Content Notice: Discourse on #environmentalracism and governmental negligence. End of Content Notice. Image Description: A bright yellow hazard sign symbolizes and reads, "Danger: radioactive material." End of Image Description. Part 6 of "Turkey Point Radioactive Waste Harms Residents’ Health" by Tena Gordon (@reformistrevolutionaryrose): Homestead’s residents of color and marginalized ethnicities are wrongfully victimized by FPL...[D]emographic data from the U.S Census Bureau (2010) depicts that Homestead has higher populations of monoracial black residents and multiracial residents than Miami-Dade County and Florida. Even though nonblack monoracial groups of color are not shown to be over-represented, Turkey Point’s pollution is a racial issue, as whites in Homestead makeup almost ten percent less than the population of whites in the U.S. In the larger context, there is a systemic pattern of racial discrimination across the U.S. FPL not adequately fixing Turkey Point’s nuclear waste leak follows the trend of communities of color being treated as subordinate to white communities. Dr. Robert D. Bullard (1994), published in Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, a peer-reviewed journal, reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contains hazardous waste seven percent more often than the safer option of treating the waste, which removes the toxins, in black neighborhoods, compared to treating waste 22 percent more often than containing it in white neighborhoods (p. 12). Governmental agencies cannot reliably counter environmental racism when they are complicit in discriminating against communities of color. End of Part 6. Hashtags: #EPA #minorityhealth #nuclearwaste #radioactivematerials #fpl #floridapowerandlight #turkeypoint #turkeypointnuclearplant #turkeypointpowerplant #homestead #southflorida #miamidade #biscaynebay #biscayneaquifer End of Hashtags.
