There have been no major studies on tracking tenants. It's all speculation to say it's successful.
People may think I am racializing this, but how can you not?
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.
We know there is unequal protection.
The fact is that the whole city is now a potential toxic dump or brownfield.
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.
Even when there's no natural disaster Blacks have lived the closest (to these facilities).
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.
I don't think we've ever had anything like this in the history of the country.
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