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Nov 06, 2009 | 06:42 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Ronni M: Bubba, like most things, it's only unimportant if it has no affect on *your* life. If you were an African American, I expect you'd feel differently about your home-town media organization that espouses diversity and then puts zero effort into actually being diverse. Some of us would call that a lie. You know, like when a ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 05:27 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Ironghost: I think you were the one I pointed out asking about the divisiveness of the issue. I'd have to go back and make sure I attributed it right. It was before I made Chili, so...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 05:08 PM
JFP People of the Day: Barbara Taylor and Jerry Mosley
L.W.: That's great! Maybe I will see them at the walk tomorrow. I'm so glad that people are opening up more and more about mental health issues. It's about time! By the way, more about tomorrow's event: http://www.jacksonfr eepress.com/index.php/sit e/comments/namiwalks_is_t omorrow/

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Nov 06, 2009 | 04:57 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Queen601: No idea why I'm biting on this, but Ironghost, I'd love to know which one of those categories you've placed me in....I'd choose to think neither, since I'm not a usual player here. I can't remember the last time I posted on this site as a matter of fact. And BubbaT, there have been some way less important, long drawn out topics ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 04:37 PM
New Look, New Name for Downtown Restaurant
thabian: They do...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 03:29 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
BubbaT: Brian- I just did a quick count, but they aren't far off. Wasn't trying to be scientific, just a rough count. Not that it matters anyway. I think the whole discussion is ridiculous. I really don't care if the JFP has 100% black faces in their pictures or the VIP has 100% white faces in theirs, or what page those pictures are on. This ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 02:42 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Brian C Johnson: Bubba, if were to apply the same measure to this issue of the JFP that the index applied to VIP, the first black face appears on page 1, if we count the cover, page 2 if we count the advertising, and page 3 if we count the first page of content. No one has claimed that a publication has to exactly mirror the demographics of ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 02:13 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
golden eagle: I'm a little late on this, but I found some numbers on the percentages of black in the metro area. This is as of 2000, but Hinds County was 61.1% black, Madison at 37.5% and Rankin at 17.1%, so the average is 38.5%. If you add in Copiah and Simpson counties, it's even higher at around 40%.

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Nov 06, 2009 | 02:00 PM
New Look, New Name for Downtown Restaurant
Deirdra Harris Glover: Does anyone know offhand if Suniora's takes plastic?

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Nov 06, 2009 | 01:10 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Ironghost:

Actually, I don't know what 90 percent of our readership is going to decide, Iron. Considering how diverse our readership is, it'd be remarkable to get 90 percent of y'all to decide on anything. ;-)

Ah, there's the "Aw Shucks" attitude! I knew it was somewhere. Why all the fuss if the VIP is going down? I'm sure it'll be on the ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 09:53 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: Also, someone pointed out to me yesterday that The Clarion-Ledger has taken up a lot of the VIP Jackson racks, apparently reduced the print run on it, shrunk its size and is now mailing it to households in certain zip codes. I wonder who on here gets it now? That person's theory is that they have repositioned it for a whiter audience ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 09:35 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: Actually, I don't know what 90 percent of our readership is going to decide, Iron. Considering how diverse our readership is, it'd be remarkable to get 90 percent of y'all to decide on anything. ;-) I will add something to what you said, Queen: We are not only black and white, either. And the JFP's constant struggle is to cover other ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 09:24 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Ironghost:

As I said, we report, y'all decide, Queen. ;-)

Donna, you know what 90% of your readership is going to decide given statistics like that. The rest of us are cynics, I suppose.

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Nov 06, 2009 | 09:23 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Queen601: These folks can print all the white folks they want in their publication....just rename the freak'n magazine. I repeat: DO NOT SAY YOU ARE REPRESENTING JACKSON, MS IF YOU ARE NOT REPRESENTING BLACK AND WHITE. We are both. NOt one or the other! GET IT RIGHT!!!!

