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.
Thank you, Lord, for not allowing this terrible person to have been our President.
Wow, that Cracker Algore, is now speaking for the blacks.
I wonder if ‘ol Algore has his own blackface problem - has anyone checked his yearbooks?
SoreLoserman
Bill Clinton, we will forgive you for being a horndog as long as you side with us on the killing of babies.
He is still showing the effects to this very day.
How many carbon indulgences will manbearpig require for eco-wacko penance?
What/who is Al Gore, high priest of Global Warming?
Hang this, Chad!
Now you finally see the lynch pin that all lefties use. Leverage any and all private embarrassing info, acts, pictures, recording, etc, for the fulfillment of their agenda.
As far as intelligence of Al Gore, anyone have the picture of him attaching the sling to an M-16 in Vietnam???
THAT shows his intelligence...
Leftism, socialism, communism, environmentalism really IS a religion. You can pay for your racist sin of years ago by supporting environmentalism. You can pay for your sexist sin of years ago by supporting gun control. You can atone for the sin of being rich by supporting socialism.
Gore is the pope now?
Nope. Its either verbotten or it ain’t. No passes for libs. We hold their feet to the fire. It is our only chance.
Blackmail, pure and simple.
Al Gore is still alive?
I thought he was on a compost heap somewhere.
In this Identity Politics Correctness racket what seems to be lost is that VOTERS, the people who get to make the decisions, have CHOSEN their elected officials, and that vilification campaigns to oust elected officials by narrow virtue-signaling identity-politics interest groups thwart the will of the public who elected them.
Al says pipelines are “racist” ... i guess tagging stuff with every Dem trope possible is important these days ... if one trope doesn’t work, then maybe another one will ...
Because Northam is also an environmental racist, lol!
“For him [Northam] not taking a stand for a historical African-American community from the beginning, I truly believe it was racially motivated,” said Walker, who still has property and relatives in Union Hill.
As Northam’s job remains in jeopardy amid calls for his resignation over the past week, his critics say the scandal over the picture of people in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan robe underscores a broader failure of his to commit to fighting for environmental justice and stopping perceived environmental racism during his first year in office.
“I think he’ll leave a legacy that he didn’t care,” said Queen Zakia Shabazz, an activist against child lead poisoning and coordinator of the Virginia Environmental Justice Collaborative. “He might as well be one of those saying there’s no climate change, there’s no global warming. He might as well be one of those because that’s what his actions have shown us.”
I was not aware that one could atone for past “racist” behavior by purchasing carbon credits (or the like). Thanks for the “Get Out of Social Justice Jail” card, Al!
Stunting the growth of needed energy infrastructure is one of the primary techniques of the green socialists trying to get complete stranglehold on all energy distribution. In King County, WA where we currently reside, the county council recently approved a moratorium on all new energy infrastructure, from pipelines, to gas stations, to natural gas distribution systems, to new additions to the electrical grid.
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