It is the Black Population there that is being overrun by bullshit, in a city that used to be HEAVILY DOMINATED BY WHITES when the Nazi-American car industry was DOMINANT! Even the fuckin city seal HAS A CAR IN IT!
Flint Michigan used to be a major hub for the car industry and AS USUAL the White Population did EVERYTHING THEY COULD to keep the Black Population OUT OF THE ECONOMIC GOOD TIMES! And then ALLOWED THEM IN after they knew THEY'D TAXED AND FUCKED SHIT UP SO IT WOULD CRASH IN THE NEXT FEW DECADES! Which it fuckin did. This is THE SAME PATTERN that I have CONSTANTLY COME ACROSS AND INCLUDES;
1) Camden City, New Jersey
2) Chester City, Pennsylvania
Both of these places are intentionally part of my book.
3) East St. Lois, Illinois
This one, East St. Lois, is ANOTHER horrific example of how White Americans would rather DESTROY A PLACE than have BLACKS gain ANY KIND OF ECONOMIC STABILITY or PARTICIPATE IN GOOD ECONOMIC TIMES. One of the things that PRESENT-DAY EVERYBODY doesn't like talking about, INCLUDING YOU BOOTLICKING USELESS NIGGER-TRAITORS is the fact that anytime we had OPPORTUNITIES BASED OFF OF WHITE FUCK-UP'S! From THEIR OWN BIGOTRY, they ALWAYS TURNED VIOLENT! Meanwhile it was the Whites THEMSELVES who created the situation BY BEING DIRT-BAGS IN THE FIRST PLACE;
East St. Louis Riots of 1917[edit]
Main article: East St. Louis Riot
East St. Louis in 1917 had a strong industrial economy boosted by World War I, where late 19th and early 20th-century European immigrants worked. Many workers entered the military, and other workers went on strike. As the war prevented immigration from Europe, major companies recruited black workers from the South to work at the Aluminum Ore Company and the American Steel Company. They were available because the US Army initially rejected many black volunteers in the years before an integrated military.[4] This was also the period of the first Great Migration of African Americans leaving poor rural areas of the South to go to the industrial cities and jobs of the North and the Midwest.
Resentment on both sides and the arrival of new workers created fears for job security at a time of union organizing and labor unrest, and raised social tensions. At a white labor meeting on May 28, men traded rumors of fraternizing between black men and white women. Three thousand ethnic white men left the meeting and headed as a mob for the downtown, where they randomly attacked black men on the street. They destroyed buildings and physically attacked people; they "killed a 14-year-old boy and scalped his mother. Before it was over 244 buildings were destroyed.".[5] The governor called in National Guard to prevent further rioting, but rumors continued to circulate about an organized retaliation from the blacks.
On July 1, 1917, a black man attacked a white man. Whites drove by black homes near 17th and Market and fired shots into several of them, shooting in retaliation. When police came to investigate the gathering of a large group of local residents, several in the crowd at 10th and Bond fired on the police, killing two detectives. The next morning, thousands of whites mobbed the black section of town. The rioters burned entire sections of the city and shot blacks as they escaped the flames. They also lynched several blacks.
Although the governor had called in the National Guard to try to control the situation, several accounts reported that they joined in the rioting. The mob included "ten or 15 white women, [who] chased a negro woman at the Relay Depot in broad daylight. The girls were brandishing clubs and calling upon the men to kill the woman."2 The woman was a known prostitute who had white customers.
Though official reports suggested that the East St. Louis race riot resulted in the deaths of 39 African Americans and 9 whites, other estimates put the figure much higher.[6]
20th and 21st centuries
East St. Louis was named an All-America City in 1959, having retained prosperity through the decade as its population reached a peak of 82,366 residents in the 1950 census. In 1950, it was the fourth largest city in Illinois. Through the 1950s and later, the city's musicians were an integral creative force in blues, rock and roll and jazz. Some left and achieved national recognition, such as Ike & Tina Turner and the jazz great Miles Davis, who was born in nearby Alton and grew up in East St. Louis. The 1999 PBS series River of Song featured these musicians in its coverage of music of cities along the Mississippi River.
