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We’re Seeing the Devastation of Environmental Racism—From Mississippi to Pakistan
Sometimes, when an environmental catastrophe hits America there’s wall to wall media protection.
If it’s a flood, we see the identical photos gracing our screens: Homes, roads, faculties, and automobiles underwater—as soon as thriving neighborhoods washed away. If it’s a fireplace, hurricane, or twister the protection is analogous—you discuss to the locals with tears of their eyes standing in entrance of what was once their neighborhoods questioning how they’ll rebuild. There may be all the time the momentary outpouring of sympathy and cash—if, the truth is, the communities that have been broken have been stuffed with “common People.”
There isn’t a Black particular person in America who doesn’t know that the time period “common American” or “hard-working American” is a not too delicate code for white People—the individuals who get pleasure from an automated empathy denied to others.
Consequently, every time an environmental catastrophe happens in a largely Black neighborhood, there’s not often a TV crew to be seen—until in fact it is to ridicule and admonish individuals for scouring shops (as they did throughout Hurricane Katrina) for provides so they might survive.
In America, we rejoice the wealthy and we demonize the poor. Don’t consider it?
Look no additional than the disaster that’s unfolding in Jackson, Mississippi—or Flint, Michigan, New York Metropolis, Baltimore, et al. Closely populated Black and brown communities are receiving authorities orders to boil water (or to not drink all of it). What’s not following these alerts? A reprieve in water invoice funds.
Once we hear tales just like the travesty taking place in Jackson, Mississippi—with an 80 p.c Black inhabitants, the place a whole metropolis now not has entry to scrub consuming water, for ever and ever—there’s a short spasm of shock and outrage within the nation’s conscience, however that fades alongside photos of dilapidated buildings and neighborhoods that don’t resemble “common People.” The belief isn’t that the individuals struggling are additionally “onerous working People,” it’s that they’re lazy or harmful or in any other case deserving of poverty and substandard public works—like clear, operating water.
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Instances of bottled water are handed out at a Mississippi Speedy Response Coalition distribution web site on August 31, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson is experiencing a 3rd day with out dependable water service after river flooding precipitated the principle remedy facility to fail. Late Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden declared an emergency amid the disaster.
Picture by Brad Vest/Getty Photographs
The fact is that what’s taking place in Mississippi isn’t your common environmental catastrophe. It’s a end result of centuries of racism, neglect, and theft.
Jackson is a metropolis of over 160,000 residents which have handled underinvestment for many years. Final yr the state confronted one in all its harshest winters, which knocked the water offline for almost a month. The newest catastrophe, like earlier superstorms, has precipitated main flooding, disintegrated roadways, and rusted brown water coming from the pipes.
In the latest infrastructure invoice that President Joe Biden fought to make a actuality, tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} have been earmarked for locations precisely like Jackson, however sadly it’s left to state legislators to determine the place that cash is invested. Unsurprisingly, in a state that was probably the most vicious battlegrounds for civil rights, fundamental dwelling circumstances for Black taxpayers aren’t a excessive precedence.
An auditor not too long ago reported that Mississippi, the nation’s poorest state, spent $70 million earmarked for welfare recipients on speeches from a professional soccer participant, a volleyball complicated, a horse farm, and different ridiculous outlays. Whereas there’s at the moment a legal investigation underway, we will be pretty assured that no politician will really go to jail over this. As rapidly as this story got here to the highlight is as rapidly because the outrage will possible dissipate—and people welfare recipients determined for aid can be informed to attend just a bit whereas longer.
That’s how we deal with the poor in America. We make financial standing about “onerous work” versus systemic racism, discrimination, theft, and lies.
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Jamiya Williams, left, watches as her fiance, Terrence Carter, proper, pours bleach into the water earlier than washing dishes in response to the water disaster on September 01, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. The water stress elevated of their house on Wednesday, nevertheless the water remains to be unsafe to drink.
Picture by Brad Vest/Getty Photographs
Environmental racism is among the most insidious types of racism, whereby low earnings communities and communities of coloration are designated to be useless smack in the midst of areas that aren’t match for human existence. These embrace industrialized areas which might be hotbeds for air pollution, chemical runoff from vegetation, and poisonous fumes. What’s worse is that these areas are sometimes in low-lying plains, which means they are going to be extra inclined to superstorms (a symptom of local weather change). The well being penalties of dwelling in and round these areas are devastating, and embrace elevated threat of beginning defects, most cancers, and developmental points.
