{"id":30451,"date":"2017-11-27T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30451"},"modified":"2017-11-27T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:36:57","slug":"republican-environmental-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/republican-environmental-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Environmental Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fuhrer and his Republican Reich seem to have found a way to deal with minorities.  Polluting their neighborhoods until they can no longer survive is one way to ensure that they won’t vote for Democrats.  To be sure, you won’t find the immediate effects of Trump’s environmental policy at Mar-a-Lago or anywhere billionaires congregate.  They are reserved for the poor, especially poor minorities.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Trump administration\u2019s dismantling of environmental regulations has intensified a growing civil rights battle over the deadly burden of pollution on minorities and low-income people.<\/p>\n

Black, Latino, and disadvantaged people have long been disproportionately afflicted by toxins from industrial plants, cars, hazardous housing conditions and other sources.<\/p>\n

But political leaders, academics and activists spoke of a growing urgency around the struggle for environmental justice as the Trump administration peels away rules designed to protect clean air and water.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are seeing is the institutionalization of discrimination again, the thing we\u2019ve fought for 40 years,\u201d said Robert Bullard<\/a>, an academic widely considered the father of the environmental justice movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people in fence-line communities who are now very worried. If the federal government doesn\u2019t monitor and regulate, and gives the states a green light to do what they want, we are going to get more pollution, more people will get sick. There will be more deaths<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Activists and some in Congress now view the blight of pollution as a vast, largely overlooked civil rights issue that places an unbearable burden on people of color and low-income communities… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I have shared just the introduction of this article with you.  I strongly urge you to click through and read the entire thing to see just how they are practicing Republican environmental racism.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fuhrer and his Republican Reich seem to have found a way to deal with minorities.  Polluting their neighborhoods until they can no longer survive is one way to ensure that they won’t vote for Democrats.  To be sure, you won’t find the immediate effects of Trump’s environmental policy at Mar-a-Lago or anywhere billionaires congregate.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}