Friday, January 22, 2016

Flint - Environmental racism

For civil rights advocates, the health crisis in Flint smacks of what has become known as environmental racism. Coined in the 1980s, the term refers to the disp...roportionate exposure of blacks to polluted air, water and soil. It is considered the result of poverty and segregation that has relegated many blacks and other racial minorities to some of the most industrialized or dilapidated environments.
Civil rights advocates say that the city’s health crisis smacks of the kind of discrimination that causes the disproportionate exposure of blacks to polluted air,…
 
nytimes.com|By JOHN ELIGON


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