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Why is the skin tone of the residents of the affected community relevant?
by mhb 10mo ago
Why is the skin tone of the residents of the affected community relevant?
- ladidahh 10mo agoIn the US, we have a living history of discriminatory policies based on race https://www.thesidewalksymposium.com/blog/the-enduring-shadows-redlinings-mark-on-memphis https://www.thesidewalksymposium.com/blog/the-enduring-shado... , here is a quick overview of redlining in Memphis
- mhb 10mo agoYeah. I've heard about it. So this wouldn't be a problem if it affected a different group of people?
- butlike 10mo agoProbably not because if it affected white neighborhoods, it either wouldn't be enacted, shut down after complaints, or receive enough bad press as to be shut down.
- mhb 10mo agoThat's a lot of assumptions. If they wanted that to be the point of the article they could have done it a lot more explicitly.
- ladidahh 10mo agoIt would be the exact same problem, and equally bad.
- mhb 10mo agoI agree. Which is why I think that detail is not relevant and just a distraction.
- ladidahh 10mo agoWell, if racism in America was over. As in, similar rates of wealth and poverty, incarceration and college degrees, etc etc, across racial lines, then yeah, it would be a distraction. But when economic disadvantage, inherited from outright racist laws, is abundantly clear to see, it's hard for me to accept that we are not still anti black (and anti poor, etc) as a country when things like this happen
- abenga 10mo agoIt isn't affecting (and historically doesn't affect) the "different group" though. That's the point.
- skywhopper 10mo agoBecause the people who decided where to locate it and the people in government who could do something to stop it make decisions about how much they care based on those folks’ skin color. If those generators were placed near a rich white neighborhood, the government response would be wildly different. Mississippi in particular is well known at the state government level to actively choose not to enforce environmental regulations in areas where its Black citizens live.
- redwall_hp 10mo agoAnd TFA addresses this. South Memphis was a community largely composed of freed slaves, where manufacturers set up shop, the military dumped waste (now a superfund site), and people have continued to mark the area for polluting industries for generations.
- jordanb 10mo agoTo be fair they would definitely do this to rural and/or poor white people too.
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- kube-system 10mo agoMaybe. East Palestine OH got a decent amount of political attention.