The self inflicted black problems

[IM2]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

 

[JGalt]

I wasn't aware that the EPA was staffed entirely by white folks.

Thanks. I learn something new on here every day.

 

[miketx]

Blah blah blah...black....blah blah blah...white....blah blah blah Trump....

 

[JGalt]

Blah blah blah...black....blah blah blah...white....blah blah blah Trump....

blah...black....blah blah blah...white....blah blah blah Whitey....

 

[Pete7469]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

Keep voting democrook shithead, that'll fix it....

In maybe another 50 years...


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[Rambunctious]

Blah Blah Blah white privilege...Blah Blah Blah....Trump Russia....Blah Blah Blah...

 

[MisterBeale]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

 

[JGalt]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Poverty is no more a "violation" of human rights than prosperity could be considered a "constitutional right." True, everyone has the same opportunity to become prosperous under the rights and protections guaranteed to us by the constitution, but it's not going to be handed to them on a taxpayer-funded silver platter. To people like Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders, "poverty" is nothing more than a loaded word used to garner votes from the poor, and ultimately intended for the gain of political power. Everyone is already well aware of how their brand of socialism inevitably fails, thereby creating even more poverty.

The Republican Party and more specifically President Trump is doing more to eliminate poverty than any socialist, Marxist, or Democrat could ever dream of.

 

[IM2]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Poverty is no more a "violation" of human rights than prosperity could be considered a "constitutional right." True, everyone has the same opportunity to become prosperous under the rights and protections guaranteed to us by the constitution, but it's not going to be handed to them on a taxpayer-funded silver platter. To people like Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders, "poverty" is nothing more than a loaded word used to garner votes from the poor, and ultimately intended for the gain of political power. Everyone is already well aware of how their brand of socialism inevitably fails, thereby creating even more poverty.

The Republican Party and more specifically President Trump is doing more to eliminate poverty than any socialist, Marxist, or Democrat could ever dream of.

Bullshit.

 

[IM2]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Democrats are not perfect but at least they try something.

 

[IM2]

Look at all the snowflakes cry. Get your Kleenex ready bitches, cause you got more coming.

 

[Intolerant]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Democrats are not perfect but at least they try something.

And it never works.

 

[IM2]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Democrats are not perfect but at least they try something.

And it never works.

What never has worked is what republicans try.

 

[MisterBeale]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Democrats are not perfect but at least they try something.

Yes, but are their attempts misguided?

They attempt to use government and FORCE people to "help" others. . . .

Is that right? Of course not, compelling others by force is never right. Social engineering is usually done for ulterior reasons.

Now, I am NOT disagreeing with you. We are a communal, a social species. If you look at the fossil record, or study physical anthropology, say primatogy, even our closest relatives, the chimps and bonobos, do either one of two things, take care of the least able in their social groups or kill them.

IT is up to us to do the same.

When we study cultural anthropology, throughout human history, we have evolved as a species, and survived, only by taking care of the least among our members. With that said, only through allowing the strongest in our society the ability to make free choices how to act, can we accomplish the greatest prosperity for all.

What is breaking down are the social and ethical mores that evolved by having the strong helping and protecting the weak.

The rich and powerful no longer care about the poor and powerless.

On top of that, they are tricking folks like you into believing they are something other than they are. And they are also fooling others to be your enemies, when in reality, we are all their victims. Look at the reactions you got when you posted this thread.

This is a time honored tactic the powerful use when they feel their power shifing and slipping away, divide and conquer.


Instead of some white person saying, hey, IM2, You know what, the EPA is corrupt and fucks over whites too, we should all ban together and end onerous self-bureaucracy the protects giant corporations. What did the brain washed fools do? Criticize instead of contribute. It is a problem that affects everyone.

Corporations do it to poor whites as well as poor blacks. These folks know you have a reputation for only giving a shit about your people, which, to be honest, is fair, because they only care about theirs. But we are Americans, we should care about everyone.

