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Stacey Abrams: “We are going to continue to face these harms because we…”

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And you write about it so eloquently about how racism generally takes away from your ability to confront environmental problems. And to your point, when you expand that to the diaspora, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy that We are going to continue to face these harms because we refuse to confront the realities of racism, especially in our climate decision. So can you talk a bit more about environmental racism and not only how it holds us back, but how the confrontation of it can serve to help us dream? (45:29–45:38)

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Asserts that failure to address racism will perpetuate environmental harms.

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