Y’all say a prayer for Jackson, MS this weekend…

Not sure anyone really understands just how far gone and dangerous our capital city has become unless you live here, even then, you hear about it and know to stay out of 90% of Jackson, so we don’t even see it. Murders have sky rocketed as have felonies, and that’s with less cops, meaning less eyes and less arrest relatively. Now they are saying water will be an issue and we may run out due to overpopulation with the game day influx.

Just In the past 10 years Jackson has gone from awful to as bad as it gets. Literally as I speak; just for a notification there was a murder a couple hours ago in broad daylight right off a main highway and 4 blocks from JSU.

I’m most worried about Jackson pulling the curtain back for the entire country to see on live tv. The Gameday set crowd will be packed, I’d expect 65,000 or more in the stadium and heard up to 20,000 expected behind the game day set. 19,550 of those people could be great people there to celebrate HBCU and JSU, but I see no way they can manage to keep the gangsters out, and they will come, this is the biggest event for inner city Jackson in a long time.

We need every cop and security guard in the county on site, one point to entry in and out, and a series of metal detectors. Just not sure it’s possible to keep all the trouble out.

Not sure ESPN knows what they are getting into, sure there are great story lines and I love JSU and Jackson being represented but I just think from their cushy offices in New York; they chose Jackson bc it should be great tv and a cool thing, I just don’t think they understand that Gameday has never been and will never again have a site like Veterans memorial stadium Jackson, MS. On surface you’d think it sounds safe, day time, close enough to downtown Jackson, but it’s not on a university, it’s a Bryson dechamdouchebag drive away from places you don’t wanna go. Throw alcohol, drugs, in the mix, 10s of thousands or overly excited fans; and way too many opportunities for trouble to slip in, all it takes is one or two bad seeds to create an absolute nightmare and black mark for Jackson that it does not need. I’d say unwinding but yet Jackson officials to understand the task and risk at hand and go above and beyond to keep all trouble out, but Jackson officials can’t be trusted to even give us clean water, cow sized pot holes on semi major roads sit there for months. The city has poor leadership, no money, don’t have the personnel, or the infrastructure.

I know some of people down town that are very nervous. Just hope it goes well no one is hurt and Jackson can be celebrated. One thing for sure; it’s either going to to really well or be a complete disaster