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Nov 06, 2009 | 09:19 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: Baquan, we do cover diverse functions, participate in them and sponsor them (even those that are, frankly, majority African American and not so "diverse.") If you mean party pictures, we don't really have space to devote to that in the print publication -- too much real content to get to y'all. However, anybody can post photos to ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 09:17 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: As I said, we report, y'all decide, Queen. ;-) To you, Bubba: Trying to play gotcha, huh? Here's the link to the flip of our current issue so anyone could see what they think: http://www.jacksonfr eepress.com/pages/v8.08/< /a> We'll stack our percentage of images against VIP's any day. And ours varies greatly; some sections and issues are ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 09:08 AM
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baquan2000: Queen, I don't find it funny - I find it interesting. Maybe JFP needs to start doing features on "diverse" functions, since VIP Jackson doesn't really have an interest? Ladd - no more ideas, since you won't let me come on payroll under my moniker. ;-)!

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Nov 06, 2009 | 09:01 AM
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Queen601: Just for the record, I would not call what I felt when I read these numbers "surprised" by any stretch. I wasn't surprised at the numbers, nor was I surprised that JFP printed them, Donna. So then the question becomes....What now? I ask this of the readers who actually care about the numbers here; who are bothered, concerned, ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 08:57 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
lanier77: Thanks JFP for bringing this to light - I picked up a copy of VIP JXN many months ago, flipped through it, saw nothing that appealed to me and wondered why they named it VIP JXN. Those pics took me back to the late 60s when I was a little girl growing up in Jackson, and I never saw anything in the mainstream paper that reflected my ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 08:41 AM
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baquan2000: But you know what, in all honesty - it goes to show the true interaction between the two communities. There really is none. I know I keep harping on Chicago, but I have to reflect on how it was at home. I grew up with every nationality, and no one ran or sold their house when a different nationality moved in. My neighbor on the ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 08:12 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
rnpolen: Is that not a legitimate point, JFP? If the whole issue is a lack of representation among African Americans in a majority AA city... then it doesn't seem like JFP is doing much better... Just an honest question... Should you guys be the ones bringing this issue up if you're only having 35% representation among the majority ...

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Nov 06, 2009 | 06:23 AM
NAMIWalks 2009: Help me continue to stomp out the stigma of mental illness!
L.W.: BUMP! NAMIWalks is tomorrow! There's still time to give if you wish to do so. You can donate online at http://www.nami.org/ namiwalks09/MIS/lwillis or send a check to: NAMI Mississippi 411 Briarwood Dr, Ste 401 Jackson, MS 39206 Please be sure to indicate that the donation is for The Church ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 11:02 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
BubbaT: Just for kicks I did a rough count of the number of blacks and whites in pictures in the flip version of the JFP. Black- 38 White- 109 And ya'll are fussing about VIP Jackson?..lol

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Nov 05, 2009 | 08:10 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
RealMaxwell: VIP Jackson is a contrivance to sell advertising.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 07:27 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: It's not disingenuous, rnpolen, because it's called VIP Jackson. However, as Tom has pointed out, those 4.7 percent black faces don't stand up well if you also include the entire metro in the equation. No doubt, VIP has a suburban feel, but that's beside the point. It's not not black people don't live in the suburbs, too. And I agree ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 06:20 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
rnpolen: JFP is being disingenuous in trying to paint VIP Jackson magazine as a publication that strictly represents the city... I've always seen that publication as something that would appeal to suburbanites primarily... therefore I could care less about it. HOWEVER, perhaps the magazine shouldn't call itself "VIP Jackson" if it does not ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 06:06 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: Ahem: Mainstreaming and Diversity Are Gannett's Core Values Except in its party-picture magazines? Of course, there is a lot of concern that corporate media is turning away from diversity since their readerships started tanking. It makes no sense, of course; younger readers expect diversity and, uh, our president is black. How stuck in ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 05:46 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Tom Head: Indeed. In fact, it's notably less diverse than Madison (92.5% white) and Brandon (87% white), so even if it were limited to predominantly white suburbs, it wouldn't be representative. Add Jackson and Canton into the demographic mix and any claims that it represents the Jackson/metro area, or Jackson/metro "VIPs," is ludicrous.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 05:29 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: Well, it's not like this comes anywhere near representing the metro, either, eh? So much for that excuse, QB.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 05:25 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Tom Head: Donna writes: "I mean, are only white Jacksonians 'VIPs'? Really?" That's what bugged me about the VIP Jackson name even when it was an independent publication (and had the same problem): if you have a "VIP" publication in a 73% black city and define the "VIP" crowd as >95% white, what message are you sending? "Also, Tom and QB, I ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 05:10 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: Oh, and the reason I noticed how white this VIP Jackson was in the first place is that I looked out the special section about Mistletoe Marketplace one of the recent Sundays in the Ledger. I live among such diversity that it it simply shocking to see something so white put out in our city. In my media-diversity work, we often point out ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 05:05 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: I think it's kind of cheesy for the JFP to put this innuendo up and not follow through on it. What do you mean: not follow through on it? And it's not innuendo. It's numbers. And y'all will be seeing more JFP Indexes in upcoming issues; we used to do them a lot. There's something about hard, cold numbers that can lead to great ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 04:58 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Tom Head: Even if we include the entire metro area, VIP Jackson is still ludicrously white. Hell, VIP Jackson is statistically whiter than Madison (which is about 7% black).