“Unsurprisingly, in a state that was probably the most vicious battlegrounds for civil rights, fundamental dwelling circumstances for Black taxpayers aren’t a excessive precedence.”
That is all disgraceful, but it surely’s not even the worst half, which is that these selections have been made purposefully to hurt Black and brown communities.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (in addition to Obama’s Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx) have said that racism was actually baked into the infrastructure on this nation.
“If you consider it, a lot of this infrastructure was paid for and designed earlier than the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” Foxx informed theGrio. “That was a time earlier than Black individuals have been on the desk.”
Because the Biden administration units out to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure, Secretary Buttigieg needs the nation to be extra equitable—in distinction to the rabid racism of Robert Moses, who within the mid-twentieth century constructed highways and overpasses particularly to maintain Black individuals out from entry to seashores and open areas in New York.
It was within the Eighties when the time period environmental racism took root, impressed by a 1983 GAO research which discovered that 75 p.c of communities in shut proximity to poisonous landfills have been predominantly Black. Extra research have been performed within the years since concerning the results of those selections, and the way they play into life expectancy.
Take into consideration this for a second. We don’t simply have a racial wealth hole in America, however a well being hole as nicely, which was most not too long ago uncovered through the COVID-19 pandemic.
What COVID did was exacerbate the problems that have been already plaguing Black and brown communities. Whereas many wish to simply blame the person on the subject of poverty, the truth is much extra complicated. Individuals stay the place they will afford to stay. When you’ve highways and energy vegetation which might be being designed to divide extremely populated Black communities, or construct factories that can pollute the surroundings all underneath the guise of “job creation,” you find yourself the place we are actually—with a stark a divide not simply between wealthy and poor, and Black and white, but in addition wholesome and sick.
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Native residents place sand baggage to organize a wall to guard inhabitants from flood waters in Mehar space after heavy monsoon rains in Dadu district, Sindh province on September 7, 2022. Document monsoon rains have precipitated devastating floods throughout Pakistan since June, killing greater than 1,200 individuals and leaving nearly a 3rd of the nation underneath water, affecting the lives of 33 million.
Picture by Aamir Qureshi/AFP through Getty Photographs
Tragically, environmental racism isn’t simply taking place within the U.S. We’re watching it play out on the world stage, particularly, in Pakistan. A 3rd of the nation is underwater proper now due to an unprecedented monsoon season that has displaced over 30 million individuals and killed hundreds. Most People are oblivious to the heartbreak happening on this largely Muslim nation, as a result of our mainstream media barely pays it discover. Pakistan is chargeable for lower than one p.c of the world’s carbon emissions, and but its individuals are paying for the greed of extra industrialized and whiter nations—who aren’t even providing the extent of financial assist this disaster deserves, not to mention the eye or the empathy.
From Jackson to Pakistan, it’s evident who’s going to pay the worth for local weather change and unrelenting capitalism. And it gained’t be the individuals who created this man-made catastrophe.
As Nina Simone sang so fantastically in her 1964 tune “Mississippi Goddam”:
“All I would like is equality, for my sister, my brother, my individuals and me”.
The Missouri offense was on the field for over two thirds of the No. 23-ranked Tigers’ victory over Mississippi State in Week 13, possessing the ball for 41 minutes and 51 seconds.
The Missouri offense played 79 snaps in the win, tying its previous high in snaps in SEC play from when the Tigers won over Vanderbilt in double overtime.
The full snap counts for both sides of the ball for Missouri revealed some interesting lineup moves. Here’s the full counts found on Pro Football Focus.
