Through studying the intersections of sanitation and segregation in Brooklyn, New York in the post-WWIIera, this thesis reveals a web of willful white negligence that constructed a narrative that supports continued environmental injustices towards black Americans. As a result of housing discrimination, the lack of sanitation, and the political and social climate of the 1950s, black neighborhoods in Brooklyn became dirtier with abandoned garbage. Institutional anti-black racism not only permitted and supported the degradation of black neighborhoods, but also created an association between black Americans andtrash. In the present day, this narrative not only leads to the increased segregation of black Americans into dirty neighborhoods, but also justifies more environmental injustice in these vulnerable communities.Based on a case study of Brooklyn in the 1950s, this thesis asserts that environmentalinjustices are more than just siting landfills and toxic sites proximate to vulnerable neighborhoods, but rather they are dependent on the creation and preservation of narratives that claim minority communities are naturally predisposed to or deserving of living in dirty and unclean places.
ETA: Granted, I was looking for cities in the south that were receptacles for toxic waste from the north, but this is suffices.
Hardly a political hammer. It seems obvious that the interlocked charities and companies are violating all kinds of rules and laws.
The IRS should be auditing them, but as a quasi-religious organization, on the right, with money, they’re triple untouchable. (Which is exactly the way the Republicans have arranged it.)
The law, in its majestic equality , forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Conversely, if the law forbids the poor as well as the rich from committing grand frauds and cons of millions of dollars…
If they find any organizations on the left violating rules the same way, I’m fine with that. They were probably preditory. No doubt some centrist oxen would be gored.
Now, are those two facts connected? NAH! They are freedom fighters against gub’mit overreach! It’s pure tyranny to have to checks notes pay taxes for shared resources… /s