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Nov 05, 2009 | 04:57 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
ladd: We report, y'all decide. ;-) It looks like reporting some hard facts about a publication that supposedly represents *Jackson* (that's in the title, not VIP Metro Jackson) and by the world's largest newspaper company that brags about its media diversity has had exactly the effect I hoped for: getting people talking about media diversity. ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 03:26 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Queen601: I'm not sure what my take is on this being printed. On one hand I am very glad that this has been exposed. But on the other hand, I have had it with all the limelight given to this ridiculousness. And it seems to be some frequent in some areas of our media market. Now, if this being printed is going to rally the troops and people ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:58 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:55 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:47 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Reximus: Kaze- are there podcasts for your shows on MPB? I heard part of one a few weeks ago and then got distracted by a phone call

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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:44 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
baquan2000: I wish you were wrong too 'Kaze, but the truth hurts. It's a shame the business community of Jackson ignores the success models of Raleigh and Charlotte, NC, Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA! But you constantly hear about tax revenue's being short for the state! It all ties in! It's 2009, not 1969! It's a global market now. Those ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:40 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
Reximus: Hollywood is going to run out of funny fat men-LOL

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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:35 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Kamikaze: Gladly Rex, thanks for asking. And dont want to get off topic but... This "Metro Jackson" concept is mostly championed by Jackson. (Like creating a Metro Chamber when all the other counties Madison, Rankin have their own seperate ones). We're the ones always reaching out to embrace or surrounding bedroom communities, trying to work ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:19 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
Tom Head: Rex, there's an urban legend that the role is cursed because John Candy purchased rights to play Ignatius after Belushi died, and then he died before he could do the role, too. Then Chris Farley purchased the rights, and he died. So that's three people in a row who purchased the film rights and planned on playing ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:09 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
baquan2000: Queen - I understand your frustration. IN actuality, I am glad they pointed those statistics out. It warrants attention and how the layout is made. You have people advertising in that magazine, and if they want my dollars, then they should be called out for it. You don't want to associate with african-americans, but you don't mind ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:08 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Reximus: ."and again that "Metro" concept is a phantom concept only practiced by us and never reciprocated." could you expound on that?

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Nov 05, 2009 | 02:05 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Kamikaze: Yeah Rex...those people really tick me off too! :-/ Cuz ironically, I AM in it(newest issue)! and Im STILL a little puzzled as to why the ratio isnt better. Just sayin. and again. Im not(cant speak for anyone else) saying its intentional. ..and again that "Metro" concept is a phantom concept only practiced by us and never ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:51 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Reximus: "Clear disdain for the CL" is like saying G Beck doesn't always side with Pres. Obama.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:48 PM
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QB: While the city of Jackson itself may be 70% african american, VIP is a magazine for the metro area which has a white majority. It's a little disingenuous to post those statistics when the photographs are from an event that might have taken place in Madison County or have Madison County residents in it.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:45 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Queen601: ...but I would like to know what JFP is hoping to gain from presenting this information. Is this just to inform the readers? Is this to cause a stir? Is this to make us stop reading the Clarion Ledger? What is the positive that is to come from printing this negative information and bringing it to our attention? I'm sure there is one ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:39 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Queen601: I don't mean to present a "whoa-is-me" disposition here, but I must say that I am so sick of this same ole arguement here in Jackson. First off, every week there is some racial discrimination uncovered in the JFP. Maybe not "every" week", but enough. So, my concern is that as many steps forward as we take trying to be a progressive ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:38 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Ironghost: I think it's kind of cheesy for the JFP to put this innuendo up and not follow through on it. Come on, Donna! I want to know if we're interpreting this how ya'll wanted.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:36 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Reximus: I'm confused. I hear people trash that publication, and then ##### about not being in it. That's like talking trash about a woman who just shot you down. Hi-larious, indeed.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:32 PM
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Kamikaze: Really Rex? REALLY LMAO. Hi-Larious. There probably wouldnt be a need for mags like Jet or Ebony or Essence if there wasnt seemingly exclusion from mags like VIP. whether intended or not. Just look at the mag. Look at those stats. Its not like Al Sharpton came in here and made up some numbers and erased some pics in VIP to cause a ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:30 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Reximus: That was a joke, B. Try developing a sense of humor.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:23 PM
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baquan2000: well Reximus, why don't you lament over the lack of caucasian representation in Latina Magazine, or how about Urban Latino, or why not the Tehelka, we can't forget Asian Week!? Poor argument there!? VIP Jackson is not an ethnic magazine! Why don't you check into your "EUROPEAN" roots and see who you are? Polish, German, Irish, ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 01:06 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
BubbaT: J.T. they have a farm near Hollandale my father and uncles use to do work for them on their cotton gin.(I don't think they run the gin anymore) I guess he was visiting when I was introduced to him at their farm headquarters, Daddy told me who he was after we left.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 12:58 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
Reximus: I'd heard that John Belushi had purchased the film rights to "Dunces" shortly before his death. That would have been great if he had played Ignatious...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 12:56 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Reximus: I've often lamented the lack of caucasian representation in JET magazine. Oh well....

