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- The people of South Memphis stand to lose the land that their families have lived on for centuries to a new pipeline. The Byhalia Connection is set to be built above the Memphis aquifer and to snake through historically Black neighborhoods. VICE News Tonight goes to South Memphis to meet the people fighting for their future.
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Awww man my heart. When she said her mom worked every day of her life for what they have, that got me.
My mother was the same way
@Duante Wrong Toledo Wtf are you talking about? This is the hardest working least paid generation in modern American history. 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and it’s not uncommon for people to work 2-3 jobs just to survive. Way to be out of touch though and form your opinions based on stereotypes and anecdotes.
@@mangosaurusrex3416 What?
He’s saying young people are busting their asses just as much for even less money (in terms of purchases power) than most boomers had to work. You used to be able to afford a house and car off one persons salary, now you need 3 jobs or get lucky and marry into money. So when you imply they don’t make mommas like that anymore you’re 100% wrong and you need to start looking around and noticing the young laborers that are holding this county up by their shoulders. Not all kids are spoiled and get to go to college.
Me too
“It is only when you devalue the people of a place that you are willing to risk their drinking water” Damn!!!!!!!!!! Facts.
@Richard Dangles crypto is another fake scam, to hell with that waste of time and energy for a game built on speculation from rich idiots.
Fr
...as proven by what happened in Flint, Michigan and the fracking in other parts of America.
You smokin crack
True my brother
These corporations are like vultures: ready to snatch-up anything You got and leave your bones in a ditch.
They'll use your bones for glue and then waste it on a failed skyscraper
Yeah and they also control the democracy of this country. There are no public representatives who answer to the peope. They answer to the lobbyists and the corporations ONLY.
These “ Corporations” put food on your table. Instead of hating why don’t you start loving? Isn’t that the way for hippies like yourself?
@@memyselfandi6303 You get cancelled for being subscribed to Milo and Kanye lmfao Go back to playing video-games and leave important matters to be discussed by adults.
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It really breaks my heart that a piece of natural history is being replaced with something else that is just bad for our environment. I support you, guys, wholeheartedly!
Exactly
Heartbreaking it is, but it’s worth mentioning that pipelines are actually more environmentally friendly compared to other forms of oil transportation.
What is being replaced?
@@trentmiller3963 everything single piece of Memphis country
The woman with the property her mother bought, broke my heart. She is helpless in this situation. Completely. And it ain’t right.
That young man is bridging the gap between a by gone era and the people of today!!! He is definitely a treasure. I hope that they realize what a fighter he has become and what a fight he has on his hands!!!
When he started crying I lost it. He felt heard and he (and the community) deserve that, not only that but they deserve to be protected and keep their land. It's theirs.
When Justin and his brothers were crying and celebrating the win, it gave me goosebumps and made me tear up! Proud of you young men! keep up the good fight!
BLACK LIVES MATTER
No-one wants a pipeline, busy road or rail line near their house.
At the same time, many want the benefits of such infrastructure.
When the choice is always near your house then it's a real problem
There is no accountability with these companies. If they destroy everything the people that live there are left to foot the bill. Everybody knows this. No one trusts them anymore.
@Richard Dangles stop trying to scam people here.
Suing a man that dont wany to sell his property. Thats how low you can get in big buissness
Not yet, I know of situations where people are killed for the land.
@King Charles omg! Please send a reference so I can learn more. Thanks
@King Charles @C B
So I just learned about his case. Biden didn’t ‘do’ anything 😒 . He just let the chips fall where they may. The family had been fighting since the Bush Presidency and simply lost the case just now, when Biden is the President. They are two VERY DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT things. He probably just didn’t have time to look at the case. He’s been busy with COVID and cleaning up all the messes Trump made.
@@RojaJaneman Biden seizes the land, yet you blame it on trump. I swear, some of you people are so obsessed with him, you probably see him in your sleep too 😂
@@DeJulius_Caesar
He simply let the court case continue. The court decided to seize the land. Because..u know as a president he has myriad of other, more pressing matters to attend to.
The case has been going on for almost two decades. Seizing, as u put it, implies an intervention of a sort on his part. Which is exactly the opposite of what has taken place. So u see sir, u r, most appallingly incorrect.
ofc they never responded for comment.
instead of a direct route they'd rather go through poorer communities smh
God bless you guys stay Memphis strong.
The longer the pipeline the more chances for leaks. Leaks are a safety issue. Pipeline should be shortest as possible if at all.
There is some pristine water under there, too.
The shortest possible route runs through the wealthy white neighborhoods of Collierville and Germantown.
@@mikehughes8023 like the one white wealthy neighborhood BLM co-founder bought 4 mansions in? Stop making it about color.
