Give me a break! I was just there. The reason there are no jobs is because nobdy want's to work. The Democrats have convince the whole area that you should stay home & let the goverment take care of you. A vote for Obama is a vote for your POVERTY!!! LEARN THE TRUTH!!!! GET UP & WORK!!!!
Poverty probably is still in some parts of Mississippi. POVERTY is all of the U.S.; however, life choices keep some of us in poverty.You have got to graduate from high school and continue your education by obtaining a college degree or some other skill by attending a trade school or something.
@angstjames MOST LIKE ME,, FEEL COLLEGE IS A DEPT TRAP! SCHOOL ISNT FOR EVERY PERSON, U MAY HAVE DEGREES, BUT EVERY1 ELSE ISNT FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO PAY FOR COLLEGE! VIDEOS LIKE THIS REMINDS ME OF MY HOME TOWN IN FLORIDA,, BUT LUCKILY I WAS BLESSED TO GET AWAY AT A YOUNG AGE! BUT NEVER KNOCK SOMEONES STRUGGLE, CAUSE U NEVER KNO WHY THEY'RE IN THAT POSITION!
The reason most of you don't have anything is because you don't work towards anything. I moved to mississippi from memphis tennessee when I was 13. The school system is horrible. Hardly any of the students pay attention. It honestly is just a bunch of badass black kids sent there so their momma doesn't have to watch them. People in mississippi feel like they should be given something for nothing. Mississippi is full of leeches and I'm not talking about the waterways.
@JFURY82 YOUR WHITE AND EVEN IF YOU JUST HAPPEN TO BE MELINATED WHICH IM SURE YOUR NOT .YOU CANT LOOK AT THEIR SITUATION AND COMPARE IT TO WHAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE EXPERIENCED.I CAN PRETTY MUCH ASSUME THAT YOUR A FLAMING FAGGOT OR A NAZI ....BUT ID JUST BE ASSUMING...
This is so not true.. The delta does not look like this.. I hate how they have placed picture making people look sad and crap!! I am from the delta and I know this video is not true!!
y don they work together and pay people to pick up that trash or pick it up them selves ..........................stop drinking start prayin.....and believe in each others dreams........embrace the young and respect the old...... remember the real battle is for the minds of our youth...........................steve beko...
I like that "those who were left behind". Now remember that because all blacks have family that made it off the plantation, ran north(literally), & did well. These people(myself included) are the remnants of the slaves that had no where to go after slavery was abolished. See my grandfather/father was a cotton picker. I have touched the cotton sacks & seen the graves. But its up to each generation to better the next until we get ourselves out...mentally, emotionally, & financially! If you payin
@MegaMindFrame attention you'll see that the smart ones are gettin out its the lazy ones that want to wait on welfare & tanf & child support. Those people will remain there. Where Im from(outside of clarksdale) they're always sayin make something of yourself & come back home. Us new generation are like home to what! This aint never felt like home...more like captivity. So the majority of us leave & never come back.
@kaptblack White trash...no sir, im as black as they come. But being from just north of this place I believe I know exactly whats happening. There is nothing there but cotton fields & towns that are drying up. And the ones that realized their town is not gonna make it are making it possible for their kids to get out. But its hard to get out if you routinly poppin babies, not finishing high school, or most importantly no transportation...which they cant get without a job.
@kshollywood Now iStay iN Mississippi And iTds Becos We Have Jobs Down Here ! Bhut We Have To Travel A Lonq Way Just To qet There ! So Stop Baqqinq On Us !
I live in the Delta and if there is someone who is having a hard time it's their own fault. Especially since the casino's have been here. The resources are there (free education, public housing, food stamps, etc.) to help you until you can do better. If you choose to sleep all day, drink all night, have 6 kids before your 18, and roll that smoke then it will never get any better. Look at the high school in Tunica. All new, best computers and resources and the kids do their best to trash it.
@jimbo7143- Folks only can work with what they have and not what they don't. The casinos are not gonna hire someone who #1- Has no transportation to get to work. #2- Is not dressed properly when filling out an application/going to an interview. #3- Does not have a high school education. My boyfriend and his family is from the delta and from what he tells me, people there are NOT poor because they wanna be. My boyfriends family escaped that kind of poverty because they LEFT THERE long ago.
@chawlatthai -you are right. Folks can only work with what they have.To start with your #3 there is no excuse.The education is free and the school bus goes right up to the front door. #2 having worked at one of the casinos myself as long as you are clean and present yourself in a positive way, they don't care if you have a suit and tie on most interviews.Get in the door and work your way up. #1,Delta HR and some casinos do provide pickup for work.Not to mention sharing a ride with someone else.
