All politics in America is not local but ultimately racial
Environmental racism: ‘New frontline’ of human rights "Environmental justice activists are calling attention to what they say is the new frontline of the human rights struggle — chemical contamination of communities of color — what some groups have dubbed environmental racism.
“When corporations decide where to build chemical plants, landfills, or water treatment plants where chemicals leach, they most often choose low income communities of color,” Richard Moore, a long-time civil rights and environmental justice leader with the Environmental Justice and Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform, said in a statement.
“This is the next frontier of the Civil Rights Movement,” Michele Roberts, co-coordinator for the alliance, told the Afro American Newspaper. “People of color and the poor have borne the brunt of exposure to toxins and have a disproportionate share of health issues because of the prevalence of chemical sites in their communities. You even have people migrating because they are losing their communities.”............
imo, “The left” has never even HAD an argument.
Lying,
Legerdemain,
Appeals to base passion and covetousness,
Then the bootheel.
It has been so for a hundred years.
That's because the rich lawyers (of color or not) don't want to live next to a landfill. It gets NIMBY'd along until someone just doesn't have the juice to stop it.
He should say that to the relatives of the police officer killed by Mumia Jabal(sp?).
He (a civil rights attorney) filed an Amicus Brief along with others regarding the incorrect jury instructions during the sentencing phase of the convicted cop killer. Furthermore, they filed that brief some 20 years after the conviction and reportedly based on new evidence. There is nothing wrong with that.
The conviction was upheld, the sentence commuted to life in prison, appealed by the state, remanded back to the lesser court for reconsideration. Commutation upheld ... end of story.
Now, what’s not being pointed out and becomes obvious once you read the history of this case is that both the murderer and the rejected nominee are both very very well connected on the left and there was an international effort to have the murderer’s sentence commuted.
Now, after a day of reading regarding this case I surmise that the rejected nominee was being groomed to eventually replace Holder, and that he was chosen because of his philosophical similarity with Holder and would toe the current line — that blacks cannot be racist, that most whites are racist whether they know it or not and that he was going to go up there and *not* represent all the people, just merely the black ones, just as holder has.
All politics in America is not local but ultimately racial
The dead are already piling up under obama and the democrat's healthcare disaster. The voices of the dead and dying cry out for justice.
Man, those Republicans are looking good---without even half trying......doing nothing IS a good strategy.
WHO KNEW Dumbocrats were so adept at self-immolation? ROTFLOL.
Dems see racial bias in everything.
On the other hand, I can't think of a more deserving target for a slam of any kind than Roberts, the Fairy Godfather of ObamaCare.
Leni
Another silver lining: Harkin, the Dem senator playing the race card here, is retiring at the end of the year.
FRY MUMIA
Dems see racial bias in “Don’t Walk” signals.
With what he is trying, Tom Harkin is proving what he is. Mr. Debo Adegbile is a scumbucket who tried to achieve noteriety by defending a slob, Mumia Abu Jamal who stood over a downed policeman he had shot and shot him in the face. He knowingly represented Mumia who is a piece of crap just trying to fight being executed. A man so twisted that he would try to get such a goofball off should not be rewarded with a position in the Department of Justice. Come on people, look at what Harkin is trying to pull off. He wants us to overlook what Adegbile has done to put him in this position. Harkin is like the scum you scrape from a sewer pipe!
“When corporations decide where to build chemical plants, landfills, or water treatment plants where chemicals leach, they most often choose NOT TO BUILD THEM.” But low income communities and communities of color grow up around existing plants, because the rent is cheaper there, and there are jobs to be had there, provided it’s not a union shop.
Fixed.
So, anyway, why were they so hot to reject this Adegbil fellow? Was it just because he represented an unpopular defendant? Somebody please tell me. I’m stuck on “he’s an Obama appointee, so therefore he has to be bad,” but I’m curious as to what the stated reason was.