Jackson City Council Member Speaks Out on Mississippi Water Crisis



Jackson City Councilman Aaron Banks discusses the city’s history of water crises as major flooding has created an emergency, leaving thousands without running water. #mississippi #watercrisis #abcnews

Original source (ABC/Youtube)

37 comments

  1. Whatever brother you and the politicians of Mississippi all screwed up.

  2. The racist white governor of Mississippi and the fake black mayor of Jackson, Mississippi and the city council members of Jackson, Mississippi have failed the people no damn excuse they all are sorry (A word) people.

  3. Avoid what is happening to Jackson, Mississippi. https://youtu.be/szZv3wElOPA This video shows how to make An Emergency Water Filter that cleans water like an Berkey Water Filter for a sixth of the cost. Also, Cabela's sells Life Straws. Share this info with friends and family

  4. What a joke, leave it to Anerican news to put the spin on what's really going on. It takes a visit to Australia's Sky News to find out the truth. One, this has been a recurring problem for
    thirty years. Much like Flint Michigan, another minority run city that can't find the political wherewithal to fund and manage a city. It's like nost entitled entities, let the Feds help us out.

  5. Racial component real and intentional—but the intent is to provide a distraction so the wealthy, the MIC and the political class can play the shell game and steal. We have the wealth as a nation; we are one if the richest countries on the planet. Yet, in poor communities, even predominantly white ones, roads and bridges are in decay, power and water systems are failing. Electrical grids cannot keep up with demand. Yet, we are one of the richest nations. Our taxes keep going up. Our productivity is going up. Where is the wealth going?!?

  6. 1. Buy a pallet of water: $140+. Or a half pallet. Stop burning gas @$3.50/gal ($10.00 waiting in line) vs BUYING YOURSELF A CASE!
    Use 1 and 5 gals for bathing.
    Use the 16 oz. bottles for cooking, brushing teeth and drinking.
    2. Don't waste your energy bring pissed at officials, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU; and YOU nd YOUR vibes to FOCUS on ya next move!

    3. Prayer & Action go together.

  7. Biden gave 1 trillion in aid to Ukraine and zero to Mississippi because he labeled them racists

  8. The Mississippi GOP KKK toxic buffoon idiot leadership should be removed from public office.

  9. The same type of problem is also occurring in Baltimore

  10. Can't afford to hire the necessary licensed water operators deemed only legal levels by the department of health? It sounds like there is a lot of corruption. They don't have enough money to hire the right people with all the water sales revenue, sales tax revenue. As their president says c'mon man 🤣

  11. But have billions to Ukrain

  12. I am reminded of hurricane Katrina. Incompetence local mayor. Clear politics by the Governor. Similar history.

    Blacks and Whites in the Deep South need to get their collective acts together. They need to get past their horrific shared history.

  13. this plane flying around in mississippi all day is obviously a radio controlled aircraft . its done as a distraction from the water problem they have there. the plane is most likely a military exercise just like nato did on 911 for bush and cheney. they have no shame. the water flooding was done on purpose by the powers that be there to poison all the wells and make the people move out. they want them to not have free water but to now hook up to town water and sewerage systems that cost money. the rich want to steal the water and the land while getting paid for it. they are republican grifters just like they have in michigan and down in louisiana. stealing water and land and mineral rights and putting the poor people in the streets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKXmmXa1bso call the army core of engineers to fix it all for free with federal emergency money.. arrest bush and cheney for murder of 3000 people and stealing 21 trillion dollars on 911. ive seen and heard of guys getting arrested, beaten to a bloody pulp, cavity searched, home and automobile seized and auctioned, and they were tried and found guilty for having one joint of marijuana and had to do 25 years hard time. and the trump gang, and atleast a few thousand others working within our government like them, do a million times worse and are accountable for nothing and to nobody. nothing but pardons and immunity and secrecy under national insecurity!!! cia, fbi, supreme court and secret service obstruct & erase criminal evidence just like they did for reagan with iran contra, bush and cheneys 911 horror show, and now trump with his massive national security and voting machine data dumps and theft of computer data. dont forget the kennedy muders and the 125 murdered witnesses. another ongoing coverup. there is no statute of limitations on 3000 murders at the twin towers or murders at the capital or seditious conspiracy or treason. gulliani was in charge of the cia records building 7 destroyed on purpose. jeb bush was in charge of security for the twin towers. cheney and rumsfeld covered the pentagon and nato. https://www.voltairenet.org/article174656.html there was a nato global military exercise that day sept. 11, 2001. https://tinyurl.com/2h62v8dw 21 trillion dollars was missing as a result, causing the financial crash of 2008, https://tinyurl.com/ycknnzdd and now adding to hyperinflation. meanwhile trump gives away 7 trillion dollars to the ultra rich tax free that tax payers have to now pay back. a million people died and trump and jared and pence give no help for covid . the treasonous flynn brothers pentagon sucks up 1 trillion a year into a black hole. the world bank, the cia and pentagon did nothing to stop 911 or the insurrection at the capital but with no accountability. they caused this war between russia and ukraine for profit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnAf9YnjeLs arrest putin and zelensky for war crimes and bring them both to trial now. dismantle nato , the cia and defund the pentagon. https://www.voltairenet.org/article189895.html arrest anyone who is selling weapons or using weapons to kill people and committing murder. outlaw standing armies and weapons sales between countries and war profiteering globally . http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0424/c90000-10088344.html these pro war people are dangerous ,insane and should be in prison. this is all just nato play games and doing target practice while making hundreds of billions of dollars grifting like the trump gang.. they are destroying the planet and any chance of peace. they do it for money. dont let it happen. the world must stop them now. arrest them. end it now. the trump gang and the murderous military industrial profit machine people. they need to all go to jail.