@jimbo7143- From what Ive seen on here, some of them dont even look clean. Probably cause theres no washing machines? Education maybe better now but what about those who had to quit school to work the fields? And with the casinos, they cant hire EVERYBODY. Like you've said SOME of the casinos provide transportation. So casinos that dont does no good to people who have no transportation. I'm sure that those who are already working at the casinos ain't leaving there til they die.
@jimbo7143- You may be right about women having all these kids they can't take care of, and people making the wrong decisions. However just because you may be doing better, dont give you the right to get up on your high horse. Theres a difference between the inner city where there are welfare queens who seek to hit the ghetto lottery. Because there they have transportation, at least a standard place to live, and access to the things that they need. The delta is like a 3rd world country in 2010!
@chawlatthai -I live in the Delta and have all my life.I have also served 6 years in the Army and have been to 3rd world countries.Trust me, the Delta is no 3rd world country.Washing machines? People were keeping themselves clean long B4 the invention of a washing machine.There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse what so ever to not be clean.My mother washed clothes in a bathtub till we got our first machine.We were poor too,but we took advantage of the resources to get out of poverty not stay in it.
@jimbo7143- I understand all that, but you said 1 key word w/o realizing it. ARMY. Meaning YOU GOT OUT. Even if you are back in the delta, I'm sure that by you being a veteran, it puts a big plus on your job resumes. Dont get me wrong, I think that it's wonderful that you were raised in adverse conditions and turned out doing much better for yourself. My boyfriends family has that same testimony. However the question is does everyone there have the opportunity to get out of there as you did?
It's a struggle to pay for these $150 shoes mane, it's a struggle to pay for this direct tv mane. It's a struggle yo. The attitude of entitlement is a mental disease.
I live in Ms not far from the delta.I know first hand most of the people there don't even try to help themselves.The government has dumped billions of dollars into the delta in the last 30 or 40 years,and it has done nothing but make things worse.
@MsFarmhand- Ok you say the government dumped billions of dollars there over 30 or 40 years right? Ok now how sure are you that the money what put to proper use instead of abused? There are other parts of Mississippi where they may be either working class, working poor or even on fixed incomes. They not living like that. They have standard housing, a car or carpool to work, stores within a reasonable amount of distance to get to. Why? Because theres something to work with unlike in the delta.
yes indeed this is a great video im from gulfport ms and we still having a hard time thank u for rep the delta my grandma and papa were from the delta
It's an absurd that situation is in the "great America"...but thanks to those peoplewho are living, singing and playing music, Mississippi have a great soul everyones all over the world know!
omg...first time seeing this. im from lambert, mississippi of course part of the delta...I EVEN SEEN A PIC IN THIS VIDEO OF THE TOWN. I recently moved to new york. and i see how people take advantage of the things they have here. YOU NEVER APPRECIATE WHERE YOU ARE OR WHERE YOURE GOING UNLESS YOU KNOW AND UNDERSTAND WHERE U CAME FROM. I Will never forget what people go through in the south. i wasnt in poverty but i understand and witnessed what it was like.
wow . these images remind me so much of where i spent much of my child hood. Living int he city now i actually miss where i'm from a lot. THE PEOPLE made those places special. I know it's tough for those truly poor though too.. A real different kind of pooir
Love this group. I am not from Mississipp, no what that cotton field is like.
shirley9711 1 month ago
i live in the mississippi delta !!!!!! Cleveland Boy!!!!!!!!!
XxCHOPPAxLOWRIDAxX 2 months ago
Give me a break! I was just there. The reason there are no jobs is because nobdy want's to work. The Democrats have convince the whole area that you should stay home & let the goverment take care of you. A vote for Obama is a vote for your POVERTY!!! LEARN THE TRUTH!!!! GET UP & WORK!!!!
salzmancreek 6 months ago
I'm fortunate to live in the coast.
It's whats keeping the rest of the state afloat.
Well it's a worldwide thing. We've always had the bounty of the sea and can harness it's power for human use. Its also good for global trade.
Your never going to see a failed city by the sea.
xxDanielTM93xx 7 months ago
Poverty probably is still in some parts of Mississippi. POVERTY is all of the U.S.; however, life choices keep some of us in poverty.You have got to graduate from high school and continue your education by obtaining a college degree or some other skill by attending a trade school or something.
angstjames 9 months ago
@angstjames MOST LIKE ME,, FEEL COLLEGE IS A DEPT TRAP! SCHOOL ISNT FOR EVERY PERSON, U MAY HAVE DEGREES, BUT EVERY1 ELSE ISNT FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO PAY FOR COLLEGE! VIDEOS LIKE THIS REMINDS ME OF MY HOME TOWN IN FLORIDA,, BUT LUCKILY I WAS BLESSED TO GET AWAY AT A YOUNG AGE! BUT NEVER KNOCK SOMEONES STRUGGLE, CAUSE U NEVER KNO WHY THEY'RE IN THAT POSITION!
