This story first appeared at ProPublica and Mountain State Spotlight. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.
Sadly, this narrative goes back to times before the first Reconstruction. Blacks, and other marginalized, disenfranchised citizens, were physically re-located to poor lands, dangerous areas, and sites like toxic manufacturing areas that whites don’t want to be. In the end this is another form of Black and Native American suppression.
Here’s how:
Generation after generation after generation unless and until we forever render them completely powerless and subjugate them without mercy. Letting them hide underground is not good enough anymore. They must be rooted out and rendered inert or it will never be over. We need to stop pretending we can live in harmony with such people, such a cancer on society.
Yes Abbot Alaric… 
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius!
As others are discussing in other threads, we do ourselves no favours by becoming like them. Your rhetoric is no different that what we’d find in a Fox News comment thread…
And because the land was cheaper because black folk lived there, or black folk went to live there because land was cheaper.
I seem to remember something in the news lately about how systematic racism. 
But this can’t be it, can it? 
The mind boggles.
But, notably, Manchin proposed none of the things that Nixon and other vocal critics of the Institute plant really wanted: new limits on the storage and use of toxic chemicals, or additional enforcement aimed at ensuring plants operated safely and reduced pollution. The approach was in keeping with his more collaborative approach to government regulation. “Rather than going out with a ball bat and cease-and-desist orders and fines, I’d rather you spend the money to fix what’s wrong,” Manchin said during a speech to the West Virginia Coal Association in 2008.
And in Africa black people are guinea pigs for Big Pharma. It’s like dog put them on earth to be effed over.
Same thing in Richmond, California… where it turns out the police have more attack dog incidents resulting in injuries than any other city in the US per capita… 
The most powerful weapon we have is education and exposure to new ideas and experiences. People find it a lot harder to ignore “people” who are actually people they know.
Driving people, even hateful people, to the margins or underground just encourages additional generational resentments and perpetuates the problems.
Not saying that it doesn’t happen, but the author cherry-picked his example. The Chemical Valley in the Kanawha river valley starts in the West, with the city of Nitro (94% white), the location of the notorious Fike Chemical Superfund site and ends to the East of Charleston, with the town of Belle (97% white) which butts up against the DuPont Chemical plant. Roughly in the middle is the City of South Charleston (97% white) which used to have a major concentration of chemical plants. A more correct observation is that communities around industrial sites are going to be poor or working class.
My father, a union machinist, and uncle both retired from that plant and were proud Carbiders until the day they died. The sad fact is that in our global economy, if regulation gets too costly, these plants can and will move. The chemical industry in WV is a hollow shell of what it once was and I would bet that most of us who remember what the Chemical Valley was back in the 70’s would rather have that now instead of the sad, crumbling Pillbilly valley that it is today.
Something else to think about, WV voted sold Democratic from 1932 to 2000. (minus McGovern). The Democratic Party made a big mistake when they didn’t fight like hell for the Unions in the 70’s and 80’s.
As always the relentless racialism serves only to obscure the real dynamic: poor people pay the cost of rapacious capitalism. Class-based organizing is necessary; fixating on race only divides the working class.
Capital has been using race to split the proletariat for three centuries and Americans fall for it every time.
I agree with the diagnosis, but how do we treat it? Dividing the 99% by race has been very effective. Whites see any change as a zero sum game and minorites have well earned distrust of white organizing efforts.