Trump Terminates Settlements for Black Communities in AL Harmed By Raw Sewage

[Ozymandeas]

This is why people like candance owens, larry elder and the YouTube grifters is c00ns u call out all the time

Because they will skip over shyt like this but will continue to talk about the karmelo Anthony kid and black culture being bad and not once bring up racial shyt like this

It's because those c00ns don't identify with being black anymore. In the mind of a c00n, if you ignore microaggressions from Cacs, you can pretend you're one of them. Especially if you have a good-paying job, live in a nice neighborhood, live a comfortable lifestyle, etc. They'll read this thread and it won't bother them because for all intents and purposes, they're Cacs.

 

[Cat piss martini]

Where are the tangible/bothsides/racism
in the open c00ns at???

 

[Wild self]

Where are the tangible/bothsides/racism
in the open c00ns at???

Last 2 days, they are nowhere to be found.

They probably with their cult leader Tariq, learning how to cozy up the talking points about how this is good and how this is gonna make FBA stronger. They are nothing without their leader.

 

[the bossman]

The last admin half stepped and did not do enough on all Black issues. Trump is showing that the president can get shyt done if he really wants to.

what has he actually done besides just cut and destroy shyt? (majority of which was illegal and will probably get reversed in the end)

He ended the Ukraine war in 24 hours? He brought energy prices down?

puffed his chest about deporting millions of illegal immigrants now he's already talking about bringing them back.

He stood tall on tariffs? yeah for 24 hours until the idiot nearly destroyed the entire American economy last week and had to walk it back.

but he "gets shyt done" incredible how low the bar is for yall when it comes to Trump. the idiot spent a whole month trying to cancel everything Dems put in place. but they "half stepping"

what exactly has he built for MAGA? what exactly has he 'done' for them

 

[get these nets]

Ehh...Black people down South are not just some poor mass getting shyt on everywhere. The bulk of Black educated folks are moving South for opportunity--and we do often have political power in the cities. These horror stories are not the totality of the Black South.

These 'diverse' metros in liberal states often have been more zealous about gentrifying Black folks and limiting our political power as the South. Ask Black folks in Oakland and LA if everything is a cake walk. How has the NYC or most rust belt cities been looking out for Black folk?

It was sewage in Alabama but don't forget lead in Flint and Milwaukee. As Malcom X said, the South starts at the Canadian border fam.

Crazy that you have to point this out to another Black person in 2025.

This is along the lines of what I mean about the board eventually having to ban people. The level of ignorance here is counter productive. Im assuming that the person you replied to saw the story of Black people being victimized by politicians and his first thought was to disparage Black people from that region of the country..
Some people are damaged beyond repair, and have to be distanced from.

 

[get these nets]

Uncertainty rises as Trump ends sewage settlement in Alabama Black Belt: 'back to square one'

The Alabama Department of Public Health says it will not resume issuing fines and citations to Lowndes County residents for inadequate sanitation.

www.al.com

04/16/25

The Alabama Department of Public Health says it will not resume issuing fines and citations to Lowndes County residents for inadequate sanitation.


However, residents of the rural county are still left in limbo following the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision last week to terminate a settlement with ADPH to address sanitation in the county.


“This is going to devastate a lot of people,” said Stephanie Wallace, a resident of Lowndes County and project manager for the nonprofit Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. “It took forever for the help to come, and for it to just be cut off like that… I was shocked.”



Improper sanitation is an issue not just in Lowndes County but across Alabama’s Black Belt, where dense soil makes it difficult for septic systems to function. Some residents have even resorted to “straight piping” wastewater directly into the ground, an unsafe practice that can lead to health problems as raw sewage can end up in yards.



Prior to the settlement agreement, residents could have faced criminal penalties, including fines and even jail time, for not having adequate sanitation at their home.



But in 2023, the Justice Department settled with ADPH, agreeing to suspend an investigation into possible civil rights violations in exchange for significant changes: ADPH would stop fining residents for improper sanitation issues and help evaluate proper sanitation systems for Lowndes County residents’ homes.



Following President Donald Trump’s return to office in January, the Justice Department terminated the settlement, in line with Trump’s move to end all initiatives supposedly related to “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI.



“The DOJ will no longer push ‘environmental justice’ as viewed through a distorting, DEI lens,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a news release. “President Trump made it clear: Americans deserve a government committed to serving every individual with dignity and respect, and to expending taxpayer resources in accordance with the national interest, not arbitrary criteria.”



