Is East Chicago the Next Flint?
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2017
- Demetra Turner and her family moved into the West Calumet Public Housing Complex in East Chicago, Indiana in May 2016. A month later, she found out she would have to evacuate her new home due to extremely elevated levels of lead and arsenic in the soil and water. It turned out the public housing complex was sitting on top of a Superfund site, one of the most toxic in the country. East Chicago is one of many low-income, majority black communities that disproportionately suffer from environmental harm across the country. “We’re going through the same thing Flint went through - neglect,” says resident and activist Sherry Hunter. “And it all has to do with poor black people.”
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“This would never happen in Beverly Hills.” Truer words never spoken. I’m ashamed of my country.
J. Landra Raible Beverly hills residents pay taxes and have JOBS
do the people in Beverly hills pay their water bills? cuz in east Chicago they do not.. at all!!
I always wondered why millions are dying to come to this country, go live in an another country for a while,and you'll be begging to come back
@@choppers08mendoza the problem is that East Chicago doesn’t have jobs, I know someone is gonna say “wHY DoNt THeY juST WoRK iN cHicAGo?!” Not realizing that the closest part of Chicago is the East Side (the news calls it the South Side) which also has NO jobs. Your literally blaming people who live in areas that have little to no work.
I can smell the refineries again just by watching this
*when you realize you used to live here*
East Chicago has been the next Flint before Flint Michigan was even Flint. The jobs left decades ago and it's a mess.
No, this is bad! I live in east Chicago and this is horrible
Aliejha Cullick !? This Was In 2016
@@LGFLTACOGAMINGXD It's still contaminated.
Jazmyn Brown I Know
I lived in east Chicago myself few yrs back..still visit and its even worse.the smell has always been there..rip my brother lil man from marks town
Has anything been done?
Ypure legally aloud to burn down whatever is causing these problems
4:35 = 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Maximilian Kolbe whose mans
last kill
MoooooooooooSTAFA!!!!!!
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Stupid 😂😂😂
no it's not
Everybody does not get along in EC and west cal definitely looked like a project
*then tell me why I've been drinking tap water for 7 years and I'm fine.*
Cause the past 7 years the water wasn't contaminated. New things can start. Just cause it didnt happen in the past doesn't mean it can't happen in the future😒🙄😒🙄
Arsenic contamination you finna get cancer shorty
@@mikeeyy434 might
You are probably white, right?
If you live near a white lead production facility.....?
Who cares? I hope Chicago becomes the next Flynt, this is a good thing :)
Dunkin McCackener East Chicago is in Indiana, not Illinois this is not Chicago and there are good people who stay in Chicago! it's more than just the violence you hear about, that's some fucked up shit to say
sam knowble ....Pooh weeee...King Leopold was a treacherous slaver of the Congolese ppl. Instead of hanging him, he was reinvented, as if he did good for our ethnic group in the DRC... Look it up! That columbus man was a pedophile, but the history books don't tell the truth about jack!!! ...& black folk got the nerve to celebrate some columbus day BS 😠😱😠.
@@slavell19 It's close to Chicago, though. That's probably why he said it.