  14. Jackson's Mayor and City Council are Democrats. Whatta shock! You deserve what you elect. Wake up people.

  15. When your home does not have access to running water, your Property Value drops to Zero. Poor people. Hopefully this will be a wakeup call to all Government Leaders in the area, but most importantly hopefully people there, and everyone else watching this unfold will become Preppers. ….Preppers are now becoming some of the smartest people in our Society. They were all laughed at in the past. Nobody is laughing anymore.

  16. Everything rises and falls on leadership

  17. the places that don't need or want rain are getting the rain.. so much rain that its destroyed there water system.. meanwhile there are other places that need rain but don't get rain and lakes are drying up severally to critically low levels…. this is the world we live in…

  18. And yet we sent billions to ukraine smh

  19. Use brawndo it’s got electrolytes

  20. Let's be clear, taxes don't pay for your water, your water bill does. The water infrastructure in this country is very old and outdated. The pumps that failed New Orleans during Katrina were built in the 1930s. It's a federal problem and should be addressed as such. Repairs aren't the solution, replacing must begin because at least 30%-40% of the country will have this problem. If blaming people is the solution, the problem won't get fixed.

  21. This is been going on for years. I have people that live in Jackson ms. I'm from Mississippi. Sad situation I tell ya.

  22. the city government can't run a pop corn stand , soon they will find a way to blame Trump.

  23. More than 20 years of liberal leadership of the City of Jackson. Ask them about garbage collection. That’s on the verge of collapsing too.

  24. its happening again because they got the same ignorant buffoons they voted in back then. Damn you for asking the federal government for money to fix your piss-poor decisisions. Pay your own way like everybody else. BUMS

  25. This is a failure of government at all levels. This is America, people, and it's 2022. Get your stuff together, get off the time-wasting politics of identity, and start fixing what's really broken. What have they been doing with the millions from the fed the last decade? Creating "bike lanes" and "green spaces?"

  26. The Governor The Mayor The City Council The City Supervisors all need to Resign ASAP.

  27. Thank you counsel man 🙏😢

  28. Dancing 💃 dolls A good reflex on life… you would think… making habitat for existing residents who where there before and not making resolution for it… I'm surprised 😮 that isn't the only thing…

  29. Things fall by the waist side for a reason…

  30. I was born & raised in Jackson. I remember when I was in 6th grade (currently 24) we were out of school an entire week because the water was unsafe. Although I’m glad this issue is finally getting attention, something should have been done YEARS ago!

  31. Tate Reeves and all the MS REPUBLICAN PARTY has robbed and stolen and denied Jackson it's resources for decades all by design that racism you can't see don't start talking about the education and lack of quality food situation this is new age racism the kind you don't see MS will continue and always be last long as Good Ole Boys Network(REPUBLICAN) are in charge

  32. Lol I’m not gonna watch this video but I’m just commenting to say now I know wassup.

  33. The condition of Jackson isn't the State's fault. Jackson, Mississippi was not like this back in the day. It started declining the year a democratic Mayor was elected and they've voted in democratic Mayor's ever since. The City of Jackson is 100% to blame but Jackson's elected officials are pocketing the tax money so, of course, they will never admit it…Bennie Thompson included. They've had plenty of time to fix these issues but all they do is talk, make false promises, and never take action. They blame everyone else for their mismanagement of the city. New Orleans is one of the oldest cities in America, it's literally a bowl that requires water to be pumped out 24/7 but they get it done and make sure their citizens have clean water. If other cities can do it, so can Jackson. The water was brown when I worked in Jackson 15 years ago, it's nothing new! No excuse whatsoever as to why this hasn't been fixed; the only logical cause is incompetence and corruption. Do you honestly think that 30 years of tax revenue isn't enough money to fix the water infrastructure? Everything the elected officials of Jackson touch turns to garbage. Not only do they have a water crisis that they've had more than enough time and resources to correct, Jackson also has the highest property taxes of any county in the state (the property taxes on large homes in Jackson average $5,000 to $7,000 EVERY year & my Honda car tag was $980 EVERY year I lived in Jackson…for a HONDA!) But the City of Jackson officials claim they don't have funds to fix the issues? Where is the money going??? In Jackson, prisioners literally walk out of the front door of the jails on a regular basis, the schools are the worst in the entire state, the city is full of abandoned drug houses, people are shot everyday, they find dead bodies laying in the streets, they can't get companies to pick up the garbage so it's flowing in the streets, there are pot holes and sink holes so big that a school bus fell in one (not an exaggeration, it was on the news) and, as of 2021, Jackson is the second deadliest city in America. Wake up people, those things don't just happen by accident. Why isn't anyone asking him about the tax money paid by the people of Jackson? Where is it? It certainly wasn't invested in the streets, schools, and water system. When EVERYTHING about a city is awful, it's obvious that the elected officials "running" the city are the ones to blame…PERIOD! For the life of me, I cannot fathom why the people of Jackson keep voting for these "leaders". They take your money and do absolutely nothing and the current condition of the city proves it. Stop voting these people in office just because they are the political party you support. Give someone else a chance to make the city better because you literally have nothing to lose at this point.

  34. They need to clean house.,

  35. How about doing what most cities do have bonds an keep upgrading their water system. Not whining about it after 20 years of not doing anything

  36. The National Guard should have water purification units. Why there isn't purification units from the US Army there already. Well it's nothing but a failure of the Socialist Biden Administration.