Mississippi: What went wrong?

You are wrong. I don't think you will find as much correlation between minority population and statistics like per capita income as you think you would.

For example, take some random counties in California

Marin County, CA 84% white - Median household income 71,306

Santa Clara, CA 53% white - Medican household income $74,335

Ventura County, CA - 70% white - median househould income - $75,157

Humbolt County, CA 84.71% White - median income household income $31,226

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Irvine was considered the safest city in the US with a population over 100,000 4 years in a row

http://cbs2.com/local/Irvine.Safe.Big.2.743862.html

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Irvine's demographics according to wikipedia

The racial makeup of the city is 61.06% White, 1.45% Black or African American, 0.18% Native American, 29.83% Asian American, 1.14% Pacific Islander, 2.54% from other races, and 4.82% from two or more races. 7.37% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Prom Night in Mississippi was a pretty disturbing film. How can parents up to 2008 want to send their kids to segregated prom nights? Lots of old ignorance. I especially enjoyed the religious justification against biracial dating used by one of the parents.

http://www.promnightinmississippi.com/the-film

You need to follow Kudzu's example and actually learn a thing or two about a place before you attempt to comment with authority about it. You know nothing whatsoever about what life is like in Mississippi. Kudzu and others have attempted to correct your misinformed impressions by providing you with plenty of real world experiences that go against the stereotype. Yet you persist cliche riddled view of what Mississippi is like, completely impervious to the far more complex reality. And I'll bet you consider yourself a very open-minded individual, not at all given to prejudice and narrow-mindedness. An original thinker even. Sorry to have to say it, but such vacuous self-deeption really is a form of rather blatant stupidity.

Legally blonde, you continue to blast ignorance from every orifice. Working in the steel mills? Picking cotton in the fields?

Are you truly as fuking stupid as you sound? I'm pretty sure picking cotton by hand is a thing of the past, even in good ol' Mississippi.

Mississippi has professionals just like ANY OTHER PLACE in this country. Somehow, you've got it in your head that everyone is poor, like everyone lives in shacks and barns across the state. Do you honestly believe that?

Do-gooders = dumbass trouble-makers

I grew up in Louisiana and then moved to Washington state and taught high school. There were parents in the community that wouldn't let their daughters go to prom with any Native Americans. In the South, you have contact with people of other ethnic backgrounds hundreds of times a day. In eastern Washington and many other parts of the country, you make contact with blacks much less than a hundred times a year. One racist remark a year for a person in the south, by percentage, is the same as 1 per lifetime for many others on this board.

the south sucks!!!!

end of discussion!!! Poor, black, fat, uneducated, pregnant teens that don't finish high school!!!

What went right? this:

http://mississippistate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=983337

September 1, 2009

Logan Lowery

BulldogBlitz.com

Publisher

Tuesday morning began just like any other morning for football star Kaleb Eulls.

Eulls and his three younger sisters were among 22 passengers on a school bus bound for Yazoo County High School in western Mississippi until a 14-year old female student boarded the bus armed with a .380 semi-automatic handgun threatening to shoot and ordering the bus driver to pull over.

Eulls had fallen asleep at the back of the bus listening to his mp3 player and did not realize what was happening until one of his sisters woke him up.

"My sister that was in front of me woke up and told me that the girl had a gun," Eulls said. "She was pointing it back and forth at other people and the little kids that were sitting at the back. I just thought real quick and tried to grab her attention before she pointed the gun at anybody else. I wanted her to point it at me so she wouldn't point it at anybody else."

Kaleb Eulls saved the lives of 22 students Tuesday morning.

Eulls then opened up the emergency door located in the back and began evacuating as many students as he could from the rear of the bus while trying to reason with the armed female.

"I just tried to talk to her and calm her down," said the 6-foot-4, 255-pound Eulls. "She was just getting louder and louder. I guess for a quick second she looked out the window and when she did that I just sprung at her. I just knocked her down and got the gun away from her. When I got the gun I ran out the back door and disarmed it."

Eulls, who is a four-star defensive end that is verbally committed to play football at Mississippi State next year, was not concerned for his own well being at the moment. He selflessly did what he thought was the right thing to save the life of the others on board.

"I was just scared for the younger kids and my family that was on the bus," Eulls said. "I was just thinking things out step-by-step as quickly as I could. After we got to the school and watched the tape I just sat there thinking 'what in the world did I just do?' I just thought about what if this would have happened or if this would have happened? It was just crazy."

Eulls, already a hometown sports hero in the town of just over 1,300 about 30 miles north of Jackson, Miss., earned the respect of the local law enforcement.

"The (officers) who have been there for a long time told me that they have stared down many barrels before and always felt like it was a big cannon pointing at them," Eulls said. "It is one scary feeling."

Yazoo County Sheriff Tommy Vaughn was quoted in the Jackson, Miss., based The Clarion Ledger saying "If it hadn't been for this star football player, things could have been different. He didn't go overboard, but he did exactly what it took to get her on the ground.

"He made the statement to one of my deputies that if she was going to shoot anyone he would rather she shoot him. Watching him do that and him doing such a heroic act and not even caring about his own safety, that's something you don't see every day."

The female assailant was arrested on 22 counts of attempted aggravated assault, 22 counts of kidnapping and one count of possession of a firearm on school property. She was taken to the county juvenile detention facility.

As for people now calling a hero, Eulls feels he was just doing what anyone else would have done in that situation.

"I just tell them thank you and not to do anything crazy like that," Eulls said.

Eulls is rated the No. 19 defensive end in the nation and the No. 8 overall prospect in Mississippi by Rivals.com. He holds scholarship offers from the likes of Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Southern Miss and Tennessee but has been committed to the Bulldogs since early July.

Go bulldogs!

GradEng wrote:

"I just tried to talk to her and calm her down," said the 6-foot-4, 255-pound Eulls.

Eulls is rated the No. 19 defensive end in the nation and the No. 8 overall prospect in Mississippi by Rivals.com. He holds scholarship offers from the likes of Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Southern Miss and Tennessee but has been committed to the Bulldogs since early July.

So Mississippi has a lot of big fat kids. Those without athletic ability go on to simply be sad fat fucks who are too dumb and unmotivated to become much else beyond drags on the health care system. BY CHOICE!

legally blonde wrote:

culture beauty home wrote:

Isn't it amazing how riled up the materialists are getting?

even more amazing how people who were never poor talk about how glamerous it would be.

kind of like people who think living on a dairy farm would be so peaceful and pure, until they have to milk cows twice a day 365 days a year starting at 4:30 a.m.....

I live on a farm and it is quite peaceful. I milk my cows twice a week, around 9 or 10ish in the morning.

Analogy FAIL.

Be nice

Kudzurunner, you still down there ?