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Sludge Tested as Lead Poisoning Fix in Poor Black Neighborhoods
Lawmakers and the NAACP are calling for an investigation into reports that federally funded scientific experiments in 2000 spread sewage sludge on yards in poor black neighborhoods to test if it could fight lead poisoning in children. The Associated Press reported Sunday that researchers spread a mix of human and industrial wastes from sewage treatment plants on the lawns of nine low-income families in Baltimore and a vacant lot next to an elementary school in East St. Louis, Illinois. We speak with John Heilprin, the AP reporter who broke the story. [includes rush transcript]

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  • Of course they were families from low income socio-economic status. Rich people can afford lawyers! When the pharmaceutical industry tests experimental vaccines, poor people get "free health care." Need to test Depo Provera to see if it causes breast cancer? Test it on marginalized women from third world countries. Poor people, racialized people, and marginalized people everywhere are still considered subhuman and expendable by the ruling class.

  • Youre right,and now they raise fuel prices so high where people wont be able to afford to drive from the suburbs to the city,let alone live in the country.

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  • @carlmelanson1 You ignorant racist conceit bastard!

  • @oysterman3 You feeling me....Huh? We need to exterminate homesexuals off the earth! Because homosexuals are indeed one of the reason. Why this earth is experiencing various negative weather changes. Along with moral deviant destruction throughout the world.

  • @Baileygeep7 O'kay! I'm with you all the way! You ain't said nothing but the absolute truth!

  • I wonder if there was more poo before or after the sludge.

  • @777jeru a men

  • @Carlmelanson1 EXCUSE ME??? I am black and that is very offensive. I can't believe I live in a world with such sick, racist, and evil people. Remember you will be judged 1 day and not by this world!!

  • @carlmelanson1 wow that's how you feel? what if this happens to your next generation within your family

  • As long as it's happening to black people, I don't mind . . .

  • @jesseperc glad you found that funny.

  • right where the stuff belongs. lol

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