What’s behind Jackson, Mississippi’s continuing water crisis?

Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the mayor of the US metropolis, says the disaster is a consequence of ‘problems with environmental racism’.

Following floods that overwhelmed Mississippi state capital’s water therapy facility in August, the town’s roughly 160,000 residents have frequently lacked entry to protected consuming water and, in some circumstances, operating water in any respect.

Months after the flooding, water strain has been partially restored and a few federal and state assets have been allotted to restore the water system. Nevertheless, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba says the state of Mississippi isn’t doing sufficient to assist his metropolis and its residents, greater than 80 % of whom are Black.

“It’s problems with environmental racism. It’s a neighborhood that isn’t totally valued, and due to this fact the state doesn’t see any accountability or must fund the residents of Jackson, fund these challenges,” Lumumba says.

On UpFront, Mayor Lumumba joins Marc Lamont Hill to debate a few of the systemic points on the coronary heart of Jackson’s public well being disaster.