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.
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“...residents of Centreville, a nearly all-Black town of 5,000 in southern Illinois....” Blaming ‘whitey’ is a stretch based upon this statement.
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.
I had the opportunity to travel through East St. Louis almost 25 years ago. It was a boarded up wasteland then.
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!
The town is all black, there are no evil white men keeping them down, how come they haven’t built their Wakanda?
You need Jesus in your life, sir.
As always, blaming Whitey for one’s failures.
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.
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.
>>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?
Then you shouldn't have given them reason to leave, Dumbo!
25 years ago, it had already been a boarded-up wasteland for over 25 years.
Isn’t that the town that was/is burning underground?
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.
East St. Louis is a setting in the novel “Unintended Consequences” for getting rid of a body.
So toilets know if a white person is using them?
So, what has the local gub’mint been spending its meager revenues on, if not the sewers?
And who have they been voting for?
So you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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