@@KotleKettle It's just facts.
@@mikehughes8023 maybe you shouldn’t generalize neighborhoods by the people’s skin color who live there. I’m doing so you make it seem as if the people in that neighborhood conspired against the poor neighborhood. It’s just a simple facts that the land will be cheaper in the poor part of town. Companies are usually not racist.
I am so tired of these companies. I am sickened by their cold hardened hearts. I am struck with sorrow for all the families that have to deal with this.
Yeah I'm hoping 90% of the landmass of the planet gets wiped out by something natural like a flood or anything so we can start over. Nothing else will ever make the drastic change we need.
@@n00dles79 I just want everyone to learn from their mistakes, as to not repeat history but it is looking like a vast amount of people don't even want to look at the facts and those that do don't actually care. Sadly, the stone age is looking nicer and nicer by the day.
It’s fake news
They are making sure that the 0 0/0 that we have we don't have but they are going to have not coffee in there cup slowly but surely.
They are making sure that the 0 0/0 that we have we don't have but they are going to have not coffee in there cup slowly but surely.
7:31 got me in tears, I felt so strongly for her. It hurts to hear and see this community fighting a problem that shouldn't be a problem they have to face in the first place. This needs to stop not only in this community but in every community faced with these problems.
Yeah.. Now imagine it ain't just an oil company, but many other corporations and you basicly get American "foreign policy". Self fulfiling prophecy of make industries making war things, wars won, but all those profits gone, now we just make war again.. And it ain't just militery industrial complex, same for logistics, building corporations, waste disposal, recycling, etc.. i always find it funny when Americans say we should stop giving money to Africa, middle East, Asia and help our own.
Not knowing that for every dollar given or better said invested, usually at least 3 or more are expected back.
I've been to Memphis.God bless people of Memphis, especially black community
Love from India
So proud of you young man! God has the last word! God Bless you!
@Richard Dangles stop
Richard Dingus
@Richard Dangles idk , maybe promoting yourself EVERYWHERE in the comments
? People like you are popping up everywhere on videos and it's genuinely annoying.
8:14 that hurts to see her in so much pain 😢
Her mom worked all her life to pass this down and the government trying to take it without any regard for her family.
how the hell your gonna sue someone for their own land
Easy. POC ☑️ less affluent ☑️ and it’s just business as usual in America
@@TheEd1225 true especially when it comes to oil lol
Oh it happens all the time. Eminent domain goes back to 1876.
They're aren't taking land. They'll be given money for letting the pipeline go through. Nobody is losing any land over something that is buried in the ground. This video is obvious propaganda and lies.
Government can use eminent domain,in a land owner mind they own that land but once you die off or don't will your land to someone it will go to the state so in reality you don't own the land.in england it is the same way once you die off no family members the land go back to the queen of england
No one should have to give up their land or sacrifice their health because a corporation wants to exploit government sanctioned theft (aka eminent domain). I hope these guys win!
Native Americans in Standing Rock, now Blacks in Memphis. How about running Pipelines through some White neighborhoods for a change?😏
As a white person...🤐. But really, make it as short as possible and try to go along highways and other roads.
@Leftie Snowflake Where Alternative Facts World?
They do, i know of an old couple that got $20k plus royalties to go through a little chunk of land. Easy sell
How about no more oil pipelines. It's a such an outdated energy source. We're in 2021, how about investing in green energy instead
@@sudovirus3285 yes, we need nuclear power plants, cheaper power means poor people pay less
When a company gives their word. They have no obligation to hold it. If they were contractually obligated or face heavy fines. They’ll go somewhere else.
My hometown is having the same issue from an Australian housing company. They're trying to build upscale apartments on the river and hiking trail land that was purposefully marked as farmland for over 50 years to stop it from being developed on when the farming lands started becoming a town and eventually a city. The company is trying to say that it won't develop apartments or anything on the land and that they're just trying to sue the city for the land so they can "take care of it better and only build a few apartments" 🙄 we already had an issue with the air force letting old jet fuel massively leak into the drinking water and had to deal with the surrounding suburbs buying up land to run their sewage through the area, so ya, no one believes that the housing company will just randomly out of the kindness of their hearts just leave the land as is
This gave me goosebumps all over 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Great piece, Vice!!!! These people deserve all the publicity and help we can give! ❤️
That is beautiful land. Fight with all your might. Best of luck to you.
“Why don't they pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Well we're trying!”
Are they though?
While every other group get Reparations and handouts like what Joe Biden just gave Asians and Native Americans
I hope the Memphis community listens to that young man. Something similar happened in my hometown in New Jersey when I was younger. The city council sold everything to industrial and oil companies near where most of my family members lived. Those that didn't move out have all kinds of health problems and especially cancer like the statistics that were quoted in the middle of the video. This young man is trying to save lives and families. God bless.