1rob24 8 months ago
@angstjames its not easy for some people dude
MultiRedDragon10 1 week ago
rural Mississippi is heaven compared to urban nightmares. Interesting video tho
anothercountyheard 1 year ago
@anothercountyheard
what urban nightmare
123sippijacktown1 8 months ago
@123sippijacktown1 well, like the life in any large metropolitan area. All the same ills obtain in the rural areas,
they are just less concentrated.
anothercountyheard 8 months ago
@anothercountyheard bruh I'm from Mississippi and its really a shit hole for blacks and other Minorities
MultiRedDragon10 1 week ago
WE WOULD LIKE TO ENTER YOUR VIDEO INTO A CONTEST.
SIGNUP HERE AND PROMOTE YOUR VIDEOS. WE HAVE NOT
LAUNCHED THE SITE YET, WERE BUILDING THE ARTIST.
ganstamarcus2010 1 year ago
The reason most of you don't have anything is because you don't work towards anything. I moved to mississippi from memphis tennessee when I was 13. The school system is horrible. Hardly any of the students pay attention. It honestly is just a bunch of badass black kids sent there so their momma doesn't have to watch them. People in mississippi feel like they should be given something for nothing. Mississippi is full of leeches and I'm not talking about the waterways.
JFURY82 1 year ago
@JFURY82 YOUR WHITE AND EVEN IF YOU JUST HAPPEN TO BE MELINATED WHICH IM SURE YOUR NOT .YOU CANT LOOK AT THEIR SITUATION AND COMPARE IT TO WHAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE EXPERIENCED.I CAN PRETTY MUCH ASSUME THAT YOUR A FLAMING FAGGOT OR A NAZI ....BUT ID JUST BE ASSUMING...
universalconnections 1 year ago
This is so not true.. The delta does not look like this.. I hate how they have placed picture making people look sad and crap!! I am from the delta and I know this video is not true!!
msfantasy2013 1 year ago
y don they work together and pay people to pick up that trash or pick it up them selves ..........................stop drinking start prayin.....and believe in each others dreams........embrace the young and respect the old...... remember the real battle is for the minds of our youth...........................steve beko...
abethoqua 1 year ago
@abethoqua DID YOU WATCH THE VIDEO OR DID YOU JUST COMMENT?
universalconnections 1 year ago
I like that "those who were left behind". Now remember that because all blacks have family that made it off the plantation, ran north(literally), & did well. These people(myself included) are the remnants of the slaves that had no where to go after slavery was abolished. See my grandfather/father was a cotton picker. I have touched the cotton sacks & seen the graves. But its up to each generation to better the next until we get ourselves out...mentally, emotionally, & financially! If you payin
MegaMindFrame 1 year ago 4
@MegaMindFrame attention you'll see that the smart ones are gettin out its the lazy ones that want to wait on welfare & tanf & child support. Those people will remain there. Where Im from(outside of clarksdale) they're always sayin make something of yourself & come back home. Us new generation are like home to what! This aint never felt like home...more like captivity. So the majority of us leave & never come back.
MegaMindFrame 1 year ago
@MegaMindFrame Spoken like the true descendant of white trash
kaptblack 1 year ago
@kaptblack White trash...no sir, im as black as they come. But being from just north of this place I believe I know exactly whats happening. There is nothing there but cotton fields & towns that are drying up. And the ones that realized their town is not gonna make it are making it possible for their kids to get out. But its hard to get out if you routinly poppin babies, not finishing high school, or most importantly no transportation...which they cant get without a job.
MegaMindFrame 1 year ago
If they are so poor how can they afford dish network, it costs about $75 to $100 a month
kshollywood 1 year ago
@kshollywood Now iStay iN Mississippi And iTds Becos We Have Jobs Down Here ! Bhut We Have To Travel A Lonq Way Just To qet There ! So Stop Baqqinq On Us !
kaykay123474 1 year ago
@kshollywood ARE YOU ASKING A QUESTION OR ANSWERING IT?
universalconnections 1 year ago
Thank you jimbo7143! It's all about choice!
coffycakes 1 year ago
I live in the Delta and if there is someone who is having a hard time it's their own fault. Especially since the casino's have been here. The resources are there (free education, public housing, food stamps, etc.) to help you until you can do better. If you choose to sleep all day, drink all night, have 6 kids before your 18, and roll that smoke then it will never get any better. Look at the high school in Tunica. All new, best computers and resources and the kids do their best to trash it.
