re: #152 ladycatnip

#104 kansas

Thanks for the video. This guy is out there. “White polluters” steering polution to the black communities. Now there’s paranoia for ya. So why wouild we give him any credit when he believes this nonsense.

Actually, it happens a lot. It’s an economic issue. If you are setting up a recycling center, for instance, which requires a fair amount of space, are you going to purchase land on the rich side of town, where land costs are huge, or on the poor side of town where it is cheap?

So, yeah, polluting industries and facilities end up where the land is cheap. Is that racism? Not by a capitalist standard, that’s business. Is the fact that municipal and state governments let it happen again and again with lax zoning laws and enforcement racism?

Now *that’s* a good question for discussion. There is absolutely no doubt that poor people, be they poor whites in Appalachian coal country, or blacks and hispanics in urban environments, get the shit end of the stick with filthy industries.