Posted on 02/12/2021 12:39:54 PM PST by dynachrome
Sharon Smith has to plunge her toilet to get it to flush. On rainy days, wastewater spills into her yard from nearby drainage ditches. Twice in the last year her house has flooded, leaving behind the sickening smell of sewage, she said.
Her carpets are ruined, the floorboards are buckling, the bathroom wall is pulling away from the tub, she said. In the laundry room, the worst-hit part of the house, the smell of mold lingers. “I want to move, because this flooding is ridiculous,” said Smith, 59.
For decades, residents of Centreville, a nearly all-Black town of 5,000 in southern Illinois, just a 12-minute drive from downtown East St Louis, have been dealing with persistent flooding and sewage overflows. The smell of it is in the air all over town after a rain, and bits of soggy toilet paper and slicks of human waste cling to the grass in neighborhoods where children used to play on warm days, locals said. Kids don’t play outside any more. Gardens don’t grow.
Like Smith, other locals say their water tastes odd and refuse to drink from their taps, relying on donated shipments of bottled water. They worry about the long-term health effects of living under such conditions, and they say that for years elected officials and local utility companies inadequately addressed their cries for help.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Gua-ran-damn-tee you this is government housing.
Get that dew rag on and roll up your sleeves mamma.
2000 census
The racial makeup of the city was 95.46% African American,
3.38% White, 0.13% Native American, 0.02% Pacific Islander,
0.13% from other races, and 0.87% from two or more races.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.57% of the population.
imo it's saying because we are black, no one cares...and, and, we can't get no help
So, Colonialism is Good ThingTM?
it appears she’s missing white privilege...
I was gonna say, if there were white people left the city might have some kind of tax base to deal with the problem.
CC
It’s Illinois, once the votes are cast, the Democrats who run the state stop giving a c—p about black residents. So there is probably some element of truth to the headline.
The Dems talk constantly about injustice and discrimination. But they cant be bothered to actually solve real problems affecting real live black people.
What percentage of HUD homes, I wonder.
No lie detected.
If white people still ran Flint, MI you’d be able to drink the water there.
My take is Uncle Sugar would be throwing more money at the problem if Whitey lived there.//
I got no beef with black folks, we have plenty of white idiots too, but this is just BS
Sounds like a sequel to Empire of Dust could be made in Centreville.
It’s all so tiresome.
yeah that might be it
but that wasnt the first vibe i got from this
Bkmk
My vote
#1
#2
#3 Rotten black culture of incessant crime, gangs, drugs, guns, rap, and hos drove whitey away.
“I want to move, because this flooding is ridiculous,”
Who’s stopping ya?
This is nearly literally people sh***ing in their own nests and then complaining about it.
CC
How many of the city council, mayor, and city administrators are Demonicrat?
Regardless of race, some incompetent bureaucrats are drawing salaries and kissing some politician’s rear to keep the plush job. Race makes no difference, just entrenched bureaucratic and political scum .... and probably all related.
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