The city suffered from the mid-century deindustrialization and railroad restructuring. As a number of local factories began to close because of changes in industry, the railroad and meatpacking industries also were cutting back and moving jobs out of the region. This led to a precipitous loss of working and middle-class jobs. The city's financial conditions deteriorated. Elected in 1951, Mayor Alvin Fields tried funding measures that resulted in raising the city's bonded indebtedness and the property tax rate. More businesses closed as workers left the area to seek jobs in other regions. More established white workers had an easier time gaining jobs in other localities, and the city demographics became increasingly black. Crime increased. "Brownfields" (areas with environmental contamination by heavy industry) have made redevelopment more difficult and expensive. (Translation; The Whites POLLUTED THE ENTIRE CITY AND AREA when they were enjoying their economic growth and prosperity! Kept Blacks out or killed them if they GOT IN! Then LOOTED THE CITY AND FLED! Leaving behind pollution and an economic dead zone which Black People were then STUCK IN! They then went on ahead and begin building highway constructions to DESTROY any Black areas of the city that did have economic stability and/or COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO REVITALIZE THE CITY! So of course CRIME INCREASED because the Whites TOOK THE JOBS WITH THEM WHEN THEY FLED! Then turned back around and kept Black People OUT of the jobs located in the center of the city where THEY CONTROLLED EVERYTHING! Then ADDED ON TOP OF THAT, they DESTROYED any Black regions within the city using highway development-construction AS AN EXCUSE. The same thing they did here in Philadelphia when I was growing up in the 80's. Where Black owned businesses used to EMPLOY Black people and could have been the foundation for rebuilding the economy of the city the Whites INTENTIONALLY DESTROYED!)
Street gangs appeared in city neighborhoods. Like other cities with endemic problems by the 1960s, violence added to residential mistrust and adversely affected the downtown retail base and the city's income.
The construction of freeways also contributed to East St. Louis' decline. They were constructed through and broke up functioning neighborhoods and community networks, adding to the social disruption of the period. The freeways made it easier for residents to commute back and forth from suburban homes, so the wealthier people have moved out to newer housing. East St. Louis adopted a number of programs to try to reverse decline: the Model Cities program, the Concentrated Employment Program, and Operation Breakthrough. The programs were not enough to offset the loss of industrial jobs due to national restructuring.
In 1971, James Williams was elected as the city's first black mayor. Faced with the overwhelming economic problems, he was unable to make much of a difference. In 1979, when Carl Officer was elected as mayor (the youngest in the country at that time at age 25), many said the city had nowhere to go but up, yet things grew worse. Middle-class citizens continued to leave the city. People who could get jobs simply left for places with work and a decent quality of life. Lacking sufficient tax revenues, the city cut back on maintenance, sewers failed and garbage pickup ceased. Police cars and radios stopped working. The East St. Louis Fire Department went on strike in the 1970s.
Structure fires had destroyed such a significant number of consecutive blocks that the director of the post-Armageddon film Escape from New York chose this city as a shooting location for his film about a society that had been destroyed. [clarification needed][7][8]
In the 1980s, the state imposed a financial advisory board to manage the city in exchange for a financial bailout. State legislative approval in 1990 of riverboat gambling and the installation of the Casino Queen riverboat casino provided the first new source of income for the city in nearly 30 years. In 1991 Gordon Bush was elected mayor.
Several major industries operating in the area have achieved separate incorporation as jurisdictions of the land where their plants are sited. These communities have virtually no residents, and the shell jurisdictions are outside the tax base of East St. Louis. Residents of the city, however, suffer from contaminated air and other adverse environmental effects of these sites. At the same time, the city's tax base is too poor for it to maintain its infrastructure, including the sanitary sewers, many of which have broken and overflowed in residential neighborhoods and schools.[9]
Since 2000, the city has completed several redevelopment projects: in 2001 it opened a new library and built a new city hall. Public-private partnerships have resulted in a variety of new retail developments, housing initiatives, and the St. Louis MetroLink light rail, which have sparked renewal.
The city, now small in terms of population, has drastic urban blight. Sections of "urban prairie" can be found where vacant buildings have been torn down and whole blocks have become overgrown with vegetation. Much of the territory surrounding the city remains undeveloped, bypassed by developers who chose more affluent suburban areas. Many old, "inner city" neighborhoods abut large swaths of corn and soybean fields or otherwise vacant land. In addition to agricultural uses, a number of truck stops, strip clubs, and semi-rural businesses surround blighted areas in the city.
