I
live in Dearborn which according
to the stats has the worst air quality in the state. I am pretty sure
the neighborhoods used to be as lilly white as white can be, (hello Orville
Hubbard) and I am also sure the pollution was just as high then as it is
now. Neighborhoods are arabic, white and black, and the pollution still
makes it impossible to enjoy a nice summer day.
Companies offer
reasons for people not to fight backlow low taxes, etc) or build in
areas where low-income people can't fight back. ( I
think that race (there really is only human race, its H s
sapiens) has very little to do with it. Color has a lot to do with it,
the color is green.
E.
Britt
Actually the
situation is more complicated than that. It depends on where you live
and the role ethnicity/national origin played. Delray, another place
with historically bad contamination, used to be largely populated by
Hungarians when Eastern Europeans were lower on the pecking order.
Similarly, Italians
in Dearborn faced discrimination
as well. The place in Dearborn, the south end, with
the monitor for the worst is overwhelmingly Arab, mostly Yemeni
immigrants. It has been that way for a good while now. It may have
been ?lily white? at one point but not in my memory and I have been in
Detroit 50 years.
I?d don?t know for
sure, but I would be willing to bet that before the Yemeni there were
Italians. Like I said, it?s complicated. But discrimination based
on class race and ethnicity usually plays into it. You don?t find the
?captains of industry? living in the messes from which they profit.
Kim Hunter
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In a
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Kathryn Savoie
wrote:
> Ninety percent of states with facilities have
disproportionately
> high percentages of people of color living in
host neighborhoods.
> States with the 10 largest differences in
people-of-color
> percentages between host neighborhoods and non-host
areas include.
>
> --Michigan (66 vs. 19
percent)
I
live in Dearborn which according to the stats has the worst air quality in the
state. I am pretty sure the neighborhoods used to be as lilly white as
white can be, (hello Orville Hubbard) and I am also sure the pollution
was just as high then as it is now. Neighborhoods are arabic, white and
black, and the pollution still makes it impossible to enjoy a nice summer
day.
Companies offer
reasons for people not to fight backlow low taxes, etc) or build in
areas where low-income people can't fight back. ( I
think that race (there really is only human race, its H s
sapiens) has very little to do with it. Color has a lot to do with it,
the color is green.