BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle (950 hits)

Work crews in Grand Isle, Louisiana, still stand out. In a region where nine out of ten residents are white, the cleanup workers are almost exclusively African-American men. The racialized nature of the cleanup is so conspicuous that Ben Jealous, the president of the NAACP, sent a public letter to BP CEO Tony Hayward on July 9, demanding to know why black people were over-represented in "the most physically difficult, lowest paying jobs, with the most significant exposure to toxins." Read more at http://know4life.blogspot.com Posted By: Steven Muhammad
Sunday, August 22nd 2010 at 9:41PM
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