre?
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“Over the years, state leaders including the current governor, Tate Reeves, have expressed skepticism about whether Jackson is capable of managing its own affairs.”
Sure. Come on, state it out loud. “'Dem ni–, uh, blacks ain’t com-pee-tent.”
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“Especially in mining”
It’s a dirty business.
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Gvien the low voter turnout among Mississippi’s black population, it would seem that some serious organizing needs to be done there to get out the vote and energize and educate the voters.
I would think that the Democratic party would recognize this and spend the money necessary to accomplish this goal.
It would be good for the state, good for its citizens, and probably turn the sate a nice shade of blue.
The South overall is not really conservative—it’s just unorganized politically.
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maybe something along those lines … and definitely out of bounds
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I had exactly the same reaction to that statement.
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I imagine that Democrats are an endangered species in Mississippi. Organizers would likely have to come from outside of the state. And that’s what got some of them killed in 1961. I don’t see that Mississippi has changed a whole heck of a lot since then, either.
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It has a rocky foundation.
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I thought apartheid was so 20th century. Here it is big and loud in Jackson, Mississippi.
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The very, very best thing you can say about this story is it is noblesse oblige run amok. The white folk don’t believe the black folk can be trusted to use the money to renovate Jackson’s Water System. More likely the white people in the state government want to use the $600,000,000 to help other white people at the expense of the black people of Jackson. Welcome to the 19th century.
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Mississippi 2022 midterm turn out 32%, lowest in the USA. Because voting clearly doesn’t matter. 49th state in overall rankings (Yay Louisiana!) PPE the same as Estonia, Poland or Hungary.
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Well, you could say “Either / Ore”…
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One of the things you see repeated over and over again is a fiscal mismatch in a high-poverty city. There are a set of things municipalities are expected to provide: schools, fire, police, roads, elections and, often, water. There are a few ways to raise revenue for those expenditures, but no guarantee that the income that can be raised will meet the expenses. It’s common in high-poverty cities to not be able to generate revenue to cover expenses. Because the high-poverty cities are often majority black with black-run governments, the rest of the state assumes it’s the black city managers who are incompetent, not that they have an impossible job.
As taxes rise and services are cut to make ends meet, , the people who can afford to leave do,leaving the city no better off.
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Another thing you (sometimes) see in conjunction with that is a large commitment to provide facilities for entities (a seat of state government, for example) that expect services without necessarily paying any taxes.
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