just learned that black neighborhoods are so n average 5-10 degrees hotter than white neighborhoods in America bc in the 1950’s when they started Redlining, they didn’t plant trees in black neighborhoods. Trees keep the climate cool bc of evaporation and shade.
— Tiaret (@tiarettee) June 14, 2022
sickening
In the 2023 mayoral race for Philadelphia:
“Chester is Chester. I’m worried about Philadelphians and how their lives are,” said Brown. “And so what will come first for me is what will be best for my Philadelphians.”
“So, you don’t care about Chester?” the moderator asked.
Brown replied: “I do care, but I don’t work for them.”“The trash has to go somewhere,” he added. “And whoever gets it’s going to be unhappy with it.”
There were audible murmurs throughout the room during his response. On the debate stage, fellow Democratic candidate Rebecca Rhynhart said it was “not really an appropriate answer,” while another candidate, Cherelle Parker, said “that response is the same way you treat the Black and brown community.”
"'Quiet Part Out Loud': Mayoral Candidate Goes Viral For Stunning Debate Comment," Josephine Harvey, HuffPost, April 12, 2023
A 2022 article:
"White people are not being replaced. But whiteness needs to be abolished. In the same way that prison abolition involves a grand reconsideration of categories and priorities, the abolition of whiteness will not happen overnight. But we need to work toward it, even though we will sometimes be wrong. We need to acknowledge what whiteness does and what it has done in our own lives; we need to begin the process of reparations; and we need to fight against our own power, as white people."
Baynard Woods, "We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it," Salon.com, June 26, 2022
"A Texas official didn’t know what to do about environmental racism. Houstonians had plenty of ideas." Emily Foxhall, Houston Chronicle, June 22, 2022
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