Replies to post #416034 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Maybe we need a new discipline, ERT....Environmental Racism Theory. We'll need new sewage treatment facilities as the amount of shit Trumpanzees would lose would be considerable.

The environmental justice movement—the fight of Black, brown, immigrant, indigenous, and poor communities to free themselves of unequal environmental burdens (dirty air, unclean water, toxic chemicals, etc.)—is often said to have begun in late 1978, when a group of Black homeowners in Houston hired the attorney Linda McKeever Bullard to halt the opening of a landfill just feet from their local public school. In 1982 Black residents of Warren County, North Carolina, launched a sit-in campaign to protest their exposure to toxic chemicals, generating headlines nationwide.

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, major studies conducted by the federal government, the United Church of Christ, and the sociologist Robert Bullard (the Houston attorney’s husband) documented the disproportionate location of dumps and landfills in Black neighborhoods—a phenomenon that came to be called “environmental racism.”

[fuagf]

Good stat: Banks over decades sucked millions from black communities and redistributed it to white areas. Angela Davis and other black activists back then campaigned against it and wrote about it. i hope that situation has changed at least some. The stat is probably more "contributes to" rather than "causes", but the point is well made. It has been well documented and accepted that lead goes to the head, as well as being dangerous in bullets, if it it still is.