{"id":1634405,"date":"2022-09-06T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1634405"},"modified":"2022-09-06T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:19:06","slug":"cnn-suggests-systemic-racism-from-republicans-is-to-blame-for-mississippi-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-suggests-systemic-racism-from-republicans-is-to-blame-for-mississippi-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Suggests \u2018Systemic Racism\u2019 From Republicans Is To Blame For Mississippi Water Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-suggests-systemic-racism-from-republicans-is-to-blame-for-mississippi-water-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1634405&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> has repeatedly suggested that the water crisis in Jackson, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mississippi<\/a>\u00a0is the fault of \u201csystemic and environmental racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Multiple water pumps at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mississippi-water-crisis-drags-into-fifth-day\">failed last week<\/a> after severe storms caused the Pearl River to flood, prompting low water pressure and risk of bacterial infection, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/msdh.ms.gov\/msdhsite\/_static\/23,24664,341.html\">press release<\/a> from the Mississippi Department of Health. Federal and state officials \u2014 including President Joe Biden, Governor Tate Reeves (R-MS), and Jackson Democrat Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba \u2014 have issued emergency declarations as many residents of the state capital are unable to access potable water.<\/p>\n<p>Some have pointed to a general economic decline in Jackson as a factor behind the crisis since the city\u2019s population declined from roughly 174,000 residents in 2010 to 154,000 residents in 2020, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/jacksoncitymississippi\/PST040221#PST040221\">data<\/a> from the Census Bureau. Others have noted political turmoil, as Jackson has seen eight mayors since 1997, including two who died in office. In its coverage of the crisis, however, CNN continues to float \u201csystemic racism\u201d as a viable explanation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvocates have previously pointed to systemic and environmental racism as among the causes of Jackson\u2019s ongoing water issues and lack of resources to address them,\u201d CNN reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/31\/us\/jackson-water-system-failing-wednesday\/index.html\">August 31<\/a>, noting that the Mississippi legislature is \u201cmajority white\u201d while the population of Jackson is overwhelmingly \u201cblack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another article published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/03\/us\/jackson-water-crisis-systemic-neglect-frustration-reaj\/index.html\">September 3<\/a>, CNN said that \u201cwhite flight\u201d is responsible for the city\u2019s population decline, while \u201cthe state\u2019s Republican-controlled legislature, which is predominantly white, has thwarted efforts to upgrade the black metropolis\u2019s decrepit water system.\u201d The article noted that Reeves refused to allocate $47 million for repairs and has asked the city to \u201cstart collecting their water bill payments before they start going and asking everyone else to pony up more money\u201d after a previous water crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In an opinion piece published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/31\/opinions\/jackson-water-crisis-mississippi-racism-eubanks\/index.html\">August 31<\/a>, W. Ralph Eubanks said that the \u201cWhite power structure\u201d in Mississippi was responsible for the crisis. \u201cHow could a state ignore the needs of the residents of its capital city and allow things to deteriorate to this point? The answer as I see it is simple: racism,\u201d he said. \u201cJackson is a Black majority city and Mississippi is governed by a White Republican supermajority that refuses to invest in Jackson because of who lives there and who governs it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For evidence, Eubanks referred to remarks from deceased Sen. James Kimble Vardaman (D-MS), who called African-Americans in Mississippi \u201clazy, lying, lustful animals.\u201d He neglected to mention, however, that Vardaman was born months after the Civil War began and died in 1930. Though Eubanks said that messaging from the current leadership of Mississippi is \u201cnot much different\u201d from the late lawmaker\u2019s comments, he did not cite any specific examples.<\/p>\n<p>None of the articles from CNN mentioned that every mayor of Jackson since 1997 has been African-American. Also missing from the discussion is the reality that Jackson overcharged residents or neglected to charge them at all in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/31\/1120166328\/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis\">series of clerical issues<\/a> stemming from a contract with Siemens to upgrade sewer lines, water treatment plants, and water-sewer billing systems. The unpaid bills reportedly hamstrung Jackson\u2019s ability to fix its water infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, Reeves accordingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonfreepress.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/30\/gov-reeves-vetoes-jackson-water-bill-more-paving-m\/\">vetoed legislation<\/a> that would have exempted some residents from paying water obligations. \u201cI\u2019m very concerned about the \u2018free money\u2019 concept that has taken over politics today,\u201d Reeves argued. \u201cAllowing a few politicians to determine who does and does not have to pay for government services is bad policy. It removes all responsibility for the city from the equation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s apparent willingness to chalk up the Mississippi water crisis to \u201csystemic racism\u201d \u2014 while neglecting to provide any rationale for why race has a salient impact on Jackson\u2019s decades of water infrastructure issues \u2014 is by no means a new rhetorical tactic from Left-wing commentators. In fact, as Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shapiro-the-circular-logic-of-systemic-racism\">written<\/a> about \u201csystemic racism,\u201d such accusations are rooted in the notion that disparity is always a sign of discrimination \u2014 while asking for evidence is often \u201ctreated as proof of guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end, evidence for systemic racism is utterly unnecessary,\u201d Shapiro commented. \u201cSystemic racism requires no evidence of intent, either individual or systemic. It requires only evidence of disparate outcome by race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN has repeatedly suggested that the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi\u00a0is the fault of \u201csystemic and environmental racism.\u201d Multiple water pumps at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant failed last week after severe storms caused the Pearl River to flood, prompting low water pressure and risk of bacterial infection, according to a press release from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1288454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}