12 ordspråk av Robert Bullard
Robert Bullard
Even when there's no natural disaster Blacks have lived the closest (to these facilities),
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I don't think we've ever had anything like this in the history of the country.
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One of the key components in environmental justice is getting people to the table to speak for themselves ... they need to be in the room where policy is being made.
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People may think I am racializing this, but how can you not?
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The fact is that the whole city is now a potential toxic dump or brownfield.
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Then when you talk about a group of people who lack health insurance and homeowner's insurance, when something like this happens, you know just who is going to be the most vulnerable,
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There have been no major studies on tracking tenants. It's all speculation to say it's successful.
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There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.
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These graphic images show our society is so uneven, it is so unfair, it is so unjust.
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We know there is unequal protection.
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What is really Third World is the response. Flip the script. If New Orleans were 75 percent white and 25 percent black, I think the response would have been entirely different.
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You cannot have a healthy community if you have poverty, unemployment, drugs .... All these things go hand-in-hand.
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