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Nov 05, 2009 | 12:56 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
J.T.: Cool, Bubba, that you met Percy. Wasn't his cousin a lawyer, writer/poet, farmer/planter? Rex, what a Christmas gift.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 12:43 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
Reximus: when I was in high school, one Christmas my uncle gave me 3 books, all set in New Orleans (he lived there at the time) One was "Love in the Ruins" by Walker Percy, the other two were "Interview with a Vampire" & "A Confederacy of Dunces". The latter should be required reading,

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Nov 05, 2009 | 12:26 PM
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Kamikaze: And incidentally. There were a ton of AA folks at the storytellers ball (which was incorrectly identified as being at a Country Club) but alas only 2 photos. Dunno. Puzzling

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Nov 05, 2009 | 12:21 PM
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BubbaT: Percy contracted TB from performing an autopsy while interning at Bellevue Hospital in 1941. His personal library of 2500 books was given/purchased by the Univ. of NC library in 1999. I met him once when I was in high school at the Percy's farm. Had no idea he was a writer at the time, thought he was just another ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 12:07 PM
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baquan2000: 'Kaze you said it best! They "DON'T" reach into the African American community, the effort is not there and they can care less! My fiance' was in there (Jackson VIP) and she was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay in the back of the magazine! lol!!!! She didn't really take offense to it, because she just said - "that's the way it is. So if she isn't ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 12:00 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
J.T.: Rex, I think I inadvertently mis-stated: Percy left his residency with TB, I think; I don't think he was every able to actually practice. I might be wrong. The way I said it implied he was actually in practice when he became ill.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 11:50 AM
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J.T.: To Reximus's "And we need a Walker Percy Library while we're at it." Rave on. Rex, his "The Last Gentleman" is so top knotch. Thomas Merton called it "one of the most intelligent and sophisticated statements about the South and about America.. . .I would call it one of the sanest books I have read in a long time." ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 11:48 AM
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Kamikaze: Maybe if they knew about them Rex then they would. Methinks a lot of these events are planned w/o a push to the AA community in miind. Especially those that are held at area country clubs. Not saying its done on purpose of course but the oversight has just become commonplace.Perhaps the promotions/marketing outlets they use dont ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 11:42 AM
2009 New Orleans Saints = Real Deal?
Lady Havoc: The Saints are good: Brees is my QA on our Fantasy Football team. But when it comes to loaylty, win or lose, my heart is with the Bengals!

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Nov 05, 2009 | 11:10 AM
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golden eagle: A sad but true statement: I have no idea who Ellen Douglas is.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 10:36 AM
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Ironghost: Considering how many people just call it "the Rez"? I think if anyone seriously wanted to call it Stokes Pond, no one would go there anymore.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 10:30 AM
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Queen601: ...just a little salty.....

