Environmental Justice in Communities of Color

Communities of color in Memphis, Tennessee, are seeing in an increase in health problems due to an influx of industrial plants in the area - now these activists are fighting for environmental justice
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[@webba80]

Undeniably proud of you Justin Pearson... keep fighting for the voiceless. God and we the people got your back 🙏

[@EduardoM]

These corporations love pipelines but don’t want them near their drinking water

[@ktm4042]

Great segment. Justin Pearson is a man standing for the people. That's a real man!

[@classyjj3073]

This is really sad and inhumane

[@cristinad4835]

They must stop chemtrails and haarp.

[@melo8049]

as a Memphian, thank you for covering this. I don't want a oil pipeline in my backyard or neighborhood

[@cristinad4835]

They must stop chemtrails and haarp.

[@PiLLO360]

@@cristinad4835 what’s “Haarp”

[@cristinad4835]

@@PiLLO360 high frequency active auroral research program...chek in internet haarp...with this they make eartquaks...change the weather...

[@2chooseluv]

Water is Life! Along with the air we all breathe, but why make it harder to breathe by those have suffered enough already?

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

" We chose the path of least resistance....", It's time to show them you resist. Revolt. Enough!

[@annfisher3316]

Bless this community and and Mr Pearson. 🙏

[@averagejose9949]

This video needs more views. Help spread the word, not pollution.

[@SonOfBmore]

More pollution

[@paul2019monte]

Justin Pearson is such an amazing community caring man. This video needs to be recirculated and watched particularly now. 👍

[@irishlady30]

You see none of that in wealthy gated communities!!! Not 1 smoke stack....

[@t.h.8475]

What a well spoken young man. I'm glad to see AL Gore still fighting the good fight as well.

[@2chooseluv]

That was awesome! Thanks for opening my eyes to ecological racism.

[@ktm4042]

Sadly it's everywhere, in every state. However, there are also fighters in pushing back all across the country!

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Again thank you. You have to do it yourselves. They won't help you. They don't care.

[@cristinad4835]

They must stop chemtrails and haarp.

[@PissyPio]

Thank you for this. I was looking for something that led to his journey before the recent TN 3 fame.

[@RobinHerzig]

Wow that was inspiring! Keep up the fight, SW Memphis! Bring State Rep Pearson back to office. He'll obviously fight hard to protect your rights + your health 👏 Love to see VP Al Gore in this fight for the people of Tennessee. Imagine if he'd been allowed to win the presidency, how much better our climate conditions might've been :/

[@simplyjen334]

I hear him and I agree to an extent. I believe it is more of a financial class issue than a race issue. Speaking as a lower middle class white woman who lives in the deep south. We delt with factories and pollution all our life. Pollution so heavy it would leave a black film on your car and house siding. And yes I have asthma and my daddy died with lung cancer. I agree it needs to change but poor people can't seem to afford blue skies and that's how alot of people see it.

[@kayciecarryl3366]

Hopefully future President.

[@edgarpryor3233]

It's amazing that poor people and businesses both want to be located where land is relatively cheap.

[@cristinad4835]

They control the weather with chemtrails and haarp.

[@edgarpryor3233]

@@cristinad4835 who, poor people, or businesses?

[@cristinad4835]

@@edgarpryor3233 cabala control evrething..they want to destroy all the world. Soros..Gates...Obama ...Clinton are the slave of cabala...and they work for agenda 21....agenda 2030...depopulation...kalergi plan.

[@bradleywillis1654]

@@cristinad4835 take your ridiculous conspiracy nonsense somewhere else, this thread has an interesting conversation happening and it’s based on things that are actually real

[@cristinad4835]

@@bradleywillis1654 and pollution is produced again from the same cabala who have Chemtrails... Is nou our pollution... is cabala pollution who want to destroy the Earth. They make us to be consumers.... They polute our world.

[@devo2]

No to the pipeline. Yes to the trucks that drive up and down to deliver the oil. Gotta love watching people telling us the dangers of climate change as they fly around the world cause more CO2 than 10 times the average and buy houses near the water.

[@tierax8992]

How do you know it’s not a drown

[@bradleywillis1654]

At least he’s supporting the voices of people in his state that has demonstrated he really cares about, albeit from a position of perceived hypocrisy. Say what you want about gore, he’s not a racist greedy douchebag like most of the current day politicians in TN. You won’t find Bill Lee standing up for the environment or low income Americans, especially if they have brown skin

[@justynhunter9976]

Boxtown

[@ladarrylemccalpin]

I'm south Memphis but not boxtown I'm from cleaborn homes

[@Nope67456]

I would more than bet a quick test of that water and would find an absurd amount of chemicals lol.

[@therobin9901]

Why is that? Because fox didn’t say it? Why don’t you come test it instead of trying to slander it?

[@DavidRodriguez-gl5pn]

Y’all think corporations care? Hah!

[@MetatronsRevenge613]

Neo colonialism

[@cristinad4835]

They control the weather with chemtrails and haarp.

[@lukestewart2720]

"it's possible to talk about climate change without talking about black people" ... Uh, WTF?

[@13THPR0PH37]

Lol. I thought the same thing... Like what?

[@PissyPio]

Maybe if you read a book, you would understand the correlation. Smh. Some people are just willfully dense and ignorant.

[@fasteddie7997]

If the industry’s weren’t there people wouldn’t be there you’re talking about things that happened all over with the interaction of people and industry. You just trying to make this racial and it’s not. In Delaware the politician allow junk yards to be by water ways you talk about something stupid

[@cristinad4835]

They make weather control with chemtrails and haarp.

[@DerrickHistory]

Those communities have been there for generations before those company's. How completely daft are you?

[@t.h.8475]

It all goes back to redlining.

[@rohandamclaurin8568]

WE NEED A 100 MILLION MORE ❤️ LIKE HIM....TO BE IN EVERY OFFICE IN AMERICA...!!!❤️