Do you think that the impact of centuries of racism can be erased in less than a generation? I may not understand your post, via your use of past tense, but if you are implying that racism does not continue to have an impact on the people and institutions that it marginalized for all those years, I simply disagree. Collectively we are getting better, but unfortunately, we are still seeing racist militias coming out of the woodwork since Obama disrupted the normal power structure.
You mean the same citizens that keep voting for the same crooks election, after election, after election? Stokes has been in office as city councilman and/or Supervisor since 1989! Chucky Labamba's (Big Chuck) dad was as bad or worse than he is and they still voted for little Chuck, TWICE. Harvey Johnson was elected, left and came back and was re-elected.
There are about as many racist militias out there as there are furry orgy groups and for 99%+ of the population, they have the same impact on their lives.
I honestly think if Stokes, even Yarbor, or anyone else not named Lumumba were mayor of Jackson right now, the water issues would have gotten resolved and the City would still be a willing participant in this 'Partnership' with the state or whatever it's called. Lumumba is driving a wedge, making things worse, and it makes no sense outside of ego driven dumb stuff. Jackson should have hit bottom and started building up, but as it is, it's still digging.
"patriot" militias have been on the rise since the 90's and that is accelerating. That's a simple Google search away. Perhaps you would contend they are actually patriots and not mostly racists. In my opinion one way to know for certain that someone is NOT a patriot these days is if they call themselves one or are aligned with a group that does so. On the other points, I think, per my admission about possibly misinterpreting in my prior post, that I misinterpreted your OP.
And do you really not understand how past tense works? I did not say racism didn't exist. I explicitly pointed out that they started behind because of it. In my opinion they are basically insurmountably behind under any plausible scenario (i.e., excluding hypotheticals where somebody gives them an extra $150M to $200M to spend each year for ten to fifteen years and conditions the grant on having a competent leader with virtually dictatorial powers when it comes to decisions with the school; also that would have to be combined with competent leadership from Jackson). But that doesn't change the fact that current racism is not what is holding them back now (unless you want to say it's racism in jackson that ensures they have corrupt and incompetent leadership, which I don't think racism is the right word for that).
ETA: Look at it another way: IF you were JSU leadership, and only worried about JSU and not about what would be best for the world, do you think JSU would be helped more by Jackson turning into the next Nashville and the Duffs deciding the JSU was the only cause they wanted to support? Or by racism disappearing? Racism disappearing would not suddenly put JSU in a desirable location, or provide them a pot of money. In other words, current racism isn't the primary problem holding them back, even if they were crippled by past racism.
Rick Cleveland - If there's any justice in this world. That guy has devoted a lifetime to promoting Mississippi athletes from every corner of the state.
Well, until you've done some "simple google searches" for furry orgy groups and determined what has happened to their numbers since the 90's, you can't really credibly dispute my statement.
