Justice isn’t doing so well in the new regime. It’s such an antiquated idea anyway. The new EPA says that environmental justice, which is defined as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income” with respect to environmental laws, is tantamount to discrimination. Can we have that one more time, please?
The idea of environmental justice just gets in the way of letting industry pollute certain areas rather than others, usually poor areas like Cancer Alley or Newark’s Ironbound. Okay, what about justice in other departments? Surely, they’re okay. Nope.
The Department of Education just gutted the Office of Civil Rights. Who needs civil rights, anyway? Certainly not in this new regime. Students with disabilities, victims of sexual violence, they can all go elsewhere. Hm-m-m -- wonder how many of their parents voted for this new regime. It’s certainly not what they bargained for.
Prayer for the Day
We didn’t expect this, O God, or should we have?
We ask for justice but there is no one to help us;
We expected to have a better life, O Lord,
For that is what the politicians promised.
It seems too late for only repentance as we struggle,
Wondering how to solve the messes now created.
In the name of the One who helps us persevere,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
If anybody needed a clearer sign that this administration gives not a single damn for the people of the United States, this is it.
Matthew Tejeda, National Resources Defense Council
In the United States, communities across the country lack access to safe and reliable drinking water and sewer systems, and remain exposed to pollution that causes cancer and respiratory illnesses. Many of these areas were deliberately targeted due to their demographics for the siting of polluting activities.
Cory Booker (D-NJ) and 17 more Senators in a joint statement
O Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill?
Those who walk blamelessly and do what is right; and speak the truth from the heart
Who do not slander with their tongue, and do no evil to their friends,
Nor take up a reproach against their neighbors
Psalm 15: 1-3