Black EPA staffers privately told activists about racist working conditions in the EPA

Evidence

At the end of the meeting, the seven asked for an informal meeting of only the African American staffers present, without Reilly or any other white EPA staffers; at that post-meeting, EPA staffers informed the Michigan Group about the reality of working as a person of color in the EPA. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 923

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instance of the structural-racism-inside-institutions theme running through ch4 (neutral siting logic) and ch8 (neutral permitting laws perpetuate inequality). — connects to: Environmental racism comprises siting, enforcement, and exclusion of people of color from decisions — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 190; Black domestic workers privately express intense hostility toward white employers that public settings suppress — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 193
• QUESTION: What became of these internal disclosures — did they shape any EPA reform of hiring or practice?

Broader Connections

• Environmental racism comprises siting, enforcement, and exclusion of people of color from decisions #exemplifies (0.82) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 190