Posted on 08/24/2015 9:54:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The environmental justice and Black Lives Matter movements are complementary. We cant afford to choose between the two.
Those of us from low-income communities of color are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. US cities and towns that are predominantly made up of people of color are also home to a disproportionate share of the environmental burdens that are fueling the climate crisis and shortening our lives. One has only to recall the gut-wrenching images of Hurricane Katrinas aftermath to confirm this.
At a time when police abuse is more visible than ever thanks to technology, and our communities continue to get hit time and time again by climate catastrophe, we cant afford to choose between a Black Lives Matter protest and a climate justice forum, because our survival depends on both of them.
As a young woman, I started organizing against racial violence and police misconduct. For the last 20 years, I have been struggling for environmental and climate justice. As descendants of slavery and colonization, our communities have lived and continue to live at the intersection of all these challenges. Both have a long history rooted in the extraction and abuse of our labor and later the extraction and abuse of our resources. Both involve people who are the descendants of historical trauma and are now faced with the catastrophe of a changing climate....
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Wasn’t the Mayor of New Orleans a Black Dude?
The media sure are pushing the 10th anniversary of Katrina. They are pushing it for their own reasons.
Interesting to see this crazy attempt to link global warming and the whole black lives matter mythology.
I guess he was found Guilty by Climate Justice!
Can I get a Hallelujah!
What a fetid stinking pile of crap
And what would the conversation be today if we had just picked pour own cotton?
>>The media sure are pushing the 10th anniversary of Katrina. They are pushing it for their own reasons.<<
Biggest whiners ever. 240+ BILLION dollars and they still can’t seem to set things straight.
It is like it is a financial Palestine, where actually FIXING the problem would result in removal of a political posture.
NOLA can sink and never arise.
>>And what would the conversation be today if we had just picked pour own cotton?<<
Old times there would just be forgotten...
Or if Lincoln had lived?
The left act as if blacks have been unable to wipe their own asses since the beginning of time. Liberals must believe blacks are at a minimum at least semi-retarded. They’re incapable of doing anything for themselves.
If not for whitey, all blacks would live like royalty and there would be no global warming.
Looks white with a fake tan to me, like that Washington State NAACP faker.
Hurricanes have been happening since the dawn of time.
New Orleans is on the Gulf Coast, and the Gulf Coast is prone to hurricanes. New Orleans is below sea level. New Orleans is prone to flooding from storm surges during a hurricane.
Mayor Ray Nagin didn’t want to evacuate people on school buses. School buses weren’t good enough for the people of his city, in his eyes.
So, leaving them behind in a flooded city was the better option?
The woman who wrote this screed is a clueless moonbat.
At least she doesn’t live in a Food Desert.
Black people and Democrats controlled New Orleans.
Climate justice? What is that?
If we had had clymer justice so many years ago, there’d BE no climate justice to seek today
Facts are irrelevant to people like this.
Yes...they do...doesnt make it true....NO has been under sea level since it was built....
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