Stokes can push for plan 3 if she wants to. She thinks it will get her another group of voters that will easily be fouled by her and her husbands BS. What is more likely to happen is she will get herself a serious challenge for her council seat.

Donna I am sorry ignorant people don't understand stand or read before deciding to criticize and then can't do it in a civil manner. She apparently doesn't realize her behavior just made JSU look bad not the damn cartoon.
Anyways, as a young mom (early 30s) of teens I have been reminding my friends how utterly ridiculous and "unhireable" we and the people we dated looked as teens. Those same friends now are nurses, run restaurants, have Phds, teachers, are in law school, stay at home moms with degrees, and business owners. Yes, indeed some of have traveled a harder road that has included unemployment, drugs, and imprisonment. Those events were not due to their clothes. It had to do with life effects and structural factors. If the city council and the school were truly concerned with these kids lives they would start addressing the system set up to criminalize being a teen. A system which makes it easy for you to became a return visitor for its services once you have been in. They fight the structural causes that make young people feel they need gangs vs. making up gang activity where there it none. They are choosing not to do any of those things. Those things take real work, planning, and cooperation. It is far easier to call parents stupid, teens lazy, disrespectful, rude, indecent, and thuggish and attack their dress style than to make real change. It is also easier to control low income student populations through oppressive policies than to fund better education to stimulate their minds.

I won't forget you dear friend! I have great I knew you when stories and I will never forget you standing up for the women of Mississippi during 26. I miss you so much already we had activism in the works for this fall and the void created by your death can not be filled by any one person.

Thank you Victoria as someone who has had the pleasure to meet you I can say you are an awesome person and an asset to the community. I am glad you are willing to call out the prejudiced attitudes that exist on your campus regarding the community they reside in. I live in Midtown we know Milsaps doesn't trust us. We are reminded of it every day we drive by the big fence and the fact that many of us know students are scared to live or volunteer in our neighborhood. What gives me hope are all the students, like you, who do step out and see the beauty in our city. They see us for more than our flaws and see my neighborhood for more than empty houses and young men in saggy pants. Thank you again for a great piece.

You're so right! It is harassment pure and simple. I never felt so judged by people I had never spoken to as the day I went to a PP in Indiana that performed abortions for a pregnancy test. They didn't know what I was there for and it shouldn't have mattered. Women should be able to go to a doctor's office without being harassed by anyone especially strangers.
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth as a member of the ACLU that in order to insure my right to protest them I have to fight for their right to speech too. What offends me much more is the fact that the FACE act is not really being upheld and enforced.

All of his statements were insulting, insulting to young people, insulting to their parents, and insulting to the city of Jackson especially those in the very neighborhoods that vote for him.

Thank you Jesse thank you

I agree maple and the thing is several of the kids doing positive things wear saggy pants. Many good fathers wear saggy pants. This whole issue has little to do with indecency and a whole lot to do with stereotypes, class, race, age, and people feeling they have the right to tell certain groups of people what to do.

Why give him credit though, credit for what? Not working on what really needs to be worked on like the jail BEFORE the riot. Being an opportunist who likes issues that sound good but do nothing as far as actual impact. He has been getting away with his dog and pony, don't look behind the curtain show for way too long. I say enough! If I have to go to every meeting to call him on his BS I will.

While supervisor Stokes concerned about good role models and the future of Jackson's children is admirable perhaps he could lead the way by using proper English. One would think that elected leaders are thought of as role models right?