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.  

DR. THEY: "They don’t care if the truth comes out because the public no longer knows what is meant by the truth." ~2016 X Files Dr. They talking to Mulder


Stuart Margolin, aka, Angel from The Rockford Files, 1974-1980, plays Dr. They.  Wikipedia attempts to explain the segment by saying, "The episode focuses on the Mandela Effect and is a self-parody of the show and recurring events."  Self-parody of the show?  Ha!  Right.  Apparently, it says nothing about public institutions.  It reminded me of how CIA operations in any industry are often set up, have a physical address, even a receptionist, and then when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan the operation is taken down and offices are vacated, like you see in the 2012 movie, Erased, starring Aaron Eckhart.  So many of these movies straight out take plot structures, theme music, and even scenes from the original 2002 Bourne Identity.  

Just glad that America is not subject to any foreign influence

Monday, April 29, 2024

When people agree to lie together...the results can be impressive.

Low-carb "fatty melt" with grilled onions