..but America remains the king of putting racism into practice

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Yay, apparently it’s Racism Friday here on the blog! Some Ohio town has been denied WATER by local authorities for years, so they’re now getting some financial retributions.

waterfountain ..but America remains the king of putting racism into practice

Residents of a mostly black neighborhood in rural Ohio were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal jury that found local authorities denied them public water service for decades out of racial discrimination.

Each of the 67 plaintiffs was awarded $15,000 to $300,000, depending on how long they had lived in the Coal Run neighborhood, about 5 miles east of Zanesville in Muskingum County in east-central Ohio.

Coal Run residents either paid to have wells dug, hauled water for cisterns or collected rain water so they could drink, cook and bathe.

“As a child, I thought it was normal because everyone done it in my neighborhood,” said one of the plaintiffs, Cynthia Hale Hairston, 47. “But I realized as an adult it was wrong.”

That’s so fed up that it’s kind of hilarious. Like even before black people had civil rights, at least they had WATER FOUNTAINS. Granted, they were separate, but they still HAD them. Like it might not be in the constitution, but it’s kind of a fundamental right. Even the sky gives us water. We kind of need it. Unless we can drink our urine yet without being labeled “social outcasts”. Sigh. I still haven’t lived my sophomore year of college down. How long can you hold a grudge, world??!?!

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