Thread by @ProtesterLone

I appreciate all the engagement and new followers I've picked up from doing some deep dives into the Jackson, MS #watercrisis.

We have to learn to "read" these partly real/partly fictionalized stories for what they are: an attempt by one party to change how we see the world.

Maybe Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is competent in some respects, but he's utterly failed to keep the water flowing, despite repeated efforts by the Feds and the State to make him.

And the White House is rewarding him by making him a hero. He's not a hero. This is all politics.

We have to learn enough about "big" stories like this to push back on the awful "narrative" foisted on us by the international media conglomerates and the DC Deep State. It's a bit easier here because while the city is blue, the state is red, and so the local media is mostly ok.

The "narrative" is very clunky, but makes sort of sense if we see Jackson as a variant on Flint, MI, and post-Katrina New Orleans: poor, mostly black towns where the water ran out and large numbers of innocent people suffered the consequences.

Without getting into those other cases, let me say that Jackson is different. It's a lot smaller than New Orleans, and less catastrophically situated. It is not an abandoned rust belt town like Flint either, though the narrative stresses that white flight was just as bad there.

But Mississippi is not a rustbelt state. It's growing. And Jackson could be thriving, but it suffers from corruption and bad governance. This water fight is but an offshoot of that bad governance. But it's being made to stand for so much more.

The State basically had to step in, fix the problem, pick up the $8m tab, and still gets called racist by the Mayor and the media. How does that work? It shouldn't.