Heres how garbage works for most of us. We put it in cans around our house. Once a week we take those cans to the streets, and then the garbage man comes, puts it in his truck and drives it far, far away. But if you live here in chester, pennsylvania, they put that garbage in the back of a truck, and they take it right over there. And while theyre burning that garbage over there and making money, a lot of people in this Community Think theyre being made sick. So on this episode of united shades of america, were talking about toxic environments, manmade disasters. Here in chester, pennsylvania, and not that far away in philadelphia. Im done with this. Normally id just throw it away. But i feel bad. Maybe ill take it home and turn it into an art project. You know, kamau, its like im going to make you treat me like im an american. Oh, yeah. You understand me . I hear you. The same rules that you apply in other communities. Mmhmm. Why you think we want any less for our children or our fami
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toxic lead dust was unearthed. janet curtis is yet another parent who has had to figure out how to deal with lead poisoning. i tell parents now, pressure wash your steps, take off your shoes. just now i came in. i took my shoes off. oh, it s a shoeless house. no big deal. but here you wanted us and the crew to do that because it keeps the house free of whatever is out there. we re still asking people to take off their shoes instead of dealing with what s outside the door. the epa, the cdc, and the philly department of health did a study in the neighborhood. maybe a couple months later we got the soil results back and they were really high. and at that moment, i had a crawling kid, and of course our first reaction was to take her to the pediatrician and her blood level came back at 14. as she continued to grow, we recognized her speech was delayed. at 18 months, she had two words. so we took every service that was provided to us, nutrition counseling, behavior counseling, the spee