Poverty in the Mississipi Delta (jesus christ)

[cole phelps]

jesus this is some 3rd world shyt

 

[TRFG]

Brother, most people live better than that in the 3rd world

 

[Primetime21]

Root

 

[Knuckles Red]

Theres something beautifully depressing about those pictures. We deserve better than this.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Mississippi is

 

[Street Knowledge]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._act_and_racism_the_state_s_failures_are.html

 

[wet landscapes]

it's crazy that this doesn't get as much spotlight as the poverty in the Appalachian Mountains
I'm gonna see if there's some sort of service project where you can go and help build houses down there or something

West Tallahatchie Habitat for Humanity – Tutwiler, MS

Mission:
The mission of Habitat for Humanity is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the face of the earth by building adequate and basic housing. Furthermore, all of our words and actions are for the ultimate purpose of putting shelter on the hearts and minds of people in such a powerful way that poverty housing and homelessness become socially, politically and religiously unacceptable in our nations and world. West Tallahatchie Habitat for Humanity builds houses for community members in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. All of our houses are built with volunteer labor from groups across the United States.

• Contact Name, Position: Jamekia Hilliard, Affiliate Coordinator
• E-mail Address: wthabitat@yahoo.com
• Phone Number: 662-345-6200
• Physical Address: 202 Alma Street, Tutwiler, MS 38963
• Community Service Description: West Tallahatchie Habitat provides service to build decent and affordable homes to improve the living conditions in which many people in Tallahatchie County currently live in.

Volunteer Requirements: Habitat simply could not exist without our volunteers! You are the backbone, heart and soul, hands and feet of Habitat whether you’re wielding a hammer, microphone, or donate building supplies!

• We require volunteers to be 16 years of age and above.

Delta Fresh Food Initiative – Clarksdale, MS
Mission:
To build comprehensive, sustainable, equitable local food systems in the MS Delta to provide economic development, improved health outcomes, social equity in the region.

• Contact Name, Position: Dr. Deborah Moore, Board Chair
• E-mail Address: dmoore@deltahealthalliance.org
• Phone Number: 662-404-5004
• Website: www.deltafreshfoods.org
• Physical Address: office is located in Hernando MS
• Community Service Description: Projects include building and maintaining school and community gardens.
• Volunteer Requirements: We rely on partnering agencies to screen and supervise volunteers they provide for specific projects

 

[PortCityProphet]

Mississippi will always be like that. They're so anti blacks that they always go super heavy republican and fight against themselves. Them white folk don't think they're poor down there and will rather sacrifice themselves to keep black folk down.
Ms is basically last in every category and has been for the longest. They do nothing to bring funds to the state.
The best saying for being from Alabama is "thank god for mississippi"

 

[Maximus Rex]

I was born in Mississippi and that shyt is not surprising

 

[Raava]

This is why I get annoyed/mad when I always the US and celebs doing everything under the sun for other countries. Donating money, building schools and homes, sending supplies when they have people desperately in need right here. I never understood that. Especially black celebrities. I have donated to other countries before, but it was the same things I donated for things here. I know people who do both, but why is it that people are always so quick to run overseas vs help people here?

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

Always appreciate what you have brehs.

 

[Konnan]

I don't wanna see anybody else here complaining about their jobs anymore

Somebody always got it worse while y'all complaining about your office jobs there's someone 9ut there taking a shyt in a shed next to a lawnmower

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

 

[Motife43]

My dad's side of the family is from Clarksdale, ain't been done there since I was 11 or 12. But yeah that poverty is real. I was in Itta Bena at MVSU last year, and those country towns don't have anything out there! I can't see how my cousin survives in that town.

Check out this film called Ballast, those pictures reminded me of that movie

 

[Justise M]

all my dad's side from Jackson. it's the capital and looks completely run down