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Media Figures Make The Jackson Water Crisis All About Racism [Memories of New Orleans & Hurricane Katrina]
Daily Caller ^ | 09/03/22 | Harold Hutchinson

Posted on 09/04/2022 5:20:46 AM PDT by SES1066

Liberal media outlets and figures blamed a long-running water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, on racism in the wake of Republican Gov. Tate Reeves declaring a state of emergency. --- Reeves warned residents of Jackson, the state’s capital, not to drink the tap water due to the failure of water pumps at the city’s main water treatment plant Monday after the Pearl River flooded. National Guard troops began assisting efforts to deliver bottled water to the city’s 180,000 residents. Many liberal media figures, including reporters from NBC and MSNBC hosts, claimed racism was the cause of the crisis.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: bias; blame; jackson; media; mississippi; republican; water
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To: jacknhoo
These people haven’t been forced to pay their water bills for a decade I heard on the radio news the other day.

I heard this too - electricity as well.

What would happen if I didn't pay my electric or water bill?

I'd be cut off within days and have to pay a hefty re-connection fee.

41 posted on 09/04/2022 6:58:10 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: SES1066

Someone explained something to me this week that made some sense. He said that the medias job is to sell advertising so if it bleeds it leads. In other words, the media is making news, not reporting it.

Here is my thought. Any news which isn’t predicated on journalistic best practices need to be labeled OPINION. It must be splashed on every TV screen, article, radio program, etc. Doesn’t matter political slant or ideology. Make it the new fairness doctrine. If the media refuses to abide by it, that Freedom of the Press thing they talk about when caught in a lie can always be rescinded in a Constitutional Convention.


42 posted on 09/04/2022 7:05:43 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (DJT24)
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To: EEGator; wardaddy

‘Flash mob’ looters ransack LA convenience store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnru2z7Ljz4&ab_channel=TheIndependent


43 posted on 09/04/2022 7:15:02 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SES1066

That’s funny considering that Jackson’s population is 80% black and has a black mayor and city council.


44 posted on 09/04/2022 7:15:25 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Flick Lives

What did leftist use for light before candles?

Electricity.


45 posted on 09/04/2022 7:16:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Travis McGee
What happens when a NYC or LA can’t provide safe drinking water to their millions of already on-the-edge inhabitants? When the food trucks stop? No more gas and diesel, empty ATMs, empty supermarkets? What then?

We cordon off a perimeter with armed civilian troops.

46 posted on 09/04/2022 7:18:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: wardaddy; All

True. The District of Columbia water purification sysrem is well over a century old. Similar spot problems have arisen. The political leadership in deep blue cities with a lot of negroes imply won’t or can’t address real infrastructure problems because of both their low collective intelligence and the spectacular amount of outright stealing.


47 posted on 09/04/2022 7:46:48 AM PDT by robowombat (Orth,He looks like the sex all y one )
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To: RoosterRedux

If you weren’t racist, you would admit it.

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0bama made me racist.


48 posted on 09/04/2022 8:43:06 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: butlerweave

I’m thirsty........I’m really thirsty!!!!!!
Wow, that’s radical dude


49 posted on 09/04/2022 8:50:04 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: EEGator
Incompetence barely touches the problem because so much of it is set by family, culture, and education. The “incompetent blacks” you refer to are commonly raised without fathers and are the products of America's dismal public education system that (for blacks in Mississippi) went from near nonexistence under Jim Crow to integration with a bloated public school bureaucracy, bad curriculum, and serving as a union and Democratic Party job bank and ideological training camp.

Perhaps even worse is that in the 60s, America swallowed a big dose of Leftism and went from supporting and advocating traditional marriage and family life to accommodating and then encouraging single parenthood, with a destructive welfare system that drove the out of wedlock birth rate upward and upward. Much of America -- not just black America -- now lacks not just the education but also the habits and cultural capital necessary for progress in life.

50 posted on 09/04/2022 2:26:29 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

Yeah, Africa is a true paradise.

Nothing but freedom, intelligence, and ingenuity.
Your relativism and excuses disgust me.


51 posted on 09/04/2022 2:29:27 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: SES1066

The mayor is black. If black people want to run things they need to do their job and be accountable for their own failures.

Instead of bragging about being an activist and hiring incompetents, they need to prove they are not corrupt and are in control.

Same problem in Chicago. We have a woman who does not have the qualifications and knowledge to run a large city.


52 posted on 09/04/2022 2:32:52 PM PDT by dforest
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To: EEGator
Perhaps my views are unclear.

The wealthiest, healthiest, best educated, and most free black people on the planet are black Americans. In Africa, there are schools that teach an American accent and how to navigate American life so that Africans can get to the US illegally or on a tourist visa and overstay, and then find a job and work the system in order to gain a green card.

Yet the US also has wretched black slums and a public culture of Leftist race ideology that both ignores and excuses black failure. Worse, the Left is hostile to faith and the formation and encouragement of the character and habits that make for success in life. For whites, intact families, faith, accumulated human capital, and traditional virtues do much to ease the impact.

The Left slyly refers to this as "white supremacy," thereby making the ills caused by the Left against blacks into a racial slur against whites.

53 posted on 09/05/2022 4:51:12 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: SES1066
For anyone interested, a very interesting read...

Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell

54 posted on 09/05/2022 5:00:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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