She explains, trenchantly, and worth quoting in full: I think one of the biggest reasons why we have the problems we do in Jackson is that there historically hasn’t been ground up grassroots organizing … so here we have more nonprofits per capita than pretty much anywhere, but those nonprofits are philanthropically funded, they are not grassroots funded, so we have two hundred and some nonprofits, but nobody who is advocating about housing and that’s crazy.… So I think here you have a lot of individuals who individually are powerless and are getting screwed by the system. If people got
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