Offense
LG Cayden Green, 79, 100%
RT Armand Membou, 79, 100%
C Drake Heismeyer, 79, 100%
QB Brady Cook, 79, 100%
LT Marcus Bryant, 79, 100%
RG Cam’Ron Johnson, 79, 100%
TE Jordon Harris, 57, 72%
TE Brett Norfleet, 53, 67%
WR Joshua Manning, 49, 62%
WR Theo Wease Jr., 45, 57%
WR Luther Burden III, 38, 48%
HB Nate Noel, 37, 47%
WR Marquis Johnson, 33, 42%
WR Mekhi Miller, 26, 33%
HB Marcus Carroll, 21, 27%
HB Jamal Roberts, 20, 25%
LG Mitchell Walters, 9, 11%
WR Daniel Blood, 5, 6%
HB Kewan Lacy, 1, 1%
TE Tyler Stephens, 1, 1%
• Interesting to see Joshua Mannig get more snaps than any other wide receiver. The coaching staff have praised his run blocking ability before though, which was what he did on 35 of his snaps.
• Pretty impressive for Marcus Carroll to score three touchdowns while only playing 27% of snaps
Defense
CB Dreyden Norwood, 50, 100%
S Daylan Carnell, 47, 94%
LB Triston Newson, 45, 90%
S Joseph Charleston, 43, 86%
CB Toriano Pride Jr., 41, 82%
ED Johnny Walker Jr., 40, 80%
ED Zion Young, 35, 70%
LB Corey Flagg, 33, 66%
DL Kristian Williams, 33, 66%
S Caleb Flagg, 27, 54%
DL Chris McClellan, 27, 54%
DL Sterling Webb, 27, 54%
S Marvin Burks Jr., 23, 46%
LB Chuck Hicks, 22, 44%
DL Eddie Kelly Jr., 17, 34%
CB Nicholas Deloach Jr., 15, 30%
ED Jahkai Lang, 12, 24%
S Tre’Vez Johnson, 11, 22%
DL Marquis Gracial, 8, 16%
DL Jalen Marshall, 7, 14%
S Sidney Williams, 7, 14%
LB Nicholas Rodriguez, 2, 4%
• Nicholas Deloach Jr. was the more relied upon corner opposite of Dreydon Norwood for each of the past two games, but Toriano Pride Jr. stepped back into that role in this one.
• With Tre’Vez Johnson dealing with some sort of injury, Caleb Flagg saw some more playing time at safety.
Offense
LT Marcus Bryant, 764, 100%
RT Armand Membou, 756, 99%
RG Cam’Ron Johnson, 679, 89%
LG Cayden Green, 673, 88%
QB Brady Cook, 602, 79%
C Connor Tollison, 582, 76%
WR Theo Wease Jr., 566, 74%
WR Luther Burden III, 492, 64%
TE Brett Norfleet, 359, 47%
TE Jordon Harris, 331, 43%
WR Joshua Manning, 329, 43%
WR Mookie Cooper, 328, 43%
HB Nate Noel, 323, 42%
WR Mekhi Miller, 313, 41%
G Mitchell Walters, 265, 34%
HB Marcus Carroll, 239, 31%
C Drake Heismeyer, 232, 30%
WR Marquis Johnson, 223, 29%
QB Drew Pyne, 217, 28%
HB Jamal Roberts, 193, 25%
TE Tyler Stephens, 126, 17%
WR Daniel Blood, 119, 16%
T Jayven Richardson, 57, 7%
G Logan Reichert, 56, 7%
G Tristan Wilson, 49, 6%
HB Kewan Lacy, 43, 5%
G Curtis Peagler, 26, 3%
HB Tavorus Jones, 24, 3%
TE Jude James, 21, 3%
WR James Madison II, 13, 2%
WR Courtney Crutchfield, 10, 1%
WR Logan Muckey, 8, 1%
C Talan Chandler, 7, 1%
TE Whit Hafer, 3, 0%
QB JR Blood, 2, 0%
Defense
CB Dreyden Norwood, 517, 79%
S Marvin Burks Jr., 475, 73%
S Daylan Carnell, 465, 71%
ED Johnny Walker Jr., 445, 68%
CB Toriano Pride Jr., 438, 67%
DL Kristian Williams, 401, 61%
ED Zion Young, 397, 61%
S Joseph Charleston, 384, 59%
LB Triston Newson, 380, 58%
DL Chris McClellan, 370, 57%
LB Corey Flagg, 345, 53%
CB Nicholas Deloach Jr., 313, 48%
S Tre’Vez Johnson, 269, 41%
LB Chuck Hicks, 258, 39%
DL Sterling Webb, 236, 36%
S Sidney Williams, 236, 36%
DL Eddie Kelly Jr., 223, 34%
LB Khalil Jacobs, 223, 34%
ED Jahkai Lang, 185, 28%
DL Marquis Gracial, 139, 21%
S Caleb Flagg, 124, 19%
DL Jalen Marshall, 114, 17%
ED Joe Moore, 105, 16%
LB Nicholas Rodriguez, 103, 16%
DL Sam Williams, 49, 8%
CB Marcus Clarke, 44, 7%
ED Williams Nwaneri, 38, 6%
S Jaylen Brown, 37, 6%
S Trajen Greco, 36, 6%
DB Shamar McNeil, 32, 5%
LB Jeremiah Beasley, 28, 4%
DB Phillip Roche, 24, 4%
DB Ja’Marion Wayne, 22, 3%
DL Elias Williams, 11, 2%
LB Brayshawn Littlejohn, 11, 2%
LB Brian Huff, 8, 1%
CB Jaren Sensabaugh, 6, 1%
