re: YouTuber shocked at what he finds in Jackson, MS

None of this should be surprising.

The current mayor is the latest in a line of do nothing Democrat, African American mayors on the heels of a bunch of poor performing democrat, Caucasian mayors. This has been a prolonged death spiral and the patient (Jackson) is reaching the end of functional life.

Why is there sadness over any of this? The people living in Jackson sought this out, supported and voted for it - for over 50 years. The current mayor is a devout socialist and activist. This level of destruction is what socialist ultimately want as it creates an additional dependence on the government, yet this local government fails in function.

Jackson was a pretty cool city in the late 70s/early-mid 80s. I wonder what changed?

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Detroit is probably better than it was 20 years ago.

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Detroit is indeed far better than it was. But that's a huge caveat. Detroit filed bankruptcy and had a large degree of outside control by lawyers and banks. They essentially hit the reset button. The debt was rationalized and the city now has money to pay for police and infrastructure.

A similar thing happened in Jefferson County AL (BHM).

I hesitate to call any of this "democrat leadership". It was a lawfirm hired by the courts to come in and hit the reset button. What they did had no reflection on the constituency or voters, and in fact could be seen as a rebuke of such.

Will it last? Who knows. The city has more money to use for safety and infrastructure, but if the voters keep electing the folks that ran the city into the ground, will the cycle just perpetuate? It's a distinct possibility.

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Name one democrat run area that is "actually improving"

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Austin, TX?

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He really needs to work on his silly voice-overs.

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That's seriously your take away from the video?

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lived in Jackson for 6 years and didn't recognize most of the hoods and spots where he was.

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So you too were scared to explore the city? Or are you telling us not to believe our lying eyes?

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Name me a quality majority-black quality city that is actually improving. Is there one?

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Not just cities. Pick any city, country, or institution in the world that has majority black leadership and majority black population, and I'll show you a third world hellscape that is ripe with violent crime, corruption, and poverty.

The mayor of Jackson walks out of a room every time the pledge of allegiance is recited because it goes against his socialist beliefs, but runs the city infrastructure into the ground and struts around jive-turkeying it when the feds fork over almost a billion dollars to fix the water system.

This is your new America.

Jackson looks like hell.

I apologize for ever saying Little Rock was ghetto.

It has at least 20 years of solid decline to reach Jackson's shithole status. I mean, it might, eventually. But there are still good areas, and the ghettos at least have paved roads and running water.

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Above 10%- 15% or so and I’m guessing the social pathologies become obvious quick. Not that there aren’t shitty all- white areas too, they just tend to be rural.

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I’m just leaving Croatia, which has very un-diverse demographics. It is clean and safe. What a wonderful place!

I believe that diversity could be a great advantage but only if there was more personal accountability (jail time for littering; work requirement for welfare; institutionalization for homelessness)