Residents have been forced to boil their water for more than a month.
The Jackson water crisis is only the latest example of the devastating impacts of environmental racism. It can be particularly insidious and hard to combat because there’s rarely one person to blame, Jerolmack says.
It’s the result of years and years of discrimination and neglect, and people in power often rely on the public’s apathy toward racism, coupled with plausible deniability, to get away with it. “You can’t find some white lawmaker who said, ‘We don’t want to provide water to Black people,’” Jerolmack explains, but youfind examples of lawmakers who have voted against helping these very communities.
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