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
    @webba80 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ktm4042
    @ktm4042 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika93343 жыл бұрын

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

  • @classyjj3073
    @classyjj30733 жыл бұрын

    This is really sad and inhumane

  • @cristinad4835

    @cristinad4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    They must stop chemtrails and haarp.

  • @EduardoM
    @EduardoM Жыл бұрын

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

  • @PissyPio
    @PissyPio Жыл бұрын

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

  • @annfisher3316
    @annfisher3316 Жыл бұрын

    Bless this community and and Mr Pearson. 🙏

  • @melo8049
    @melo80493 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cristinad4835

    @cristinad4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    They must stop chemtrails and haarp.

  • @PiLLO360

    @PiLLO360

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cristinad4835 what’s “Haarp”

  • @cristinad4835

    @cristinad4835

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @2chooseluv

    @2chooseluv

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @averagejose9949
    @averagejose99493 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SonOfBmore

    @SonOfBmore

    3 жыл бұрын

    More pollution

  • @irishlady30
    @irishlady30 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @paul2019monte
    @paul2019monte Жыл бұрын

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

  • @2chooseluv
    @2chooseluv Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ktm4042

    @ktm4042

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika93343 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cristinad4835

    @cristinad4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    They must stop chemtrails and haarp.

  • @t.h.8475
    @t.h.8475 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @kayciecarryl3366
    @kayciecarryl3366 Жыл бұрын

    Hopefully future President.

  • @RobinHerzig
    @RobinHerzig Жыл бұрын

    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
    @simplyjen334 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @edgarpryor3233
    @edgarpryor32333 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cristinad4835

    @cristinad4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    They control the weather with chemtrails and haarp.

  • @edgarpryor3233

    @edgarpryor3233

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cristinad4835 who, poor people, or businesses?

  • @cristinad4835

    @cristinad4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @bradleywillis1654

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @cristinad4835

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @justynhunter9976
    @justynhunter9976 Жыл бұрын

    Boxtown

  • @devo2
    @devo23 жыл бұрын

    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

    @tierax8992

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you know it’s not a drown

  • @bradleywillis1654

    @bradleywillis1654

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Nope67456
    @Nope67456 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @therobin9901

    @therobin9901

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @MetatronsRevenge613
    @MetatronsRevenge6133 жыл бұрын

    Neo colonialism

  • @cristinad4835

    @cristinad4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    They control the weather with chemtrails and haarp.

  • @ladarrylemccalpin
    @ladarrylemccalpin3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lukestewart2720
    @lukestewart27203 жыл бұрын

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

  • @13THPR0PH37

    @13THPR0PH37

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @PissyPio

    @PissyPio

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @DavidRodriguez-gl5pn
    @DavidRodriguez-gl5pn Жыл бұрын

    Y’all think corporations care? Hah!

  • @fasteddie7997
    @fasteddie79973 жыл бұрын

    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

    @cristinad4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    They make weather control with chemtrails and haarp.

  • @DerrickHistory

    @DerrickHistory

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @t.h.8475

    @t.h.8475

    Жыл бұрын

    It all goes back to redlining.

  • @rohandamclaurin8568
    @rohandamclaurin8568 Жыл бұрын

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