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[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05042023/california-race-oil-gas-drilling/ by Liza Gross 5/4/23 Inside Climate News] | [https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05042023/california-race-oil-gas-drilling/ by Liza Gross 5/4/23 Inside Climate News] | ||
Even as fossil fuel extraction declined in the state, low-income, Black and Hispanic residents continued to face disproportionate risks from living near wells, and Black residents were exposed to the most intensive operations. | Even as fossil fuel extraction declined in the state, low-income, Black and Hispanic residents continued to face disproportionate risks from living near wells, and Black residents were exposed to the most intensive operations. | ||
=====Next time someone questions America’s history of racism, show them this video===== | |||
[https://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8911573/racism-slavery-mass-incarceration by German Lopez 8/7/15 Vox] | |||
America has a long history of systemic racism: From the dehumanization of black people to justify slavery to the policies of segregation and mass incarceration that followed emancipation, the country has always made it difficult for many minorities to rise out of their literal and figurative shackles. | |||
