On 'Last Week Tonight,' John Oliver calls out racist housing and zoning policies that have left Black Americans three times more likely to die as a result of pollution.
“Depressingly, it seems that [Villanueva is] going to get reelected this year,” Oliver admitted. “Bullying a reporter might actually help him, just like DeSantis’ and Abbott’s harmful stunts are likely to help them. Because the name of the game in politics these days seems to be less ‘Can you help the most people?’ and more ‘How much can you hurt the people your supporters hate the most?’ ”
This, in part, has to do with decades of redlining, the practice of starving certain communities — typically ones of color — of investment or financial services, which both devastates those places and traps residents in them. Often the communities are either adjacent to industrialized areas or see factories pop up around them. As Oliver demonstrated, a map of redlined Dallas neighborhoods overlaid on a map of Dallas industrial zones results in a large and non-accidental amount of overlap.
“That is grim,” Oliver said. “That you can live 15 fewer years depending on your zip code is the worst zip code news since the time they added those four bullshit digits at the end. I don’t know what those are and I am never going to learn them.”
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