Showing posts with label — Amazing Polly Isn't Here to Compromise (@FringeViews) January 11. Show all posts
Showing posts with label — Amazing Polly Isn't Here to Compromise (@FringeViews) January 11. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Jackson, Mississippi, the City With Soul and the 3rd Highest Homicide Rate in the World

Mother Nature is taking Jackson, Mississippi back and no one has the ability to stop her.  
Even the churches are closed down here, and this is the Deep South where religion is all that a lot of these people have.  Even the foreign churches are closed.  --Nick Johnson


Observations from narrator, Nick Johnson,
"Jackson, Mississippi, the city with Soul because of the blues and gospel and folk and jazz."  Named for Andrew Jackson 
$30,000 to be a cop in Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson is  Mississippi's capital AND most populous.  "Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi."  

Johnson again,

Jackson is 80% black, and the state legislature is mostly white. 
Jackson, Mississippi has the 3rd highest homicide rate in the world behind Tijuana, Mexico, and Caracas, Venezuela.
Abandoned retail space!  Now that's scary.  

Johnson continues,
Is desegregation to blame?  A lot of the white families took their families to the burbs. 
North Jackson is pretty nice with a commercial center called Fondren. 
North Jackson is nice, and he covers that at the 20:45 mark.  Madison, Mississippi is a very nice, upscale neighborhood. 


22:55  The narrator, Nick Johnson, concludes that Jackson, Mississippi is the worst place he's ever been, worse than Baltimore, Maryland, worse than Shreveport, Louisiana, and worse than Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and even Oakland, Califonia. 

24:00  Nick interviews Tyra, one of Jackson, Mississippi's residents.  

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Birx is super evil. Did you know that she screamed not to give her a transfusion while she was in labor? She knew about the tainted blood.

"Birx is super evil"?  I couldn't agree with Amazing Polly more. 


Start at the 16:03 mark and run to about the 17:20 mark.  

Here are Kerry's words.  

16:03. Back in the spring of 1983, Debbie was at Walter Reed hospital for the birth of her eldest daughter and she had lost a lot of blood during the delivery and the obstetrician ordered a transfusion.

I got news for you they're about to. 

But Debbie had read a report weeks earlier about a new disease that no one knew much about.  But the risks of a blood transfusion were very, very clear to her.  And literally just before she passed out from pain, Debbie screamed, "Do not let them give me blood."  

Her husband refused the transfusion, and it is a mighty good thing that he did because the hospital learned later that that blood type of her blood type --that they would have used was contaminated with HIV.  That was Debbie's first brush with AIDS, and it literally changed her.  It made her think hard not just about the perils of this new disease, but about her responsibility to fight it.  17:20