what we found was one hundred percent of all the city-owned landfills were located in black neighborhoods…. Six out of eight of the city-owned incinerators were in black neighborhoods. And three out of four of the private-owned landfills were in black neighborhoods. From the thirties up ’til 1978, eighty-two percent of all the garbage, waste, was dumped in predominantly black neighborhoods, even though blacks only made up twenty-five percent of the population.” During the same period, he pointed out, “all of the city council members were white.”