CB Justin Bodford, 6, 1%
CB Cameron Keys, 6, 1%
CB Nasir Pogue, 6, 1%
LB Brady Hultman, 2, 0%
LB Will Norris, 1, 0%
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Anyone pushing for Mississippi to be in the College Football Playoff at this point is either on the payroll of the Southeastern Conference or wants to be at some point in the future.
That’s the truth, as plain and simple as it can be after the Rebels choked away the best opportunity in the history of their program Saturday, losing 24-17 at Florida.
No SEC championship game.
No playoff.
No nothin’, other than a New Year’s trip to Orlando or some such place that will force everyone in the program to pretend they’re honored and happy to be there.
And given the vaunted name, image and likeness payroll Lane Kiffin had to work with this year, it’s nothing less than a massive program-wide choke job. You want to play with the big boys after all these years? Fine, go ahead.
But you better take care of business. Instead, Ole Miss messed around and put together one of the most disappointing and confounding seasons they’ve ever had.
With all the hype, all the talent, all the momentum behind Kiffin after they dominated Georgia two weeks ago, are you really going to tell me the Rebels couldn’t do better than 5-for-18 on third and fourth down against a Florida team left for dead weeks ago?
We can break down all the mistakes Ole Miss made in this game from Kiffin’s hard-headedness in handing the ball to defensive tackle JJ Pegues in short yardage to a missed 34-yard field goal to a muffed punt return that handed Florida three points to quarterback Jaxson Dart refusing to tighten his chin strap. There are a lot of things Kiffin will regret.
But the bottom line is pretty straightforward. No team with losses to Florida, LSU and Kentucky should be within a mile of the playoff. And the worst part for Kiffin is that it was so avoidable.
Yeah, the SEC is tough. So what? We’re in a new era here with the 12-team playoff. In a league like the SEC, you can survive losses, especially if you also have good wins.
There has to be a limit, though. Three is just too many.
Florida’s playing well toward the end of the season, but a real playoff team goes into Gainesville and handles a Florida team that just got its sixth win.
LSU is a big brand name with lots of talent, but the Tigers are 6-4 and just not very good.
Kentucky almost certainly isn’t going to a bowl game.
Had any of those three games gone the other way, it would have almost certainly put Ole Miss in the 12-team field. The Georgia win was that valuable, and beating South Carolina 27-3 is one of the more underrated great performances of the season given how good the Gamecocks have been otherwise.
And at some point, there will be a three-loss team in the expanded playoff. Maybe even this year.
But it shouldn’t be Ole Miss. It can’t be Ole Miss, not when those losses all occurred to average or worse opponents.
You have to point the finger at Kiffin. Yes, he’s elevated the Rebels’ program significantly. But for years, his record in the really important games that define seasons has been questionable. After the Georgia win, that narrative was starting to turn. If Ole Miss had simply beaten Florida and Mississippi State, it would have all but locked up its spot. And Kiffin would have been arguably the most important figure in the modern history of Ole Miss football.
Maybe he will be one day. But it’s not going to be this year.
For Ole Miss to implode and miss the playoff with such a stacked roster, and when most of the hard work had been done, is a crushing disappointment.