Ryan Easterling, a spokesperson for the state health department, previously told AL.com that ADPH would continue to carry out the agreement and install septic systems until funding that has already been appropriated expires.



“After that time, ADPH will support and be available to provide technical assistance to other organizations that may choose to engage in this work,” Easterling said in an email.



As part of the settlement, the department has asked Lowndes County residents with sewage problems to complete a survey to determine the risk to their health.



Residents will not be cited or fined for filling out the assessment, Easterling said.



But the end of the settlement still takes residents dealing with improper sanitation “back to square one,” Wallace said.



Since the settlement was implemented in 2023, the department has worked with the Lowndes County Unincorporated Wastewater Program, a nonprofit tasked with tackling the county’s wastewater crisis.



The department and the nonprofit have worked to survey county residents and determine the urgency of their wastewater problem, then worked to design a system that matches the geology of their area, Wallace said.



But once the funding runs out, Wallace said, residents that have waited so long for a new septic system, and perhaps completed the necessary steps to receive one, could be left in limbo.



“I’m just waiting to see what the effects will be on local residents. How will ADPH move forward?” Wallace said. “Once the funds run out, are you going to revert back to the old ways?”



Wallace said she hasn’t heard from Lowndes County residents about the end of the settlement. She believes many people in the largely rural county haven’t heard about it yet

 

[3rdWorld]

Last 2 days, they are nowhere to be found.

They probably with their cult leader Tariq, learning how to cozy up the talking points about how this is good and how this is gonna make FBA stronger. They are nothing without their leader.

Normal souls can hold this L, but not these cultists devoid of any humanity or shame and carrying classic koon stubborn determination..cannot be reasoned with and are quite dangerous, covid showed us that.

They stayed parroting maga talking points even as family members lay dying

 

[get these nets]

EPA to fire or reassign more than 450 staffers working on environmental justice, DEI​

04/22/25

The Environmental Protection Agency has informed more than 450 employees working on environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion that they will be fired or reassigned, according to an agency spokesman, as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to reshape the agency

EPA Assistant Deputy Administrator Travis Voyles sent notices late Monday to staffers at agency headquarters who work in the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, which the administration plans to close, as well as those who work on environmental justice in regional offices. The “reduction in force” would cut 280 employees and reassign about 175 employees to other offices, according to the spokesman

“This action is necessary to align our workforce with the Agency’s current and future needs and to ensure the efficient and effective operation of our programs,” said the notice, which was obtained by The Washington Post. “With this action, EPA is delivering organizational improvements to the personnel structure that will directly benefit the American people and better advance the Agency’s core mission of protecting human health and the environment.”


The news comes months after the agency placed 171 of the office’s employees on administrative leave and then reversed course, reinstating dozens of regional employees in offices across the country.

“EPA is taking the next step to terminate the Biden-Harris Administration’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Environmental Justice arms of the agency,” the agency said in a statement. “This is the first step in a broader effort to ensure that EPA is best positioned to meet its core mission of protecting human health and the environment and Powering the Great American Comeback.”

Some environmental advocates worry that dismantling the office will hurt disadvantaged communities, which continue to bear the brunt of pollution.

“Every person in this country, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, or Zip code, deserves clean water, air and food,” Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in an email. “These RIFs will ensure that overburdened communities will continue to suffer needlessly.”

The EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice was created in 1992 under President George H.W. Bush as the Office of Environmental Equity. In 1994, its name was changed to the Office of Environmental Justice after President Bill Clinton issued an executive order recognizing that pollution affects poor and minority communities more than wealthier and White ones. In 2022, President Joe Biden merged three existing programs to create the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.
The EPA has taken offline the webpage dedicated to a timeline of the agency’s environmental justice work, and environmental justice is no longer listed on the EPA’s main topics page.
Environmental justice and DEI staffers who are being fired will lose their jobs on July 31. Statutory workers, with duties that are required by law, will be reassigned to other offices on June 29.

 

[R=G]

 

[Voice of Reason]

WTF
These crackas want to be victims so bad.

 

[get these nets]

EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under Trump

The Environmental Protection Agency has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a so-called “declaration of dissent” against the federal agency's policies.

apnews.com

07/04/25