Posted on 02/20/2019 8:47:33 AM PST by rickmichaels
Former Vice President Al Gore said Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam can fulfill his “racial reconciliation” pledge by opposing the Atlantic Coast pipeline, which he called a “racist rip-off.”
“This is an ideal opportunity for him to say, ‘I’ve seen the light,'” Gore said at an anti-pipeline town hall in a historically black part of Buckingham County, Virginia, as part of an “Environmental Justice Tour,” the AP reported.
Gore appeared on stage with his daughter Karenna Gore, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, environmental activists and residents of Union Hill, a historically black neighborhood, who oppose the Atlantic Coast pipeline.
Gore and climate activists see Northam’s recent blackface controversy as a way to turn him against the Atlantic Coast pipeline.
Northam’s political future was thrown into doubt early in 2019 after his medical school yearbook photos surfaced, showing a picture of an individual in blackface and another in a KKK hood.
Northam apologized for being in the photo, but, one day later, claimed he wasn’t in the photo amid calls for his resignation. He did, however, admit to wearing shoe polish for a dance contest in 1984. The embattled Democratic governor refused to resign, and wanted to focus on “racial reconciliation,” The Washington Post reported.
Barber said Northam needed to address “systemic racism” to truly atone for wearing blackface.
“If you want to be a great governor, if you want to help lead the nation, the first thing you oughta do is stop by Union Hill and tell this compressor, tell Dominion, ‘I was wrong, but I’m gonna do right, now,'” Barber said in a fiery speech Tuesday night.
The Atlantic Coast pipeline will bring natural gas 600 miles from West Virginia, through Virginia to North Carolina. The Richmond-based utility Dominion Energy will build and operate the pipeline.
Dominion plans on building a natural gas compressor station in the historically black Union Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. The Atlantic pipeline is one of many around the country environmentalists are fighting to block as part of their effort to keep fuel from getting to consumers who need it.
Dominion proposed spending $5.1 million in the Union Hill community, which could include building a community center, improving emergency services and grants for businesses.
The Atlantic Coast pipeline will create thousands of jobs and lower energy bills, supporters say. However, the project has suffered delays and cost overruns while it’s caught up in litigation with environmental groups.
Gore called the pipeline a “vivid example of environmental racism,” and claimed compressor stations, like the one planned for Union Hill, can “cause lots of diseases” and emit lots of noise.
“We’ve heard about explosions and accidents,” Gore said, also claiming newer pipelines are even less safe — though, like his other claims, this is likely untrue.
Gore also called for Dominion to abandon the project and, instead, build more wind turbines and solar panels.
WTF is this The Church of Liberalism featuring Reverend Al!?
How many Hail Satans does he have to say, Rev Al?
So gore speaks for all black folks?
Didn’t see this coming. /sarc.
Wonder what the price is for using the N-word? Or punching your wife, what is the price to make that okay?
ST. ALGORE HAS SPOKEN.......................
So let me get this straight. The fascist liberals have created a rigidly dogmatic moral code, and the High Priest of globull warming is somehow deemed himself able to forgive and absolve liberal sinner if they comport with other liberal dogma.
Man, these people are wickedly screwed up!
The Global Warming Cardinal offers Simony, for a price.
Northam thinks he can atone for the blackface pics by tearing down our history.
Just how stupid does Algore think black people ar.........oh, right.
Indulgences from the Church of the Holy Warming...
I wish I had known AlGore was going to be in Vorginia, I would have greeted him with a sign, MAN-BEAR-PIG
Bring on the shakedowns!
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Pope Algore gives green dispensation to Northam.
Support green protest and sin no more!
Why does Gore always seem to be the political version of Walking Dead?
Gore decrees Northam’s black-face problem over.
My, he must be one powerful whitey.
Typical enviro-nutter action - ban a cheaper, cleaner way to provide heat for the poor masses. Instead these folks will need to pay more to heat their homes and that energy either comes from old coal plants or in the future high cost wind or solar farms. And while you're at it, make sure that Blacks remain on the plantation and a dependency class by opposing good paying construction and maintenance jobs.
Hey AlGod. What’s wrong with 10 Hail Marys and 5 Our Fathers?
Algore flunked out of divinity school, so he failed God and has NO STANDING to say this. Also, I’m not sure atonement is in the cards for Northam’s comments on infanticide - an even more egregious problem.
and was asked to leave law school on account of bad grades.
Apparently that’s different then flunking out!
I guess they hinted it would be best for all if he left, rather then type up an official letter.
Supposedly in college he was stoned all the time.
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