EPA Pollutes River, Uses Scare Tactics To Take Control Of A Colorado Town
EPA Pollutes River, Uses Scare Tactics To Take Control Of A Colorado Town

"A decades-long battle between federal environmental officials and a small Colorado town is about to end in the government’s favor, thanks to the agency-caused Gold King Mine spill disaster, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives have focused intently on Silverton, Colorado since the mid-1990s, accumulating evidence — and sometimes using scare tactics — to persuade residents to drop their opposition to a Superfund designation for the surrounding region.

Residents surrendered to federal demands only after an EPA work-crew turned the nearby Animas River bright yellow for nearly a week by releasing a three-million-gallon flood of acidic mine waste under extremely questionable circumstances in August 2015.. . . "

If you know how these fascists work, it doesn't matter who is in office, the corporations stack the bureaucracy to protect the corporate and the Wall-street bottom line, NOT the people . . .


IN this one, you will specifically SEE an EPA head, who was once a corporate manager. . .

If Democrats are so great, how come there are no union bosses in those positions of power? How come there are no professors, scientists or University presidents?

I know how this game works, we have lost our way IM2.

We need to have an HONEST discussion of the corporatism and fascism investing our nation. Your blind devotion to the democrats that Malcom X warned you about is part of this problem.

Incidentally, the Democrats have you believing that the reason blacks are so economically behind is because they had didn't have as much wealth at the beginning of the nation. I watched a documentary on Netflix by a Black Rapper, and I found out that this is mostly false.

In the past, during segregation, when the black community knew how to keep it's dollar in it's own community, knew how to invest in infrastructure, and grow it's wealth, kept it's families together, it was significantly MORE wealthy. Thus, your the premise that reparations will solve this makes no sense.

This community needs education. It needs to spend less, invest more. Not look for government to solve its problems.

5 Reasons Why Black People Are Still Broke

 

[MisterBeale]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Democrats are not perfect but at least they try something.

And it never works.

. . . that's not entirely true.

It keeps the black community down, and it keeps them voting Democrat.

Battered wife syndrome.

 

[theHawk]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

When black people’s white privilege isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be...

 

[harmonica]

the blacks were far behind the whites long before the whites got to Africa
so, you are saying the whites cause the black's problems?
??

 

[IM2]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Democrats are not perfect but at least they try something.

And it never works.

. . . that's not entirely true.

It keeps the black community down, and it keeps them voting Democrat.

Battered wife syndrome.

And what the fuck would voting republican change?

 

[IM2]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Democrats are not perfect but at least they try something.

Yes, but are their attempts misguided?

They attempt to use government and FORCE people to "help" others. . . .

Is that right? Of course not, compelling others by force is never right. Social engineering is usually done for ulterior reasons.

Now, I am NOT disagreeing with you. We are a communal, a social species. If you look at the fossil record, or study physical anthropology, say primatogy, even our closest relatives, the chimps and bonobos, do either one of two things, take care of the least able in their social groups or kill them.

IT is up to us to do the same.

When we study cultural anthropology, throughout human history, we have evolved as a species, and survived, only by taking care of the least among our members. With that said, only through allowing the strongest in our society the ability to make free choices how to act, can we accomplish the greatest prosperity for all.

What is breaking down are the social and ethical mores that evolved by having the strong helping and protecting the weak.

The rich and powerful no longer care about the poor and powerless.

On top of that, they are tricking folks like you into believing they are something other than they are. And they are also fooling others to be your enemies, when in reality, we are all their victims. Look at the reactions you got when you posted this thread.

This is a time honored tactic the powerful use when they feel their power shifing and slipping away, divide and conquer.


Instead of some white person saying, hey, IM2, You know what, the EPA is corrupt and fucks over whites too, we should all ban together and end onerous self-bureaucracy the protects giant corporations. What did the brain washed fools do? Criticize instead of contribute. It is a problem that affects everyone.

Corporations do it to poor whites as well as poor blacks. These folks know you have a reputation for only giving a shit about your people, which, to be honest, is fair, because they only care about theirs. But we are Americans, we should care about everyone.

