Questioning why whites reject waste facilities exposed the racial targeting of Tribes

Evidence

Tribal Elders asked the company, “If it is so safe, if it is such a good idea, if it makes so much money, why aren’t the white people grabbing at it in L.A. and San Francisco?” By the end of the meeting, the company’s representative announced that he was forced to abandon the dump proposal at Dilkon. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 609

Categorization

• CANDY: The elders’ blunt question is a small, shareable moment of moral clarity.
• XREF: connects to: The single-bad-actor search obscures structural causes of environmental racism — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 97; Environmental racism is a symptom of broader ongoing racial discrimination — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 338; Toxic waste siting itself drives post-siting white flight and resegregation — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 1132

Broader Connections

• The single-bad-actor search obscures structural causes of environmental racism #expands (0.85) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 97
• Environmental racism is a symptom of broader ongoing racial discrimination #expands (0.85) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 338