Rep. Tlaib Attacks Bank CEOs, Accuses Them of Complicity in ‘Environmental Racism’

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TLAIB: "So, I need you all, all of you to address racial equity. What that means is understanding environmental racism and reversing decades of it and halting the damage that you all continue to invest in. Please, I dare you all to come to my district, I offered this even to my members of Congress, come and smell what my neighbors smell, breathe what they breathe. Tell me then whether or not you will continue financing for oil refineries, because right now it is morally unacceptable. If you truly believe in racial justice, then you would make sure that you and your team understand environmental racism in our country. That has been a term used by black and brown communities since the 70s and 80s. So, with that I just ask again, Chairwoman Waters, let's please follow up and make sure these folks have the information they need to understand this term that is critically important to communities they are directly impacting in a negative way. With that, I yield back."