It’s also a gift to the likes of Indiana and Tennessee. The manner in which the Hoosiers were beaten 38-15 by Ohio State certainly frames their resurgence a bit differently. They didn’t look the part at all and will end the season without any standout wins. But assuming they beat 1-10 Purdue next week, there’s little chance the committee can drop them below Ole Miss.
The Vols also stand to benefit from the developments in Gainesville. The first team out this week, according to the committee, they are in much better position heading into next Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt.
SEC homers will undoubtedly argue that both the Vols and Rebels should be in. Already this week, commissioner Greg Sankey was on social media sharing some strength of schedule data as he begins his public lobbying effort to stack the bracket with SEC teams.
And while the SEC is probably the best and deepest conference, you’d have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to conclude that the parity we’ve seen is evidence that it’s stacked with great teams. What’s closer to the truth is that the SEC has several pretty good, but deeply flawed teams, whose inconsistencies tend to show up on the road.
The SEC will spend the next couple weeks claiming that the league’s depth means all of them should be in the playoff. The committee shouldn’t — and won’t — fall for it. Sorry, Ole Miss. But you’re out.
Mississippi
What channel is Mississippi State football vs Missouri on today? Time, TV schedule to watch Week 13 game
Mississippi State football comes off a bye week with a chance to earn a win over nationally-ranked Missouri on Saturday.
The Bulldogs (2-8, 0-6) last played on Nov. 9 in a loss at Tennessee and have two more games against SEC opponents this year.
The Tigers (7-3, 3-3) lost a back-and-forth game at South Carolina last weekend.
Here’s how to watch the Mississippi State football vs. Missouri game today, including time, TV schedule and streaming information:
Mississippi State vs. Missouri will broadcast nationally on SEC Network in Week 13 of the 2024 college football season. Taylor Zarzour and Matt Stinchcomb will call the game from the booth at Davis Wade Stadium, with Alyssa Lang reporting from the sidelines. Streaming options for the game include FUBO, which offers a free trial to new subscribers.
- Date: Saturday, Nov. 23
- Start time: 3:15 p.m. CT
The Mississippi State football vs. Missouri game starts at 3:15 p.m. CT Saturday from Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville.
Clarion Ledger reporter Sam Sklar’s prediction: Missouri 37, Mississippi State 20
The Bulldogs are allowing 41 points per game in SEC play, and it’s difficult to see Missouri not having the same level of success. Expect big days from Burden and/or Wease, plus running back Nate Noel as MSU loses another game by double digits.
Odds courtesy of BetMGM as of Friday, Nov. 22
- Odds: Missouri -7.5
- O/U: 61.5 points
- Money line: Missouri -300, Mississippi State +240
- Aug. 31: EKU, W 56-7
- Sept. 7: at Arizona State, L 30-23
- Sept. 14: Toledo, L 41-17
- Sept. 21: Florida, L 45-28
- Sept. 28: at Texas, L 35-13
- Oct. 5: OPEN DATE
- Oct. 12: at Georgia, L 41-31
- Oct. 19: Texas A&M, L 34-24
- Oct. 26: Arkansas, L 58-25
- Nov. 2: UMass, W 45-20
- Nov. 9: at Tennessee, L 33-14
- Nov. 16: OPEN DATE
- Nov. 23: Missouri, 3:15 p.m. on SEC Network
- Nov. 29: at Ole Miss, 2:30 p.m. on ABC and ESPN+
Record: 2-8 (0-6 SEC)
- Aug. 29: Murray State, W 51-0
- Sept. 7: Buffalo, W 38-0
- Sept. 14: Boston College, W 27-21
- Sept. 21: Vanderbilt, W 30-27 2OT
- Sept. 28: OPEN DATE
- Oct. 5: at Texas A&M, L 41-10
- Oct. 12: at UMass, W 45-3
- Oct. 19: Auburn, W 21-17
- Oct. 26: at Alabama, L 34-0
- Nov. 2: OPEN DATE
- Nov. 9: Oklahoma, W 30-23
- Nov. 16: at South Carolina, L 34-30
- Nov. 23: at Mississippi State, 4:15 p.m. on SEC Network
- Nov. 30: Arkansas, TBD
Record: 7-3, 3-3 SEC
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