Freedom Hill | Environmental Racism
Clip: Season 16 Episode 4 | 53sVideo has Closed Captions
In America, marginalized communities are the target of harmful environmental decisions.
In cities and town across America, communities of color and people living in poorer neighborhoods have been the target of environmental racism. The unfair decisions and practices by local, state and federal governments, companies and organizations undermine the health and well-being of people as in the case of the historic Black town of Princeville, North Carolina.
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Freedom Hill | Environmental Racism
Clip: Season 16 Episode 4 | 53sVideo has Closed Captions
In cities and town across America, communities of color and people living in poorer neighborhoods have been the target of environmental racism. The unfair decisions and practices by local, state and federal governments, companies and organizations undermine the health and well-being of people as in the case of the historic Black town of Princeville, North Carolina.
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(crowd clamoring) (crowd clamoring) (clamoring) PURIFOY: Environmental racism is the targeting of communities of color for various forms of environmental harm.
There's really an important component to environmental racism that I think is really critical to the stories of communities like Princeville, and that is this sense of land devaluation and protection of white property.
Black folks weren't intended ever to have property and land in the United States.
We were property.
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