Operation Good Jackson, MS

06/18/2026

It is always beautiful to see Black Men United doing an Operation of Good carrying out The Visionaries' Initiative. Join US as we support and celebrate US. Now is the time for UNITY

06/17/2026

Join US as we celebrate US. Regardless of the derivative of the Juneteenth Celebration, this is a time of UNITY for the descendants of the Atlantic Slave Trade in the USA. For we are 407 years into this land that is declared as the home of the brave and the land of the free and yet WE still find ourselves dealing with the traumatic events and occurrences that transpired throughout slavery, Jim Crow, the lynching, the repackage slavery called sharecropping, to the current repackage slavery called welfare, incarceration, public education, and all the components of the Trap. I was thinking of all of the harm that took place to the portion of the population that are referred to as Black or African American especially in the south but really all over. The damage is unsurmountable if we truly examine it. I was thinking why is it that we, blacks have 30 churches on one street in our community and the white population may have only one, the First Baptist Church, in the entire city, that they all attend. We will have 20 different social groups in our community, but the whites just had one the K*K. In other races whether White, Mexican, Asian, and so forth, they will support one another on whatever they do. In our community we compete with one another, slander the other, mimic the other until we just destroy one another. I concluded this is just another treachery of slavery. It goes along perfect with the Willie Lynch Syndrome. Make brother hate father, make mother independent and hate the man, make the older dislike the younger, make the darker skin hate the lighter skin. All these were processes that slavery implemented. The cost of this divide and conquering over this group of people is astronomical, just imagine if we supported one another instead of compete with one another. The actual financial cost which I believe should be paid by those who implemented this tragedy, like the Tudors, the Stewarts, the Hapsburg, The country of England, Spain, Portugal, France, and the collaborators in the Niger Delta, the coast of Judah (slave coast), the United States of America, and whomever else who profit on the devastation of generations of peoples who were created in the same image of The Most High as they were. Other than this rationing out of funds to the people you destroyed. Make them whole.

06/10/2026

On June 15 we will chose to make a statement. We will be walking in love and
solidarity alongside Cities United and a nationwide network of
people who believe that communities deserve care, healing, hope,
and peace.
As we “Walk It Out to End Community Violence,
” I show my
commitment to creating safe, healthy, and hopeful communities
where young Black men and boys not only survive, but thrive.
,MS
Cities United

06/01/2026

First we want to give all Honor and Praise to The Most High, thanking HIM for Grace and Mercy. In the Month that was. The month of May always present challenges as well as celebration. The challenge is the unofficial start of summer and the temperature boil. One of our major issues in violent interruption and prevention is Conflict Resolution. Given that society, the State of MS, social media, rap music, and the culture is Gun crazy, its hard for someone who is involved in a conflict to feel that shooting their way out is the only option. It's not that they want to, it's the fact that the odds of whomever they are in conflict with is carrying a gun is very high. And as so many tell us that they knew if they don't shoot them, they were going to be the one who get shot. Its a sad state of being in 2026 Mississippi where an individual cannot talk out their problems or even duke it out because with the Castle Doctrine, Open Carry, every on and they Moma have two guns and the fact that some illegally have switches, that even if a person don't want to cause harm to someone is placed in a conundrum. Kill or be killed. With that being stated the Violent Interventionist and Preventionzist job is difficult and yet, very important. To bring both sides together on the understanding that they are there to resolve the conflict with no firearm present and that the individuals in conflict can take your word. And the mediator have the credibility to bring both sides together. With the summer starting holidays like mother day, Memorial Day, graduations, school being out for the summer, July 4th and so forth coming up its imperative that we continue to do our mission. People often ask what do we do. Or, I can't see what you all are doing and our response is GooD. The fact there is nothing to see is great, that means the situation is resolved.

In the Month of May our High Risk Participants has been very productive, obtaining skill trade certificate, GED, High School Diploma, Over 90% of our High Risk Participants who are of age has gotten employment and if The Lord God says the same we want 100% of our HRP, BTWOTS, HVIP, CTECTM, and IT Takes A Village Participant employed, receiving productive training and/or education. Our younger participants of these programs will be involved in sports, work details, agriculture, and going on field trips. We must give a salute to our younger community memvbers who are excelling in their school work. Making good grades. We got to send out a Salute to Mrs Lula Henry for her tireless dedication to our youth. We like to thank UMMC, MSPHI, PHAST, and many others for their dedication in this struggle to preserve and promote life. We must continue to chop on wood in order to Change the Mindset...

05/18/2026

We had such a wonderful, eventful and resourceful time with our event with University of Mississippi Medical Center, School of Nursing, MSPHI, MSVIP and others on this past weekend. Providing much needed services, hygiene products, food and unity in the community. We like to give all the Honor and Praise to The Most High for such a beautiful time.

Community organizations in south Jackson came together Friday evening to provide support and resources for families facing hard times.

