'Jackson has been paralyzed by the confluence of racism, classism, and the worsening climate crisis.'
Jackson, the state capital of Mississippi, has a population of over 150,000 people, more than 80% of whom are African American. Mississippi is the poorest state in the country. Jackson residents, already under a water boil notice for over a month, have now had no running water for days, to drink, to bathe in, or to flush toilets. The Pearl River flooded following record rainfall, overwhelming the city's water treatment plant.
But that is only a temporary fix. Jackson's water problems run far deeper."We are seeing the intentional divestment in communities that are led by Black elected officials," Jackson resident and social justice organizer Danyelle Holmes told Reuters at a water distribution center this week."This has been an issue for me since I came down here…in 1991. I was always told not to drink that water.
Jackson was founded two hundred years ago, named in honor of Andrew Jackson, a wealthy plantation owner who made a fortune using enslaved labor and who later, as the seventh president of the United States, orchestrated the ethnic cleansing of much of the South's indigenous population in what became known as the Trail of Tears. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman ordered the city burned to the ground during the Civil War.
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