EPA Pollutes River, Uses Scare Tactics To Take Control Of A Colorado Town
EPA Pollutes River, Uses Scare Tactics To Take Control Of A Colorado Town

"A decades-long battle between federal environmental officials and a small Colorado town is about to end in the government’s favor, thanks to the agency-caused Gold King Mine spill disaster, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives have focused intently on Silverton, Colorado since the mid-1990s, accumulating evidence — and sometimes using scare tactics — to persuade residents to drop their opposition to a Superfund designation for the surrounding region.

Residents surrendered to federal demands only after an EPA work-crew turned the nearby Animas River bright yellow for nearly a week by releasing a three-million-gallon flood of acidic mine waste under extremely questionable circumstances in August 2015.. . . "

If you know how these fascists work, it doesn't matter who is in office, the corporations stack the bureaucracy to protect the corporate and the Wall-street bottom line, NOT the people . . .


IN this one, you will specifically SEE an EPA head, who was once a corporate manager. . .

If Democrats are so great, how come there are no union bosses in those positions of power? How come there are no professors, scientists or University presidents?

I know how this game works, we have lost our way IM2.

We need to have an HONEST discussion of the corporatism and fascism investing our nation. Your blind devotion to the democrats that Malcom X warned you about is part of this problem.

Incidentally, the Democrats have you believing that the reason blacks are so economically behind is because they had didn't have as much wealth at the beginning of the nation. I watched a documentary on Netflix by a Black Rapper, and I found out that this is mostly false.

In the past, during segregation, when the black community knew how to keep it's dollar in it's own community, knew how to invest in infrastructure, and grow it's wealth, kept it's families together, it was significantly MORE wealthy. Thus, your the premise that reparations will solve this makes no sense.

This community needs education. It needs to spend less, invest more. Not look for government to solve its problems.

5 Reasons Why Black People Are Still Broke

In 1959 during segregation 55 percent of all blacks lived in poverty. That's from the US Department of the census not some black rapper. Democrats are not telling me shit. Going on 58 years of life and 35 years of extensive research do. You are incorrect on virtually very count. You need to shut up and learn to listen.

More blacks are graduating college than ever. Whites are over extended on credit. The large majority of whites do not invest. And whites have looked to the government every mother fucking day since July 4, 1776.

 

[MisterBeale]

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. So let us begin looking at those self inflicted problems.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out
10/01/2018

Uniontown, Alabama, resident Alex Jones walks along Cottonwood Creek, which abuts his farm. The bright green creek receives runoff from a cheese factory and the city sewage lagoon. Jones says the pollution has damaged his crops and hurt his cows.

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in August and residents who have climbed the City Hall steps learn that, once again, there will be no city council meeting. So once again, they will be unable to discuss with local officials the pollution that has been plaguing their small town for the better part of a decade.

Uniontown has an inordinate number of polluters for a town of 2,300, and residents say city leaders often dodge their attempts to air their grievances. There’s the landfill next to the historic black cemetery that residents opposed from the beginning but went apoplectic over when it started accepting coal ash after a spill of the waste in Tennessee. There’s the pungent odor from a cheese plant that has released its waste into a local creek, according to an environmental group’s hidden cameras. And then there’s the waste water from the catfish processing plant, which contributes to an overwhelmed sewage system that spills fecal matter into local waterways.

Many residents feel all this pollution has been dumped in their backyard — and allowed to continue — because for the most part, they are black, poor and uneducated.

“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. “The EPA is supposed to be the Environmental Protection Agency, but they’re protecting the rich. What do they do for us? Nothing.”

It’s a similar story across Alabama and much of the country. Many minority communities say their towns have been targeted by polluting industries because residents have few resources to put up a fight, and state and federal agencies have largely sided with industry when locals have challenged polluters.

When Big Polluters Come To Small Towns, Black Residents Lose Out | HuffPost

Despite laws/policies that have denied us equality, whites claim the problems blacks face today are self inflicted. Yep blacks dumped waste into their water and damaged their farms.

The political elites in the U.S., no matter what color they are, black, white, Jewish, Asian, etc. DO NOT consider being in poverty a violation of human rights.

This is a discussion with Ajamu S. Baraka, Jill Stein's former VP.

Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights | Black Agenda Report

Although you are being trolled by the typical callous folks, what some of them are saying is not false. Both parties are completely free to ignore the poor. They know that the poor will not hold them accountable and are not enfranchised. It doesn't matter what they do.