jimbo7143 1 year ago
@jimbo7143- Folks only can work with what they have and not what they don't. The casinos are not gonna hire someone who #1- Has no transportation to get to work. #2- Is not dressed properly when filling out an application/going to an interview. #3- Does not have a high school education. My boyfriend and his family is from the delta and from what he tells me, people there are NOT poor because they wanna be. My boyfriends family escaped that kind of poverty because they LEFT THERE long ago.
chawlatthai 1 year ago
@chawlatthai -you are right. Folks can only work with what they have.To start with your #3 there is no excuse.The education is free and the school bus goes right up to the front door. #2 having worked at one of the casinos myself as long as you are clean and present yourself in a positive way, they don't care if you have a suit and tie on most interviews.Get in the door and work your way up. #1,Delta HR and some casinos do provide pickup for work.Not to mention sharing a ride with someone else.
jimbo7143 1 year ago
@jimbo7143- From what Ive seen on here, some of them dont even look clean. Probably cause theres no washing machines? Education maybe better now but what about those who had to quit school to work the fields? And with the casinos, they cant hire EVERYBODY. Like you've said SOME of the casinos provide transportation. So casinos that dont does no good to people who have no transportation. I'm sure that those who are already working at the casinos ain't leaving there til they die.
chawlatthai 1 year ago
@jimbo7143- You may be right about women having all these kids they can't take care of, and people making the wrong decisions. However just because you may be doing better, dont give you the right to get up on your high horse. Theres a difference between the inner city where there are welfare queens who seek to hit the ghetto lottery. Because there they have transportation, at least a standard place to live, and access to the things that they need. The delta is like a 3rd world country in 2010!
chawlatthai 1 year ago 2
@chawlatthai -I live in the Delta and have all my life.I have also served 6 years in the Army and have been to 3rd world countries.Trust me, the Delta is no 3rd world country.Washing machines? People were keeping themselves clean long B4 the invention of a washing machine.There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse what so ever to not be clean.My mother washed clothes in a bathtub till we got our first machine.We were poor too,but we took advantage of the resources to get out of poverty not stay in it.
jimbo7143 1 year ago
@jimbo7143- I understand all that, but you said 1 key word w/o realizing it. ARMY. Meaning YOU GOT OUT. Even if you are back in the delta, I'm sure that by you being a veteran, it puts a big plus on your job resumes. Dont get me wrong, I think that it's wonderful that you were raised in adverse conditions and turned out doing much better for yourself. My boyfriends family has that same testimony. However the question is does everyone there have the opportunity to get out of there as you did?
chawlatthai 1 year ago
@jimbo7143
yes it is by the standard of the us it is get out of denial
123sippijacktown1 8 months ago
It's a struggle to pay for these $150 shoes mane, it's a struggle to pay for this direct tv mane. It's a struggle yo. The attitude of entitlement is a mental disease.
dc8wg 1 year ago
I live in Ms not far from the delta.I know first hand most of the people there don't even try to help themselves.The government has dumped billions of dollars into the delta in the last 30 or 40 years,and it has done nothing but make things worse.
MsFarmhand 1 year ago
@MsFarmhand- Ok you say the government dumped billions of dollars there over 30 or 40 years right? Ok now how sure are you that the money what put to proper use instead of abused? There are other parts of Mississippi where they may be either working class, working poor or even on fixed incomes. They not living like that. They have standard housing, a car or carpool to work, stores within a reasonable amount of distance to get to. Why? Because theres something to work with unlike in the delta.
chawlatthai 1 year ago
yes indeed this is a great video im from gulfport ms and we still having a hard time thank u for rep the delta my grandma and papa were from the delta
hawaiinani 1 year ago
It's an absurd that situation is in the "great America"...but thanks to those peoplewho are living, singing and playing music, Mississippi have a great soul everyones all over the world know!
jackkettino 1 year ago
this must not be in tha delta..damn
34cashmoney43 2 years ago
omg...first time seeing this. im from lambert, mississippi of course part of the delta...I EVEN SEEN A PIC IN THIS VIDEO OF THE TOWN. I recently moved to new york. and i see how people take advantage of the things they have here. YOU NEVER APPRECIATE WHERE YOU ARE OR WHERE YOURE GOING UNLESS YOU KNOW AND UNDERSTAND WHERE U CAME FROM. I Will never forget what people go through in the south. i wasnt in poverty but i understand and witnessed what it was like.
shundra32 2 years ago 5
that is why i left that state. its no future for me there.
kazaakai 2 years ago
obama, is not going to help! so forget him, we must get these ppl. out of here!111
mlisamyers 2 years ago 2
wow . these images remind me so much of where i spent much of my child hood. Living int he city now i actually miss where i'm from a lot. THE PEOPLE made those places special. I know it's tough for those truly poor though too.. A real different kind of pooir
ckhid 2 years ago
Excellent Video thanks for producing it and bringing the truth to the light
agodsend624 2 years ago