'This is environmental racism': Black community in Memphis resists proposed crude oil pipeline

Fears of water pollution and environmental racism threatens construction of the Byhalia Connection.

Hayes still lives in the house her father built in Boxtown, a predominately Black neighborhood in Memphis with railway tracks running through the center. Historically, the community was one of the few places where Black Americans could buy their own land -- a reason, Hayes said, that the garden was so sacred to her family.Linda Hayes, a resident of Boxtown, Tenn., speaks during an interview with ABC News in April 2021.

"This community is standing up and saying no more, we've had enough," Kathy Robinson, a fourth-generation resident of the area, told ABC News."For the past 50 years, this specific community in Memphis has received whatever the rest of Memphis and Shelby County would dare not accept in other places."Kathy Robinson, one of the co-founders of the advocacy group Memphis Community Against the Pipeline, speaks out in an interview with ABC News in April 2021.

"What should have been said is that we looked for the path with the fewest collective impacts," said Katie Martin, a spokeswoman for the Byhalia Connection, in response to a request for clarification on the"path of least resistance" comment.Katie Martin, a spokesperson for the Byhalia Connection pipeline, discusses the project in an interview with ABC News in April 2021.

Pipeline operators have said the construction will support some 500 direct and indirect jobs in the area, as well as provide more than $3 million in local tax revenue along the route each year. Moreover, they say they have provided a slew of charitable grants to non-profit organizations that serve communities along the route, according to aThe website states they are targeting to start construction this year and aims to be in service approximately nine months after construction starts.

😂😂 Will you loot a store, assault an Asian, or burn down a business. Seems to be fashionable these days.

That should be easy enough to prove one way or another.

DOGE = EGOD = God is destined

National version of ABC promoting the racism narrative. What else is new? Another reason to ONLY watch local news.

I thought this was suppose to be the spring of bringing attention to StopAsianHate ?

This Ratio racist

Capitalism is racist to the core.

Everything is Racism for these Woke antiracists

Am black but sometimes it's annoying that every argument between blacks and other race we mention about racism. I don't like that. sometimes me and my fellow white folks can just argue without involving race card.

environmental racism is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of....

When Trump gets back in and the Republicans the pipelines will go in as they should

Idiot liberals can be working for a lemon state of being bombs

😂 Are they talking about Nigeria, Angola, Ghana, Sudan? “Ancestors”

Thatll be in Africa then

They should also oppose agriculture, stockbreeding, factories, airports... They were not there at the time of our ancestors. Or, were they?

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