John Henrik Clarke Quotes
Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.
John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk. Directed by Saint Clair Bourne, Blacken Vision, 1996.
Freedom Industries, which makes chemicals for the mining industry, polluted the water supply of the entire 9 county region in WV when the 40,000 gallon tank that was supposedly safe as a holding tank for dangerous chemicals gave way and the chemicals were not then stopped or contained as they were supposed to have been by the containment grading and landscaping. The chemicals flowed down hill to the river which in turn polluted the entire water supply of Charleston, West Virginia and the 9 surrounding counties.
The Ministry of Health had conducted inspections of Lebanese Restaurants, rarely done in the past, and found many with traces of human and animal feces in the food. Typically bribes would be paid to the inspectors but a new reform minister made honest inspections a high priority. Then when he made the results public and newspapers like this carried the message, most of the other government ministers were very upset as it held the country up to ridicule and greatly threatened the international reputation of the country for the finest food in the Middle East, and might further harm the Tourist business which their self-inflicted civil war had already damaged in the latter part of the 20th century and by the militarized standoff that had evolved since. See {642413} for the Health Minister’s statement triggering this headline.
John Henrik Clarke was an American historian, professor, and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