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Nov 05, 2009 | 10:28 AM
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Reximus: Aren't most of the pics in that thing taken at fundraisers and benefits? Maybe if there were better AA representation at said events it would be different.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 10:24 AM
[Balko] Bad Prosecutors, Mississippi and Beyond
justjess: Still another issue is the fact that some (most)judges are anxious to get certain cases solved. These are either elected or appointed positions to fill a vacated term. It looks good to the community if bad folks who rape and kill are quickly apprehended, tried and given the ultimate punishment: It doesn't matter ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 10:24 AM
2009 New Orleans Saints = Real Deal?
Queen601: Yeah, the hype is quieting since T.O. is gone and Romo has been so inconsistent. However, they have it in 'em. They will get it together. This year may not be our year, but don't count them out all together. OMG, Saints vs Vikings.......wow! That would be a huge, huge game. GREAT! I serioulsy think I'd still go for the more ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 10:18 AM
[Balko] Bad Prosecutors, Mississippi and Beyond
justjess: Pilgrim, It would not take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. The prosecutors and their victim's stories are crystal clear. The prosecutors are mostly white males from the Great Soverign States of the South. Their victims are poor black males without resources to hire competent legal representation. When ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 10:08 AM
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Reximus: Thanks, IG, I"ve always wondered about that. So that leads us to the question of whom we should rename it for. Maybe the Kenneth I. Stokes Reservoir? LMAO

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Nov 05, 2009 | 10:01 AM
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Ironghost: Rex: best I can tell is that it was named for him because he signed the bill that finally started the project. It had languished since the 30's as a project that needed to be done but wasn't even put into motion. The Rez was constructed as a water supply for Jackson, finally built for it, then it wasn't actually ...

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Nov 05, 2009 | 09:58 AM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
Reximus: Was the rez named for Barnett as some sort of tribute, or because it was created under his direction/initiative? I was only a kid back then? And we need a Walker Percy Library while we're at it.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 09:38 AM
Is Beleaguered Bon Air Back?
justjess: There should be a paper trail on this money. Sounds like too much to gain so little. Just saying.

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Nov 05, 2009 | 09:26 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Ironghost: ...and this exercise in statistics proves what? That VIP has the same reputation as the Northside Sun but in magazine form?

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Nov 05, 2009 | 08:36 AM
[Balko] Bad Prosecutors, Mississippi and Beyond
Pilgrim: Any legal eagles able to offer insight on why prosecutors that have been caught at doing things, like the current supreme court case, have not been charged and/or disbarred?

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Nov 05, 2009 | 08:33 AM
Healthcare "forum" being held this Sunday in Brandon
Pilgrim: Tempting to turn up with a sign to join the protesters saying Healthcare I’ve got mine. F*** everyone else. Gotta wonder if that would make the news…

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Nov 04, 2009 | 09:11 PM
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ladd: Rex, there are huge green signs hanging above the interstate that call it by its real name. It's disgusting. Tom, I admire Ellen Douglas, too; my point was that I wasn't against the Tisdale naming because I wanted her on there; I was against the Tisdale naming because I think his newspaper was poor quality and he was ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 09:11 PM
God’s Tool
Deanna: I saw Skip at the Jackson Art Collective and he was amazing. Did spoken word poetry. I bought the CD Women Revolution Tennis Shoes and love it. I especially like the little sound bites between songs, gives it an historical depth.

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Nov 04, 2009 | 07:43 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
J.T.: Thanks, Powerman, I hear your heart in this blog. I appreciate what you are saying and I agree with you that racism in our past infects us everywhere in our nation, still today, and as we move forward, if we are to heal, we are all charged with upholding the best in each of us of every race, color, creed, gender, sexual ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 07:22 PM
2009 New Orleans Saints = Real Deal?
itodd: Well, I'll still root for the Cowboys over anyone in the NFC East (or the Steelers) and if the Saints falter and fail I'll pull for the Pokes over just about anyone. I don't know how I'd feel about Dallas v. Minnesota; I guess half of me wants to see Brett get it and the other half wants him beat. (And it's certainly Drew's ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 05:18 PM
Leona Bishop
Queen601: Any contact information for Mrs. Bishop?

