Tomekia Reed Speaks About the Negative Portrayal Of Jackson, MS on 60 Minutes

Tomekia Reed Speaks About the Negative Portrayal Of Jackson, MS on 60 Minutes.

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00:00 - Well, I am extremely proud of being

00:02 from Jackson, Mississippi.

00:04 We have great products, great people

00:08 who have come through Jackson, Mississippi.

00:10 We have a lot of wonderful things to show

00:13 and our community is beautiful.

00:18 For a team like Jackson State to be successful

00:21 four years in a row,

00:23 winning the regular season championship,

00:25 we are doing some things right.

00:27 And so our community is doing some things right.

00:30 Our institution and our city of Jackson

00:34 are all doing the right things.

00:36 And so when you talk about Jackson,

00:39 I just want people to talk about the goodness of Jackson.

00:43 We can go anywhere and look at the bad things.

00:45 We can go anywhere and look at the bad homes,

00:48 abandoned homes.

00:49 We can look at all of that stuff anywhere,

00:54 but I think there's so much more to show about Jackson,

00:57 especially because people who are not from here

01:00 already have their perception.

01:02 Let's change that.

01:03 I understand people have to create a narrative.

01:08 I get it.

01:09 But I think there's so much more to show

01:12 of Jackson, Mississippi than what's been shown.