04/29/2026

The crew of Operation Good collaborated with Jackson Neighborhood associations and done a much needed and big clean up in South Jackson. Also our Mentors with youth who are at that thin line of being positive and productive or making the wrong decision are being positive influences to the youth and informing the youth from the Mentors own life experiences the consequences of making the wrong decision. Our Director spent time with other organizations in the South discussing CVI Action Plan for the Southern region. They were in the ominous presence of the office with no windows of the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Changing the Environment to Change the Mindset, our Navigation Department along with the Westside Community Development Center exposes the high risk to the historic campus of Tougaloo College.

I know that statistically in accordance to CVI data that the CVI organization should focus on the 1% of the total population because they are the statistical perpetrators of violence. That may be true in other cities and states. However in Mississippi that is a hard statistical analysis to conduct. Because in MS, there are more guns than people, the systemic racism that is being constantly conducted here places a higher percentage of the population in a position to be more prone to violence. Given that opportunities and various exposures are limited, the only outlet is being in situations that the majority of the time turns into violence. If you pay attention to the state of conflict resolution, being that everyone and their Moma having a gun a person is very hesitant of taking the chance of resolving a conflict peacefully without a mediator because they know 9 times out of 10 whomever they are in conflict with do have a gun. Considering that a gun in Jackson, MS is a part of your daily packing list to go outside, a person who have a disagreement with someone will be basically placing their faith in their opponent head. I begged the NRA, politicians and all to increase the age of gun ownership and the type of guns that should be available to those of a certain age. All these things were to no avail. A soldier joining the military has to have basic rifle marksmanship before he is allowed to be considered certified to carry a loaded weapon, however on the streets of inner cities, there is no such a regulation. In the military you have to have Advanced Rifle Marksmanship before you can deal with automatic weaponry, on the streets of Jackson, MS a couple dollars and a 3D printer you are a military equipped civilian who don't have any training. How is it that we allow these things on the streets, but not in the U.S. Army, that's crazy. The mindset of a 16-32 year old man is not prepared to be locked and loaded at all times, no way. Without proper training no one on the streets need anything more than a 6 shooter until they are age 32 years old or older, unless prior military service, approprialte training or law enforcement. Having this any other way is society way of saying that they want a group of the population killing one another. Which goes back to systemic racism. In Jackson, MS we had a 1% sales tax for the last 12 years that have accumulated over a 100 million dollars for road and bridges repair, however only the affluent areas of the city has received any repairs. While the impoverished and poverty stricken areas nothing but constant car repair and buying tires. The money for the 1% sales tax is not in the hand of the people of Jackson, MS because its predominantly black but in the hand of the State of MS which is predominantly white and a board that's appointed to manage. Just as with the water crisis of 2022 and the money designated for Jackson, MS for much needed repair, that did not go to the city of Jackson, MS but to the State of MS who did with it as they seen fit, not for the reason it was given and it was given an appointed board or 3rd party manager. The highest imprisonment location in the entire world is in guess where MS, which is the State with the highest percentage of blacks, The state that ironically has the highest rate of STD and HIV. The state with the highest homicide rate, the State with the worst public education, the state with the most guns and the state with the least opportunity. I am mentioning all of this is because there is a lot of good people and organizations out here fighting every day to preserve life, to stand in the gap for the fatherless and the widows, but yet with all those efforts bad things still happens and it hurts those who are trying to Change the Environment. However given the systemic situation that we are in its like being in a fight with both hands ties, eyes covered with shoes with no soles in them. I ofter like to fall back on the fact that Mississippi is considered a Bible Belt state, a Christian State, however the system that are here, who would look at it as being Christ Like. Love Families.

04/17/2026

Salute to the Collective. Enjoyed the tour. The Watts Safe Passage and CVI was one of the most complimentary site visits we have been on. Watts facing some similar issues as Jackson except we have way more guns. The guys and girls at Imperial Court Salute to what you all are doing. Thanks to The Reverence Project, CBPS and Scaling Safety

04/10/2026

We like to first give all honor and praise to the Most High. With HIM all things are possible, without HIM we are doomed. I often told the team that its hard to see how beautiful the Forest is, because we always are surrounded by all of the thorns, bushes and trees, however if you step outside of the woods and look at it from a distance you can see how beautiful the forest can truly be. Over the Passover Feast Week, I moved around outside of the woods and I got another glimpse of the forest that is our city and its surroundings and I saw our city in a different light, the forest which is the Greater Jackson, MS area indeed has the potential of beauty. Traffic around the city has increased, the eastern parts, our southern most parts, our northern areas as well as the far west areas, traffic, commerce and beauty is there. From Clinton to Flowood, from Canton to Terry, our greater Jackson area is indeed beautiful. It does trouble me though how every other major Metropolitan area in the U.S.A. work together for the sake of commerce, economic development and overall social development but in our metro area its far from that. East coming into city limits of Jackson be beautiful at night but when you get into the city limits it is dark, you come from Clinton, Byram, Richland or Madison leading into the Capital City of this State its lit up, the climax increases as you approach the center only to drive into complete darkness. I truly believe that the environment determines the mindset of a community. If the environment is toxic and dark, toxicity and darkness is going to be attractive to it. I know that our city gets a bad rep all over because of the homicides, the violence, the criminal activity and so forth especially in comparison to the census population of our city. However no one takes into account that we have a huge suburbia area that increases the metro population by double or even more. And the toxicity and darkness of these areas don't act out in their own domain or city or suburbia area, they come where its already dark and toxic at and carry out their bad intentions. In a population of 605,803 people in Metro Jackson according to Censusreporter.org only the impoverished people of inner city Jackson, MS suffers from all the harmful acts that are enacted here because the dark alleys, blacked out neighborhoods, over grown streets and burn down properties makes it advantageous for negative activities. Let's light up and build up our entire Metro, not just the suburbia areas. The potential for an economic explosion is favorable in our area. Let's do what is necessary to encourage investors to invest in our city. Entergy Mississippi y'all rob the impoverished people in the City of Jackson, MS enough to where you all should want to ensure that the lights stay lit in our City. Let Economic Development provide necessary jobs that our area needs. Let private industry come in to provide outlets for our youth, the only thing available for them is gun play . Put the thnigs in front of our youth that provide motivation right now all they have is despair.

