Trump Ends Wastewater Settlement For Black Alabama Town

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We actually didn’t want any extra proof that President Donald Trump and his white nationalist administration don’t know or care what DEI truly is and the way it works, and so they’re actually simply shifting to hurt Black folks and folks of coloration beneath the guise of preventing fictitious anti-white discrimination, however the U.S. Division of Justice simply ended a settlement settlement concerning wastewater points in a largely Black rural Alabama county, citing Trump’s anti-DEI directive, which, in fact, has completely nothing to do with a court docket settlement.

From The Related Press:

Justice Division officers mentioned they have been ending the settlement reached with the state concerning wastewater points in Lowndes County. Federal officers mentioned the choice follows President Donald Trump’s govt order forbidding federal companies from pursuing variety, fairness and inclusion initiatives.

“The DOJ will now not push ‘environmental justice’ as seen by a distorting, DEI lens,” Assistant Lawyer Basic Harmeet Ok. Dhillon of the Justice Division’s Civil Rights Division mentioned in an announcement.

“President Trump made it clear: Individuals deserve a authorities dedicated to serving each particular person with dignity and respect, and to expending taxpayer sources in accordance with the nationwide curiosity, not arbitrary standards,” the assertion mentioned.

U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi in February issued a memo rescinding a Biden-era directive to prioritize environmental justice circumstances.

Wastewater sanitation points are well-documented in Lowndes County. Poverty, insufficient infrastructure and a kind of soil that makes it tough for conventional septic tanks to work have typically left some residents with sewage of their yards.

So, let’s be clear about this: there’s a city in Alabama that’s experiencing well-documented sewage issues, creating a possible environmental catastrophe for the city’s residents, however as a result of most of these residents are Black, Trump’s administration categorized it as a DEI initiative regardless of the target indisputable fact that, once more, a court-approved settlement shouldn’t be a factor that may be led to by way of a variety, fairness and inclusion program. Trump and his MAGA minions have determined it’s value it for Americans to endure reasonably than enable a settlement to proceed as a result of that settlement was reached to appropriate environmental racism, which might point out that systemic racism in opposition to folks apart from white folks exists, and Trump simply can’t have that.

Extra from AP:

The Justice Division in 2023 mentioned its probe discovered Alabama engaged in a sample of inaction and neglect concerning the dangers of uncooked sewage for county residents. The Alabama Division of Public Well being agreed to take a number of steps as a part of the settlement, together with not fining folks with insufficient dwelling techniques, making a complete plan for the area and different steps.

The settlement was the results of the Justice Division’s first environmental justice investigation beneath Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the precise laws the Trump administration has cited to justify the president’s bid to rid the federal authorities of all issues DEI and threaten state and personal establishments with defunding in the event that they don’t do the identical. These folks had already taken laws that was unequivocally meant to appropriate centuries of legalized anti-Black discrimination and used it to combat anti-white discrimination that doesn’t exist. Now, they’re actively harming and sacrificing Black folks and Black well being simply to proceed bending America to their ideological will. (Oh, and since they’re unbelievably racist white supremacists.)

“It was about addressing a public well being disaster that has compelled generations of youngsters and households to endure the well being hazards of dwelling in proximity to uncooked sewage, because the DOJ itself documented,” U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), whose district consists of Lowndes County, mentioned of the settlement, including that the Trump administration “has put its blatant disregard for the well being of my constituents on full show.”

Dr. Scott Harris, Alabama’s state well being officer, advised AP that the DOJ’s resolution has put in jeopardy the federal funding obligatory for the county to put in much-needed new septic techniques at properties in Lowndes, however he additionally mentioned his division will proceed to do its work within the area as finest as it may.

“It doesn’t change our intent to assist as many individuals as potential,” Harris mentioned. “The actual query goes to be what the funding state of affairs appears like.”

MAGA America likes to roll its collective eye at us once we insist that the Trump administration is a white supremacist group, however the administration simply retains on proving us proper. Trump is out right here toying round with the thought of paying reparations to white Individuals allegedly affected by DEI, however he’s ending a settlement that completely has nothing to do with DEI simply because the settlement would largely assist Black folks dwell cleaner, more healthy lives.

Calling these folks white supremacists isn’t hyperbolic or inflammatory — we’re simply citing observable reality. That’s it!