People across the country are waking up to structural racism and coping
with police brutality and civil unrest while also living through the
nightmare of the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re mourning losses and longing
for life to get back to normal.
But in St. James Parish, Louisiana, where I’m from — a predominantly
Black and low-income community nicknamed “Cancer Alley
<https://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-cancer-alley-where-toxic-air-is-about-to-get-worse>”
— racism, brutality, loss and unrest/are/normal. In fact, a new plastics
complex and President Trump’s decision togut
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/climate/trump-environment-nepa.html>the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) stand to make things even worse.
https://truthout.org/articles/if-we-dont-act-now-the-entire-us-could-become-a-cancer-alley/
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