Democrats are not perfect but at least they try something.

Yes, but are their attempts misguided?

They attempt to use government and FORCE people to "help" others. . . .

Is that right? Of course not, compelling others by force is never right. Social engineering is usually done for ulterior reasons.

Now, I am NOT disagreeing with you. We are a communal, a social species. If you look at the fossil record, or study physical anthropology, say primatogy, even our closest relatives, the chimps and bonobos, do either one of two things, take care of the least able in their social groups or kill them.

IT is up to us to do the same.

When we study cultural anthropology, throughout human history, we have evolved as a species, and survived, only by taking care of the least among our members. With that said, only through allowing the strongest in our society the ability to make free choices how to act, can we accomplish the greatest prosperity for all.

What is breaking down are the social and ethical mores that evolved by having the strong helping and protecting the weak.

The rich and powerful no longer care about the poor and powerless.

On top of that, they are tricking folks like you into believing they are something other than they are. And they are also fooling others to be your enemies, when in reality, we are all their victims. Look at the reactions you got when you posted this thread.

This is a time honored tactic the powerful use when they feel their power shifing and slipping away, divide and conquer.


Instead of some white person saying, hey, IM2, You know what, the EPA is corrupt and fucks over whites too, we should all ban together and end onerous self-bureaucracy the protects giant corporations. What did the brain washed fools do? Criticize instead of contribute. It is a problem that affects everyone.

Corporations do it to poor whites as well as poor blacks. These folks know you have a reputation for only giving a shit about your people, which, to be honest, is fair, because they only care about theirs. But we are Americans, we should care about everyone.

EPA Pollutes River, Uses Scare Tactics To Take Control Of A Colorado Town
EPA Pollutes River, Uses Scare Tactics To Take Control Of A Colorado Town

"A decades-long battle between federal environmental officials and a small Colorado town is about to end in the government’s favor, thanks to the agency-caused Gold King Mine spill disaster, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives have focused intently on Silverton, Colorado since the mid-1990s, accumulating evidence — and sometimes using scare tactics — to persuade residents to drop their opposition to a Superfund designation for the surrounding region.

Residents surrendered to federal demands only after an EPA work-crew turned the nearby Animas River bright yellow for nearly a week by releasing a three-million-gallon flood of acidic mine waste under extremely questionable circumstances in August 2015.. . . "

If you know how these fascists work, it doesn't matter who is in office, the corporations stack the bureaucracy to protect the corporate and the Wall-street bottom line, NOT the people . . .


IN this one, you will specifically SEE an EPA head, who was once a corporate manager. . .

If Democrats are so great, how come there are no union bosses in those positions of power? How come there are no professors, scientists or University presidents?

I know how this game works, we have lost our way IM2.

We need to have an HONEST discussion of the corporatism and fascism investing our nation. Your blind devotion to the democrats that Malcom X warned you about is part of this problem.

Incidentally, the Democrats have you believing that the reason blacks are so economically behind is because they had didn't have as much wealth at the beginning of the nation. I watched a documentary on Netflix by a Black Rapper, and I found out that this is mostly false.

In the past, during segregation, when the black community knew how to keep it's dollar in it's own community, knew how to invest in infrastructure, and grow it's wealth, kept it's families together, it was significantly MORE wealthy. Thus, your the premise that reparations will solve this makes no sense.

This community needs education. It needs to spend less, invest more. Not look for government to solve its problems.

5 Reasons Why Black People Are Still Broke

In 1959 during segregation 55 percent of all blacks lived in poverty. That's from the US Department of the census not some black rapper. Democrats are not telling me shit. Going on 58 years of life and 35 years of extensive research do. You are incorrect on virtually very count. You need to shut up and learn to listen.

More blacks are graduating college than ever. Whites are over extended on credit. The large majority of whites do not invest. And whites have looked to the government every mother fucking day since July 4, 1776.

Good news, folks are in support of a tax.
New poll finds overwhelming support for an annual wealth tax
Now you just need to convince folks to give it out based on a DNA test.