Over the last month we have been focused on beautifying our area, changing the environment to change the mindset, working with those that are high risk where we have them involved in job training, GED programs, skill training, getting many employed, taking them to work, celebrating the Passover, fellowship with our families in Birmingham, AL. The nurse don't need to change the oil, the teacher don't need to do the HVAC, the airplane pilot don't need to be driving the tank. Everyone has a job to do and a responsibility to do.

03/16/2026

We like to give all praises and all glory to The Most High. “I Am That I Am.” We like to give our Father all of the credit for blessing Operation Good and The City of Jackson in 2025. This is no small feat. Mississippi is an open carry state, Mississippi have the Castle Doctrine, Jackson, MS have gun shows damn near weekly. The pawn shops here have discounted sales on bullets. Our city is flooded with those who are less fortunate and dropped off from neighboring counties, but yet our number of homicides are less than half from when we started. We want to send our condolences to all of those who lost their lives to senseless gun violence and from this trap that our people find ourselves in with the state of today’s environment and the constant degradation and destructive mechanisms that are implemented on our people. For the last 5 years our Father has blessed us to do something for our communities, our city, our state and in many communities around the country that have has life changing, futuristic changes, and community changes effect that will be felt a generation. Via Community Violence Intervention and Prevention, organizations like Operation Good have been able to embed in communities that society has written off, work with those who society has labeled incompetent and have already been assigned a place in the morgue or in some so called correctional facility and have enacted change. We have implemented hope to a people and community that was hopeless. We are taking despair and turning it into optimism. We are building back up the black family community structure that has been systematically and strategically removed. The ROCA program says it takes 3 years to REWIRE a high risk youth. We have successfully went through that process with so many young men, and we can truly say that the 3 year time frame is a fact.

What ails me though is that I am afraid that we as an industry is not going to be around long enough for the wounds and trauma from slavery to interpersonal violence get a chance to heal. We have used CVI to stop the bleeding but just as it happened to us in 2019-2020, the powers that be pushed Operation Good out of the way and that is when the killing grounds started. Since homicides are declining, now every one wants to back up from what it took that got us to the decline and divert into other things that are important, but as with any war, fighting it without boots on the ground is fighting backwards. Its painful looking at these young community members that have been going through it and are now finally finding direction get disappointed once again in their already turmoil life of disappointments because the one surety of consistency they have ever had in their life (CVI programs like Operation Good), is doing what everyone and every thing has done, LEAVE. I have been having nightmares lately thinking of that. I cannot even be happy when I see this one time bad actor, smiling and happy because of how things are now going in their life because the thought lingers on me that how will this happy soul act if I tell him we are about close our doors for good. How will the community react, how will all of the youth, the single mothers in our It Takes a Village program, all the young men and women who we got getting certificates, jobs, and living arrangements react. That troubles me, however I am wise enough to know that all things are in Our Fathers Hands. I just find it demoralizing thinking and telling my people, hey its people out here who really cares about us and the well being and growth of our people, only for these same people to put their finger up to the wind to see which way its blowing and then pivot. However until then we will continue to chop on this tree that The Lord God has placed in front of us. These are some of the things that Operation Good has been doing so far this year. Thanks to Scaling Safety, Alliance for Safety and Justice, Cities United, and PCTIA for coming to our city and sharing your love with us. Also as we continue our mission to Change The Environment to Change The Mindset. As we work on our Resilience Center at Marshall Elementary it gave the community the opportunity to help the community. It was much love of having Survivor Speak last week. Stay Blessed Family

01/02/2026

We like to give all honor and praises to The Most High for HIS Grace and Mercy!!! We like to thank Him for allowing us to start another journey around the Sun. We pray that this journey around the Sun be blessed for our Community and our City and our State. We pray that HIS LOVE descend upon us all, and all spite, hatred, jealousy, envy, greed, and other devices of the enemy that is being used for evil be removed and replaced with Our Father's Love. For great strides was made in the City of Jackson, in 2025, let's keep the love, the healing and the togetherness going. We all have a certain job to do, we all have a certain responsibility. We start this trip out still chopping on our tree and doing our part to Change the Environment, to Change the Mindset. LOVE