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Nov 04, 2009 | 05:06 PM
2009 New Orleans Saints = Real Deal?
Queen601: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....Todd don't go.....Pleeezzzz! LOL. Hey I don't care if the cowboys never win another game, they will always be my team. REGARDLESS...always have. And I will say that I have liked the Saints since Drew Brees, but my allegiance is to them boys. I wouldn't mind seeing the Saints win a bowl if someone other ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 04:58 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
Reximus: For what it's worth, do you know anyone who refers to it as "The Ross Barnett Reservoir"? I live there, and most people don't even call it the Reservoir, just "the rez". Stokes was just being Stokes. This whole episode is just a different version of all his resolutions honoring people in his ward. I need to remember ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 04:34 PM
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Powerman: J.T. I believe you missed my point. I am not claiming to be God over anything. I am simply saying that there are several public places that are named after people who are "divisive". Among those are our capital city, Jeff Davis county, Forrest County (just to name a few). I can't say what's in people's heart; ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 04:08 PM
2009 New Orleans Saints = Real Deal?
itodd: Queen -- I'm learning real quick as the Saints pull my allegiance away from the Cowboys that if you can't take the disappointment you gotta stay out of Da Dome!

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Nov 04, 2009 | 03:44 PM
Healthcare "forum" being held this Sunday in Brandon
golden eagle: I highly doubt this will be a forum as it will be a shout-down-health-care-re form debate fest. And where is the multipurpose pavilion at anyway? I didn’t know there was one.

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Nov 04, 2009 | 02:10 PM
2009 New Orleans Saints = Real Deal?
Queen601: Oh and I really hope all the new Saints Lovers are able to survive if they run out of steam, ever!!! Happened to the Titans....j/s

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Nov 04, 2009 | 02:08 PM
2009 New Orleans Saints = Real Deal?
Queen601: Walt, okay, COWBOY comment unwarranted. 2nd...Pittsburg will not see the superbowl this year. Just FYI!!!

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Nov 04, 2009 | 01:26 PM
Healthcare "forum" being held this Sunday in Brandon
Ronni M: Right, James. The flyer I have bills the event as a “Tea Party Double Header,” exclaiming that “The Teaparty Express Arrives in Brandon.” We’ll see just how much open discussion (which would actually make it a “forum") they allow in one hour with six speakers—all of whom seem to be conservative or ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 12:04 PM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
Tom Head: Ellen Douglas is progressive on race, and she has written quite a few post-1963 novels. She's excellent. She also holds the trivial distinction of being the only "famous" Mississippi writer I've ever met (though I was a kid at the time), and I remember her being very nice. However... Responding to the Tisdale ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 11:51 AM
JFP Person of the Day: Andrew Chaikin
spacer: Andrew will probably tell everybody that using rockets is the only way to go to space. The Technology of the Flying Saucer has been patented and was offered to Nasa. The Propulsion Engineers were dead-set against it. Who would need them if we could fly to the Moon in an hour or to Mars in a day? After the space disasters they ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 11:41 AM
[Balko] Bad Prosecutors, Mississippi and Beyond
jcruthirdsb: I agree with Mr. Balko. There are some prosecutors that need some type of punishment for misconduct. I know first hand of a couple prosecutors in Harrison County. Their is one in particular an ADA, who continued with a prosecution ,when he knew from the facts the person in question was innocent.He too just got ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 11:40 AM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
ladd: That one wasn't as simple as it sounds, Iron. There was a controversy over naming what is now the Willie Morris library after Willie rather than Richard Wright. After a contentious council meeting, I suggested in passing to the library group that they name the library in Ward 6 after Richard Wright, which seemed to be ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 11:38 AM
Council Renames Northside Library for Tisdale
J.T.: In re. to the article's "He [Stokes] had attempted to hold a vote earlier this year to change the name but a majority of the council voted against the move, arguing that Stokes had ducked municipal procedure in holding the vote without recording any public meetings to discuss the name change." Surely he knew how not to ...

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Nov 04, 2009 | 10:43 AM
No Quorum At JPS Board Meeting
lanier77: BTW, elected boards are no better, because it often becomes all about politics and money then. I've seen some perfectly good superintendents and board members statewide defeated because of dirty politics, slander and mud. oh well

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Nov 04, 2009 | 10:41 AM
No Quorum At JPS Board Meeting
lanier77: Tom, I actually believe that it was Norwood that first brought up the idea of corporal punishment, and then Phillips decided to champion it. The actions of this board are deplorable. Rather than face parents and explain and defend their actions, they run and hide. I expect this from third graders not grown, supposedly professional ...

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