In 2010, the East St. Louis community gardening movement began to develop plots for "urban farming", as has been done in North St. Louis.[10] Inspired by Detroit's planned use of vacant land for green development, community associations, nonprofits and universities have collaborated to spark green development in East St. Louis.[11]
How something like THIS IS NOT A MAJOR ISSUE TO ALWAYS BE LOOKED AT EVERY. FUCKIN. TIME! Where around EVERY FUCKIN CORNER, some White Person gets to PICK AND CHOOSE IF THEY LIKE A CERTAIN BLACK PERSON OR PERSONS, OH WELL YOU GET TO LIVE LIFE!? YOU GET TO HAVE OPPORTUNITIES!? YOU GET TO, WHU-whut-WHAT!?
FUCK OUTTA HERE!
It is EMBARRASSING! To see Black Elders WITH ALL THIS PRAYING AND SINGIN GOSPEL AND CHURCH BULLSHIT! When they recognize the fact that THE SAME SHIT IS BEING DONE TODAY BUT IT WAS DRESSED UP BETTER AND THEY FUCKIN DIDN'T SAY SHIT! DIDN'T PREPARE ANY FUCKIN FUTURE GENERATIONS FOR SHIT! Except for GOING TO THE GODDAMN CHURCH AND PRAYING TO WHITE FUCKIN JESUS! FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT BULLSHIT!
And I type all of this because ONCE AGAIN, this time Black Africans, getting IN BED WITH NON-BLACKS and getting ready to get FUCKED OVER SOME MORE! Now because China is having problems, massive economic slow-down throughout Africa! And what I posted above, notice how after awhile the wiki TRIES TO MOVE AWAY FROM SAYING. The Whites stripped East St. Lois and FLED! Leaving Blacks with NOTHING! Then HAD THE FUCKIN NERVE TO DOUBLE-BACK AND BUILD HIGHWAYS AND SHIT THROUGH ANY PLACES THAT BLACKS DID HAVE ANYTHING OR COULD HAVE REBUILT FROM!
You as the reader HAVE TO READ-BETWEEN THE LINES, as if they even went that far to try to HIDE anything. That bullshit going on in South Africa with making the Chinese a FUCK THAT SHIT! FUCK'EM! FUCK CHINA! FUCK'EM!
African Economies, and Hopes for New Era, Are Shaken by China
But as China’s economy slows and its once seemingly insatiable hunger for Africa’s commodities wanes, many African economies are tumbling, quickly.
Since the start of this year, the outlook across the continent has grown grimmer, especially in its two biggest economies, Nigeria and South Africa. Their currencies fell to record lows this month as China, Africa’s biggest trading partner, announced that imports from Africa plummeted nearly 40 percent in 2015.
“We can see what drove the growth in Africa when demand goes away,” said Greg Mills, the director of the Brenthurst Foundation, a Johannesburg-based economic research group. “Well, demand has gone away, and it’s not pretty.”
The International Monetary Fund has in recent months sharply cut its projections for the continent. Credit rating agencies have downgraded or lowered their outlook on commodity exporters like Angola, Ghana, Mozambique and Zambia, which were the darlings of international investors until just over a year ago.
Many economists expect South Africa, the continent’s most advanced and diversified economy, to slide into a recession this year, a projection disputed by the government. As Africa’s biggest exporter of iron ore to China, South Africa is suffering from a slump in mining, as well as in other sectors like manufacturing and agriculture.
Like the currencies of many commodity-exporting nations, South Africa’s rand has declined sharply in recent months because of the worldwide fall in prices of raw materials and because of poor government policies. The weak rand will make it more painful for South Africa, which is experiencing the worst drought in a generation and is usually an exporter of agricultural products, to import corn, the nation’s staple.
Higher food prices could pose a challenge to the government of the nation’s president, Jacob Zuma, who is confronting widening public anger over rising income inequality and whose party, the African National Congress, is expected to face serious challenges in municipal elections this year.
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and oil producer, is reeling from the crash in crude prices, at the same time President Muhammadu Buhari tries to deal with Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group that has long terrorized the nation. With oil accounting for 80 percent of government revenue, the government may also lack the resources to quell potential unrest in the Niger Delta, the source of the country’s oil.
