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Mississippi state officials passed laws to allow public funds taxpayer dollars to be taken from public schools and allocated to all white private schools. that is white flight. jackson, the capital city of mississippi became predominantly black. in fact, is now 82% black, the black is the biggest city in america. and as a diminishing local revenue from many of the low income residents left behind. as one black jackson resident told nbc news back in 2006, a lot of the economic base was leaving, our tax dollars were leaving. by the time people who looked like a stick over the administration of t...

Jackson, in terms of this overall economic development. if you're not building new structures, new businesses and the like, you're not going to get infrastructure built around it. the lack of overall investment in people throttles the amount of income revenue that people in jackson have to contribute to their own infrastructure. so i think what needs to happen is to put pressure on the governor, not just have the governor cry for help when a disaster hits, but to really invest in all of its residents, including those in jackson. >> got to be proactive. andre perry, we're out of time. thank you...

Provide safe drinking water for the immediate needs, then to find some sort of fix to the water supply systems so that people have safe water. most of us look at clean drinking water as a human right, but much of our water systems if we're going back decades needed to be repaired in replaced. this water system is inside of a flood zone, anytime we get high-water in jackson, the water cleanly station in sewage station in jackson floods. this is a multi-decade problem that hopefully and this administration they will fix. they need to fix the problem with the flooding, with the corps of engineers...

Of regional approach. just as we have electricity and gas, we can have in water as well. >> i do want to ask you about this because obviously there needs to be political pressure as well, right, and there needs to be a stronger political voice, and the city's population, as we're mentioning, predominantly black, yet the state's legislature is predominantly white, right? how does that all factor in when it comes to underinvestment in these communities? >> there is a racialized p pree preemption. preemption is a higher authority which trumps the lower authority, in this case the state would trum...

Forced to close and there isn't enough water to fight fires in the state's capital. parents are worried about their children's health during this crisis. >> fever, headaches, they've got chills, all of that. i traced everything back to it was the water. >> reporter: residents are left waiting on hours' long lines for water. >> i've been in line maybe almost an hour. >> it's been rough. >> somebody got to do something. >> reporter: the city's water problems have been ongoing for years and there's been a boil water advisory in effect since july. >> this has been an issue for me since i came down...