people of color were more likely to live near hazardous-waste sites than any other demographic

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Corinne Purtill

The Arizona Republic

Twenty years after a landmark study showed that people of color were more likely to live near hazardous-waste sites than any other demographic, a follow-up report has found that the disparity is even greater across the U.S. today.

The problem is more entrenched in metropolitan Phoenix, where 63.7 percent of the residents living in neighborhoods adjacent to hazardous-waste facilities are of color, according to the new report commissioned by the United Church of Christ. Nationally, the figure is 56 percent.

Black and Latino residents are more likely than Anglos to live next to facilities storing the most dangerous types of wastes. They are exposed in disproportionate numbers to the potential health and safety risks of living next to volatile chemicals.

"Race in 1987 was the most potent predictor of where these facilities were located. Twenty years later, we find the same thing," said Robert Bullard, a sociology professor at Clark Atlanta University and one of the study's authors. "It also shows that the current environmental protection apparatus is broken and needs to be fixed."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0509toxic0509.html

[Niels Bohr 72]

Black and Latino residents are more likely than Anglos to live next to facilities storing the most dangerous types of wastes. They are exposed in disproportionate numbers to the potential health and safety risks of living next to volatile chemicals.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0509toxic0509.html

Is that why they have big booty?

Sorry, I had to say it.

[GaryC 7]

Its a sad fact that people of color have lower incomes. Hazardous waste sites have lower rent housing near them. It's not hard to put 2 and 2 together. I could have told you this without a study. It's just stating the obvious.

[Ban Hammer 14,455]

Black and Latino residents are more likely than Anglos to live next to facilities storing the most dangerous types of wastes. They are exposed in disproportionate numbers to the potential health and safety risks of living next to volatile chemicals.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0509toxic0509.html

Is that why they have big booty?

Sorry, I had to say it.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Its a sad fact that people of color have lower incomes. Hazardous waste sites have lower rent housing near them. It's not hard to put 2 and 2 together. I could have told you this without a study. It's just stating the obvious.

...read on, Gary.

Municipal zoning policies, barriers to residential mobility and housing discrimination all play a part in maintaining the inequality nationwide, the report's authors said.

In Phoenix, the disparity has historical roots, say scholars who study environmental justice issues in the city.

By the early 1900s, the railroad tracks crisscrossing south Phoenix had become a magnet for industrial facilities. At the same time, discriminatory housing policies that lasted into the 1960s confined Blacks and Latinos to neighborhoods close to industrial zones, said Bob Bolin, an anthropology professor at Arizona State University. Once those restrictions were lifted, economic difficulties prevented many residents from moving out of those neighborhoods. Others preferred not to leave their communities.

Hazardous-waste facilities moved into those areas already zoned for industrial use.

They did not meet the opposition that more affluent communities have organized in response to unwelcome industries, often because residents did not know anything about the facility moving in.

[mawilson 2,133]

They did not meet the opposition that more affluent communities have organized in response to unwelcome industries, often because residents did not know anything about the facility moving in.

So the residents in the poor communities "did not know anything", but the affluent communities "knew".

Could it be that they simply didn't give a ####### about their "communities"?

[Nagishkaw 510]

Liberal propaganda...sheesh!

[Reynaldo 0]

Liberal propaganda...sheesh!

Liberal propaganda, eh?

[Nagishkaw 510]

EH.

[Robor007 0]

They did not meet the opposition that more affluent communities have organized in response to unwelcome industries, often because residents did not know anything about the facility moving in.

So the residents in the poor communities "did not know anything", but the affluent communities "knew".

Could it be that they simply didn't give a ####### about their "communities"?

Affluent communities are usually made up of better educated and better informed. Poor communities are usually less educated and 'in the know'. That said, I'm guessing they probably didn't know and/or didn't know what to do to prevent it.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

They did not meet the opposition that more affluent communities have organized in response to unwelcome industries, often because residents did not know anything about the facility moving in.

So the residents in the poor communities "did not know anything", but the affluent communities "knew".

Could it be that they simply didn't give a ####### about their "communities"?

With local politics...it's all about who you know.