'Man-Killing Jobs' and Environmental Racism
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2018
- Residents of a steel mill town in Braddock, Pennsylvania reckon with a history of discrimination and its resultant health crisis. Read more: www.theatlantic.com/video/ind...
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I grew up in Duquesne. Same story just across the river.
I did too. The industry is basically gone from Pittsburgh but I guess the haters want the only USS left to leave also. This has NOTHING to do with race. I have dead white relatives from cancer as well as permanently disfigured family as well. The unions were supposed to protect the workers but as they grew more corrupt the less they helped. They did succeed in chasing the businesses to Japan back int he 80s though.
Try comparing the pollution of the late 70s to today and see how bad things are. Go after China, they pollute more than when the industry was here in this country.
We were told by our teachers to work hard to prosper and avoid the mills. The work ethic of our people was unequaled. My family had 4 generations in Braddock. Despite the negatives I knew people from every ethnic group. That has benefitted every child raised in our town. There were 27 churches in Braddock. We had the first A&P supermarket in the country. The Pittsburgh area had the highest infant mortality rate ever recorded in the U.S. in 1920 with 1 in 9 infants dying in their first year. One of them was my paternal grandparents' first son who succumbed in 1920. My father was born in 1924.
Pittsburgh is said to be the city that built America. This includes all of the heavy industry lining more than 20 miles of the Monongahela River and Turtle Creek. Braddock is the sight of George Washington's first major battle on July 9, 1754. Tony Buba has kept our history alive. When I graduated from Braddock High School in 1967 the state school inspectors said we were the quietist and most disciplined school they had ever visited. We loved and respected our school, our teachers, and our history. It was used to identify and inspire us.
The legacy of Braddock, PA. seduced John Fetterman to become our mayor. It remains his residence with wife and children. Now he is a U.S. Senator. Thanks John, Tony, parents, teachers, and the community formed by immigrants from everywhere.
I live in Texas but will always be a citizen of Braddock.
very insightful piece. thank you.
Really inciteful video. One thing, 1:55 shows Braddock's competition, the Bethlehem Steel Corp plant in Bethlehem, PA. Though today that plant is a cultural and arts center.
someone should double check the closed captioning, otherwise very informative and good
"I was born right before WW2, in 1943." Good schools in Braddock.
US history, the war started in 1943. The rest of the world's opinion is inconsequential.
Pearl Harbor was in 1941. Good schools wherever you live, too.
Better go back to the warring states period and try again sun tzu
I think that Braddock's story is more important than any small verbal gaffe.
Assclowns... He's saying he was born just before the end of WWII...use your heads. He's clearly NOT an idiot, which is more than I can say for those of you making stupid comments.
Same story with J&L in the South Side. Grew up there late 50s through 70s.
Most of the US these days is so strikingly similar to the Soviet Union, around 1988. Oh wait ....
But we already have our Putin in power, whereas the former Soyuz Sovietsky had to wait until 1999.
Definitely NOT 'most' of the US... Not an accurate statement at all! Some of the US, yes. Most, no way.
@@eaterdrinker000 lmao
How
@@Plagueroaxh You’ve stumbled across right wing brain rot. It has no explanation
That people is missing in action.
Still happening in Coraopolis, PA now they just moved there at illegal activities here
Jobs went overseas..Face it, Not every one can learn law or code. Lose the factory work..lose the people, I figured out why the bosses would support outsourcing but why the Unions dont raise hell I dont know
You go to work in a steel mill you will accept the conditions you work in. Otherwise stay out and don't whine about it.
what if it's the only job you can get?
@@Kosmo_ZYes. I’m sure the 30 dollar an hour job with free company paid healthcare is the only job people can get.
I though John fetterman made things perfect
That’s a lot of jobs that are physical, there paying for your body when it worn out they replace you , it’s the American way lol
I live in North Braddock haha
Braddocc free the gang members!
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The GOP continues to remove any environmental controls that allowed these things to happen. Vote Democrat 2020 if you want change.
Biden promised jobs for PA. We have just been told that US steel is backing out of an agreement in Braddock. I guess that is what you want. We will now buy our steel from China.
@@JayPlateFaceVideos YES.
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Austin Harris second
How can anyone be proud of the wealth this disgusting, polluting industry brought? The steel products were and are ugly -- no way to safely dispose of them when their short-life is over -- unlike, for example, the beautiful granite bridges that last untold centuries, steel and concrete ones do not. The rivers that these industries were located beside, are permanently polluted -- full of toxic waste. Humans felt it okay to toil day after day for some hideous corporation, but not use even half this effort on growing their own food for a self-sustaining life, not full of synthetic food and goods paid for by being a debt slave?
Steel is the most recycled material on the face of the earth
Your car and appliances are made of steel so I guess those must be ugly too. As well as building materials which are used made of steel to keep you warm and dry. You should research more about what you're talking about before you say it.