Thread by @chefcarney

The definition of #EnvironmentalRacism: (noun) A type of racism perpetrated by the disproportionate location of environmental hazards near economically and socially disadvantaged areas”.
#ADOS✊🏾

sociologydictionary.org/environmental-…

This type of targeted neglect has led to #NeglectedTropicalDiseases that have led to the underlying conditions of #COVID19 in #ADOS✊🏾communities throughout America; specifically the southern states.

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What were once known as #NeglectedInfectiousDiseases in impoverished Third World communities are now know as #NeglectedTropicalDiseases that impact historically neglected #ADOS❤️communities throughout the South and in impoverished areas in America.

The @POTUS and his Administration must include language in #environmental legislation that addresses #EnvironmentalRacism in #ADOS✊🏾 communities in the next #InfrastructureBill. We also demand #Reparations that is specific to this group.

mississippifreepress.org/7120/is-facing…

“Historically, Mississippi has always shared an autonomous exclusivity in the United States of America. The Magnolia State was born out of chattel slavery and was officially brought into the Union in 1817.”

“The white population in Mississippi is 59.1%, while the Black population, which I refer to as the American Descendants of Slavery, or ADOS, is 37.8%.”

“Erica Hensley, a former Mississippi Today journalist, reported earlier this year about the environmental racism that is occurring in Greenwood.”
@e_hensley @MississippiAdos
@mlbcofficial

“Nearly half a billion gallons of raw sewage leaked into the Pearl River in the first three months of 2020, according to a quarterly report by the City of Jackson.”
@MSFreePress @MississippiAdos
Photo courtesy Nick Judin/Jackson Free Press

“In her report, Hensley cited Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams saying: “The devastating effects of lead exposure in children are as bad here in Greenwood, according to limited data available, as anywhere in the state”.

“Three percent of children tested in Leflore County from 2012 to 2017 showed high lead levels—well above the state average and one of the highest in the state.” 
@PeterHotez @CathFlowers #BeatNTDs

“The overflow of Jackson’s west bank interceptor generally can occur when water flow exceeds the pumping capacity of the Savanna Wastewater Treatment Plant, according to a quarterly report by the City of Jackson.” This contributed to the reason why #JxnNeedsWater was a hashtag

“The runoff of hazardous waste affects low-income and poverty-stricken families living in unincorporated communities who do not have access to adequate resources to treat their now hazardous drinking water, destroying the environment in which they live.”
@POTUS @neeratanden

“Conservative and liberal lawmakers continue to be influenced by lobbyists who support these forms of redlining and exclusionary zoning practices.”
@mlbcofficial
@TheBlackCaucus
@MississippiAdos @PeterHotez
@MSFreePress #MFPVoices
mississippifreepress.org/7748/repairing…

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