Garbage is Racist

Well, so says Sue Sturgis when whining and complaining that

North Carolina communities with significant numbers of people of color are more than twice as likely to be located near landfills and other solid waste facilities

Once again, the only proper answer to that proclamation in a free society can be: "SO WHAT?" What business is that of yours, Sue? Why does it matter to you? Is it only so you can have a reason to take more of my money? Somehow I suspect that it is.

What would you like us to do? Would you demand that we build a landfill in a few golf courses where there's nice houses? Would you decide the location of the next landfill based on skin color of residents instead of economic considerations? Perhaps you'd force all people of color to move away from landfills -- to perhaps MORE EXPENSIVE areas that they cannot afford?

She also highlights shocking new research that indicates that landfills are more likely to be placed in areas where average home values are under $100,000. I wonder how much taxpayer money was wasted on that piece of brilliance. Again, where did you think we'd build landfills -- on the most expensive land we could find?

Oh, guess what? Sue is a member of "Institute for Southern Studies" a "nonprofit research and education center." Once again, nonprofit in North Carolina is a group that produces NOTHING and instead is financed, unwillingly, by the taxpayers of North Carolina via the Democrat General Assembly.

Posted by: Ogre at 11:07 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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