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The residents of Hyde Park had fought for so many years to build a community that was filled with hope, that overshadowed the most blatant forms of racism are now filled with another type of racism, environmental. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. coined the phrase “environmental racism” in 1987 to explain why so many communities of color have been victims of policies that have led to life-threatening situations for the residents. Environmental racism is explained as the policy that leads to the placing of hazardous industrial facilities strategically in communities of color.

— Deborah Dean, “Contamination Running Deep: Oral Histories of Environmental Racism, Injustice, and Outrage of One Family In a Southern African-American Community” (via fuckyeahenvironmentaljustice)



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