[natch]

It’s not just the one detail. They also racialized the discussion of the impact and, egads, a cardinal sin, they mentioned the “Gulf of Mexico” and made their mention of the governor’s decision a partisan jab by not including the “one detail.”

[aetch]

It would be more confusing to call it the Gulf of America, everyone still knows it as the Gulf of Mexico.

[dangus]

The white supremacists, descendants of the defeated confederacy, and their sympathizers would love for everyone to stop “racializing” issues.

I guess they don’t want to talk about how black people didn’t even get protection against housing discrimination until the current president of the United States was already a teenager.

This is why the impact is “racialized:” because non-white races often live in less desirable geographic regions of metropolitan areas.

Look at a lot of American cities and demographics of people that live near flood plains and other hazards like pollution and noise and you’ll often notice racial patterns. These are objectively real, not “racialized.”

The people who want us to stop talking about it like yourself, intentionally or not, want us all to bury our head in the sand and pretend like the discrimination has been resolved despite the fact that non-white races are still feeling these impacts.

If you’d like to expand your mind on a related subject, this is a great story:

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983897990/how-jacob-louds-lan...

[selimthegrim]

Beverly Wright has done yeoman's work for years on a number of good causes and quoting her is not merely racializng the discussion.