Well Son, there goes the neighborhood. Yeah Pop but at least well be cashing our Enviromentmal Justice reparation checks soon!
Posted on 07/20/2022 1:39:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO — The city violated the civil rights of its residents by playing a “driving role” in the proposed relocation of a scrap metal facility with a history of pollution complaints from a mostly white neighborhood in Chicago’s North Side to a largely Latino and Black community in the Southeast Side, according to the results of a two-year-long federal investigation.
In a letter obtained by NBC News outlining its findings and delivered Tuesday to Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said it found that the city had a “broader policy of shifting polluting activities from White neighborhoods to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, despite the latter already experiencing a disproportionate burden of environmental harms.”
For the advocacy groups that spurred the federal government’s investigation, Tuesday’s findings came as a colossal victory.
“The tide of segregation and environmental racism in Chicago has been devastating Black and brown communities for far too long,” the groups said in a joint statement. “This federal investigation from HUD shows without a doubt that systemic racism in Chicago is creating sacrifice zones and putting the most vulnerable in harm’s way. All eyes are now on the Mayor’s office and City Council to take accountability and end the systems that allow the dirtiest industries to pile up in our communities.”
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those racist democrats are at it again
That’s because ... that’s because ... uhhhhh ... it was those Republicans ... the racist Republicans running Chicago did that. That’s the ticket.
Chicago will pay a large settlement, that will be reimbursed by the Feds, that will be paid to local, hard left, civil rights groups. It is a racket.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot might as well put on a KKK hood and start singing Dixie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, put on some Whiteface.
Go ahead and move the pollution back to white neighborhoods—and watch what happens next.
Hint: Those evil white taxpayers will move out of town.
;-)
I thought dead-lining a neighborhood was illegal?
What about all the black and brown peoples 0bama is displacing as he builds his shrine to himself in ChicagoLand?
What cha’ got to say about THAT, Ms. LightLoafers? Huh? Huh?
Its HUD writing expansive new "laws" that Congress never approved, and then using unlimited legal and financial power to bludgeon citizens and cities into following them. Its how all Fed.gov regulatory agencies operate.
and the jobs and industry will go to Mexico, China, India, etc...
Wat da left say vs. wat da left do.
The idiots that live in those areas will still vote Democrat though . . .
I assume the “white” and “black” could be replaced with “rich” and “poor”. But where is the money in that?
“hose racist democrats are at it again”
Yep. There is exactly one major organization that is “systemically racist” in the USA, and it’s the Democrat party.
As the article points out, that area is already heavily-polluted from past and current industrial sites. There has been some environmental recovery, for example, at Wolf Lake. Old steel mills have been replaced by industrial parks of warehouses and small manufacturing. I can see how people would prefer to keep moving in that direction. By the way, there are still plenty of whites living in that atea.
Well Son, there goes the neighborhood. Yeah Pop but at least well be cashing our Enviromentmal Justice reparation checks soon!
Yes, this is a classic Obama/Holder tactic. Use the power of the federal government (when Rats are in control) to “find” civil rights violations and then force taxpayers (i.e. white people) to pay the fine which then goes to the civil rights groups (black people) to enrich themselves and the democrat party.
The unions, environmental groups, and the ACLU, SPLC, etc. do the same thing. When the Republican neo-cons are in power, the money flows to the defense contractors. It is a gigantic racket by both parties.
The irony is that this means even fewer jobs in minority areas. Have a dirty industrial business? Whites only.
Well played sir!
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