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'If white people were still here, this wouldn’t happen': the majority-Black town flooded with sewage (Illinois)
The Guardian ^
| 2-11-21
| Eric Lutz
Posted on 02/12/2021 12:39:54 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome
“...residents of Centreville, a nearly all-Black town of 5,000 in southern Illinois....” Blaming ‘whitey’ is a stretch based upon this statement.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:01:23 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: dynachrome
What percentage of HUD homes, I wonder.
Maybe this is an Andrew “Son of Sffaccim” Cuomo ‘special project’ when he was HUD Secretary.
We all know he screws up pretty much everything he touches.....that is, if he doesn’t kill it.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:01:50 PM PST
by
nesnah
(Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
To: dynachrome
just a 12-minute drive from downtown East St Louis I had the opportunity to travel through East St. Louis almost 25 years ago. It was a boarded up wasteland then.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:02:04 PM PST
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: dynachrome
The reason Whitey doesn’t live there is because Whitey doesn’t want to live in your squalor. Even the sensible, smart blacks don’t want to either. Grow up and fix your own s**t for once!
To: dynachrome
The town is all black, there are no evil white men keeping them down, how come they haven’t built their Wakanda?
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:03:05 PM PST
by
aquila48
(Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
To: EEGator
You need Jesus in your life, sir.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:03:18 PM PST
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: dynachrome
As always, blaming Whitey for one’s failures.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:03:36 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
To: dynachrome
This is Illinois. This town should be a veritable utopia.
Even the Republicans there are to the left of most midwestern Democrats.
No excuses. These folks got the government they voted for.
Got no tears for these pilgrims.
To: dynachrome
This problem can be solved by importing a few thousand Indian tech workers into this town! Yes, that is sarcasm. You see, quite a large number of people in India do #2 in the streets. That being the case, the odds are that bringing in such people would not help the problem. Hence, the sarcasm.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:05:37 PM PST
by
cdcdawg
(Salute the marines!)
To: nonliberal
>>So they are saying that white people could fix it? I thought they were strong black women and diversity was our strength and all that.
Maybe they could find some of those genius black scientists I see in the movies to help?
To: dynachrome
'If white people were still here, this wouldn’t happen': the majority-Black town flooded with sewageThen you shouldn't have given them reason to leave, Dumbo!
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:05:39 PM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Celebrate Decivilization)
To: csvset
25 years ago, it had already been a boarded-up wasteland for over 25 years.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:05:52 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: dynachrome
Isn’t that the town that was/is burning underground?
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:05:53 PM PST
by
matthew fuller
(Corn Pop needs popping.)
To: Secret Agent Man
Maintaining and repair and routine overhauls, replacements of old items still working, are not things the majority of black folks place high importnace on.
Alas, you're exactly right. There are a number of small towns and communities just outside Chicago that were established by blacks leaving Chicago, and they've remained almost entirely black. With very few exceptions, they're unable to maintain even the most modest level of public services. They all end up relying on nearby majority-white suburbs for police, ambulance, water, etc. They have little or no tax base, their elected officials are hopelessly amd shamelessly corrupt, and they won't lift a finger to help themselves and maintain their community. And of course they're entirely shameless about blaming everyone but themselves.
To: dynachrome
For the past 25 - 30 years the average American WHITE man has been portrayed by the media as an incompetent fool. These black folks need to understand even if white people lived there, they no longer have any ability to fix things. Hollywood told us so.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:06:09 PM PST
by
Lockbar
(Vlad the Impailer had all the answers.)
To: csvset
East St. Louis is a setting in the novel “Unintended Consequences” for getting rid of a body.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:06:15 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: dynachrome
So toilets know if a white person is using them?
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:06:18 PM PST
by
Huskrrrr
(Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns.)
To: dynachrome
So, what has the local gub’mint been spending its meager revenues on, if not the sewers?
And who have they been voting for?
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:06:19 PM PST
by
Little Ray
(The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
To: dynachrome
Fixing up a neighborhood, whether it's pipes, housing, parks, etc. is called "gentrification" by these same people, and that's bad.
So you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:06:20 PM PST
by
PallMal
To: dynachrome
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:06:33 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds. )
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