Jackson Mess

Jackson, Mississippi's capital and most populous city, is suffering a water crisis brought on by the flooding of the Pearl River that overwhelmed its water treatment system, but the disinvestment in Jackson's infrastructure has been a problem that has been worsening for decades.  Water is running in Jackson once again but it's unconsumable.

The lack of investment in black-majority Jackson is mainly due to white flight and the lack of, as the late Detroit mayor Coleman Young would put it, "plain damn money."  Jackson doesn't have enough of it, and the state can't be bothered to bail it out.  But much of the country doesn't care that Jacksonians have to rely on bottled water just to bathe when, meanwhile in Florida, everyone is really, really excited about the coming launch of the Artemis rocket that will test our ability to return to the moon (a launch that, as of this writing, has been delayed a second time).

NASA wants to go back to the moon and look at the possibility of water at the moon's south pole.  Excuse me? How about focusing on the finding water for the residents of Jackson?  Oh, and a woman and a person of color are going on the mission to find water on the moon?  News flash: There are black women in Jackson on a mission to find water right now! Let the Chinese play with sending humans to outer space so we can fix our own problems here on Earth!   Because we know the Chinese government doesn't care about their people anyway.

I understand that Chinese are having trouble finding water too.