BP hires prison labor to clean up spill while coastal residents struggle

BP hires prison labor to clean up spill while coastal residents struggle
In a region where nine out of 10 residents are white, the cleanup workers are almost exclusively Black men. NAACP President Ben Jealous wrote to BP CEO Tony Hayward demanding to know why Black people were over-represented in “the most physically difficult, lowest paying jobs, with the most significant exposure to toxins.”
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