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The Discrimination in the Denial of a Sustainable Future for Black Communities
The St. James Parish Council denied an industrial company's application to build a crude oil storage terminal in the predominantly white part of parish. Monique: The landscape just exhibits that racial divide in terms of where industrial, you know, heavy polluting industrial facilities are able to locate and operate in black communities. "It's real simple. The planning boards do not afford the same protection to black communities in the parish as they do to white communities"
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