This is my first diary but I'm shaking mad about this incident I saw on TV this morning. A tank owned by Brenntag Stinnes Logistics leaked dangerous chemicals in Atlanta, Georgia yesterday and forced the evacuation of thousands of people. Now this sort of thing happened not too long ago in a white, middle-class neighborhood in the Dayton, Oh area where I am from. These people were given hotel rooms to sleep in and money for food from the company at fault.
The Atlanta incident happened in an African American neighborhood. Guess where these people were evacuated to? A shelter. Not only that, they were forced to wait in the cold, in the middle of the night, some with infant children, for MARTA buses to transport them to these shelters. Below is the letter I wrote to Brenntag Stinnes Logistics. I cc'd the ACLU and NAACP. What else can we do to let these people know this will not be tolerated?