we go to omar jimenez, and you are talking to a number of people, and what are you finding out? well, the bill is back on the agenda, but even if it passes the senate, there are things that need to be hammered out. at the core of the debate is representation. you have a core black city like jackson with a legislature that is majority white. what this would do is to take away some of the governing power from the city of jackson and give more to the state. even a version introduced on the house side singled out a section of jackson that was majority white that would have state appointed judges rather than elected ones, and also under the jurisdiction of the state run police force as opposed to the jackson police force, and the jackson jurisdiction would be extended city-wide, so the judges would preside over cases
further. they wanted to charge the city of jackson, if there s any leaks in the rents water system, with cities how stream could charge up to $400 million a year. that would break the city! this is what happens when people have absolute control that they don t respect the citizens of jack and, jackson and they don t represent all of the politics at home. this is taxation without representation. it is. i m glad that i have both of you gentlemen on here tonight mister mayor because louisiana, mississippi we knew you general honoré from louisiana. to the richest states in the union, if not before the civil war because they had free labor for 200 years that made people extremely rich. people like marvin green want to have a separation of the country. well, the red part of the south became the poorest part of the
appointed completely by white state officials, meaning jackson voters will not get to elect judges or prosecutors. joining me now is the mayor of jackson, mississippi, and retired army lieutenant general russell honore. mr. mayor, i know you ve been on with us before. what is the status of the vote on basically stealing jackson s autonomy? absolutely. thank you, joy, for having me again. to speak to this that we have grown to understand is being valuable. they have made some amendments to the bill. amendments that acknowledge that it is fraught with constitutional violations, but nonetheless it is still an
south after separation because they were deprived that free labor. so that s how wet the first time. but it strikes me mayor lumumba, is what they want is apartheid, because they don t believe that black people should govern themselves or be a majority and be in charge of a city like jackson, which is the capital. i can t describe it is anything but apartheid but how would you describe it? well, that s the phrase that i have used. i think that it accurately portrays what is taking place. i ve also used the phrase that it is plantation politics at its finest, and i think general honoré who won, is being very humble in terms of the effort to get the resources when it pertains to water. normally we have seen that is his part and parcel of a larger effort through many legislative bills that have been introduced in mississippi. we are seeing similar things in places like missouri. speaking with my sister mayor,