Nigeria’s currency, the naira, collapsed to record lows this month after Nigeria’s central bank placed restrictions on the sale of American dollars to protect its shrinking foreign reserves. The currency fell to about 300 naira to the dollar in Nigeria’s black market, down from about 240 early last month.
Weakening currencies will make it harder for Nigeria — and many other African governments — to repay China for loans used to build large infrastructure projects. The tumbling naira and China’s downturn are also reverberating across private businesses, large and small.
Happiness Awonegbe, a businessman in Lagos, Nigeria, whose companies import paper, tires and other goods from China, said the restrictions on the dollar had made it difficult for him to place orders with Chinese suppliers. When he can place an order, his Chinese suppliers now take 50 days to fill it instead of 30, apparently because of reductions in their work force, Mr. Awonegbe said.
“We are feeling so much this spillover effect,” said Mr. Awonegbe, who employs 50 people. “What happens in China affects Nigeria.”
As the slumping economies have underscored the continent’s growing vulnerability to changes in China, they have quieted much of the heady talk of “Africa rising,” a catchphrase that symbolized the continent’s fortunes. Growing consumer demand and an emerging middle class, while real in many African nations, are insufficient to offset a fall in the continent’s main driver of growth, which remains commodities.
But experts also see bright spots on the map. While previously high-flying commodity exporters, like Angola and Zambia, have been hit hardest by China’s slowdown, other countries are showing greater resilience.
“The ‘Africa rising’ narrative wasn’t true, but neither is the diametrically opposed argument that Africa is no longer rising,” said Simon Freemantle, a senior political economist at Standard Bank, a South African bank. “The truth is obviously in between.”
“What we’re going to see going forward is far more fragmentation and divergence across the continent,” Mr. Freemantle added. “And what’s going to determine that divergence is how prudent countries have been during the good times. Have they embedded macro reforms? Have they saved?”
Mr. Freemantle said East African countries, including Kenya and Ethiopia, which have been forced to diversify their economies in part because of their dearth of commodities, will probably continue to enjoy robust growth.
Even Nigeria, which remains dependent on oil, has experienced growth in other sectors in the past decade. A rising middle class has led to the emergence of Western-style shopping malls. A booming entertainment industry helped Nigeria overtake South Africa as the continent’s biggest economy in 2014.
Still, experts say, most nations failed to take advantage of the boom years to carry out long-term changes to their economies. They failed to deal with some of the biggest obstacles to sustained growth — like the severe lack of electricity across the continent — and spur industries that would create jobs. In South Africa, where a chronic shortage of power has constrained the economy, the unemployment rate hovers around 25 percent.
Zambia, whose economy depends on copper exports, has suffered from waning demand from China and a drop in copper prices. Mines have closed, and thousands of jobs have been lost in recent months.
Critics say Zambia could have taken advantage of the boom by negotiating better terms with Chinese companies, including securing technology transfers or employment for infrastructure projects. Zambia used revenue from copper to increase the salaries of civil servants but did not invest in potential growth industries, like tourism and agriculture.
Edith Nawakwi, a former finance minister in Zambia and now leader of an opposition party, said large infrastructure projects were often wasted opportunities that failed to lead to economic development. African leaders, Ms. Nawakwi said, could have asked the Chinese to build infrastructure that would have furthered regional integration, business and trade.
“What we need is a change in the way we approach China,” Ms. Nawakwi said. “You get from China what you ask for.”
Last month, in a summit meeting here with most of Africa’s leaders, President Xi Jinping of China pledged $60 billion in development assistance to the continent and promised to support “Africa in achieving development and prosperity.”
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president and the chairman of the African Union, heaped praised on China as a counterpoint to Western powers. Many delegates to the summit meeting said China, unlike the West, treated Africans as equals.
But with the impact on Africa of China’s downturn and a growing trade imbalance — China exported $102 billion to Africa last year but imported only $67 billion from the continent — skeptical voices are increasing.
“The Chinese are not romantic anymore about their relations with Africa — far from it,” said Ibbo Mandaza, a political analyst and businessman in Zimbabwe. “For them, it’s purely economic.”
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