Central New Jersey here.... 💖
Lived in Memphis for 13 yrs, love this town more then my racist hometown, but it's extremely hard for some reason to get people together in Memphis to protest anything, good luck to these people, wish I was there to help.
Idk dog you see the blm protests in Memphis they were talking about it on national news.
@@bishopewilson4496 no, I have been out of Memphis for 5 yrs, but if the people got together that's great, love it, glad that part has changed, unity is stronger then singular.
You can't sue someone over their own land(I don't know how this is even possible). And why specifically pass the pipeline there? Knowing these folk your water is dirty, more chemicals in the air, crime, etc.
Probably thinking people would just move especially if things got bad enough
Thank you for making this and giving my fellow Memphians a voice 🙏🙏 I didn’t know what was going on in my own hometown.
Happy to be watching this on Earth Day! 🌎 Your community deserves to be protected from these exploitative companies. Congratulations on winning this battle. Prayers and Godspeed for your progress through the coming hurdles. 💜🌎✊
I'm watching this on MLK Day 💖
My city. 💙 We must stop the construction of the byhalia pipeline!
Memphis native here! Fight and Fight family!!
If we stand together we all can be successful.
We all know what happen in the matter of the Dakota pipeline ...good luck though 🙏
I was just thinking that
Yea but those people were indians do you see anywhere on signs or shirts "indian lifes matter" no you dont
@@americansniper1641 Indian life’s never matters to the American .. they’re only needed for IT companies
What happend?
@@olypics1 😂😂😂
Justin Pearson has modelled himself around Obama. Look at the hand movements, his annunciations, his punctuation. This is were we truly see the importance of real black role models in society.
Idk if it's true but I definitely noticed the similarities in their intonation
I said the same thing his voice and speech
I can understand the sentiment but it is pretty disparaging when educated Black men are compared to Obama as if he is this monolith. There are more Black role models than Obama and Justin’s tendencies aren’t limited to Obama’s mannerisms.
@@ZahraSabir I can only speak on my comment and say that I made no such overarching claim about educated Black men. I said that one man's intonation while public speaking sounded similar to Obama's who is a world renowned orator with a distinct rhetorical style. Watching good public speakers is a actually a known way to improve your own public speaking skills so it wouldn't be surprising at all if he did in fact model his rhetorical style after Obama's.
@@themessengacross1581 yeah it's hella fake
As a poor white dude from a rural area that giant companies have felt like they can bully and push around, this was a fantastic story. brb got something in my eyes lol
@Masada Taseti How tf he going to do that? Also if that were too happen the enitre world economy would collapse sadly.
@HolyBlack Beings you just went completely left with that... be quiet and stop sitting around waiting to be babied.
The term “pull themselves up by their bootstraps “ was originally used to mean something that could not possibly be done! Only in America could they use it to mean the opposite.
What an extremely smart dude Justin is, respect to him putting in the work against the pipeline.
Praying for all the land owners & people of Memphis 🙏🏽 these companies are disgusting ‼️ don’t give them anything
Watching from Tokyo...good luck Justin ,.keep it up sir
"..and you know how the story ends, Goliath looses"😄 That's the sprit!
We will fight with you. Just like Standing Rock....Water is Life!!!
🙇 that's right young man stand up to your community.
How can we help?
Mr. Clyde Robinson sounds like a wonderful person and he reminds me of an old friend.
This happens all over rural America. An agency of the state tried to condemn and run my grandpa out of his home in rural Florida in the 90’s. He refused to sell and ended up winning in the end, he died on his property a happy old man.
This is my city! We are fighting this pipeline!
best of luck to these people it’s disgusting how companies think they can have anything they want. keep fighting on!
Great video, thank you.
youtube racists be like "black people? dislike"
that’s me
@@squidwardsjuul6269 jealousy. That's you too🤣🤣
@@heartofbrowardcounty142 who am i jealous of exactly? blacks? or the media?
@@squidwardsjuul6269 well only you would know right!? Answer the question toya self ya jealousy wuss
@King Charles saltin criki
Good job bro 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 keep fighting god bless
Bring the truth to light ! Don’t give up guys!
May you all succeed.
Vice has done it again!!! 💪🏿🙌🏾💪🏿 Never forget your voice matters. 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
When the black man had nothing to his name, they said, they want his skin (slavery). But when the black man had little bit of skin in the game, they want all of what he is worth! This is one fucked up place to live in...
Nothing to do with race. Stop it. Enough of these cheap, divisive dog whistles. You’re manufacturing your own narrative and getting outraged by your very own creation. This has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with money and their ability to fight back. They would be treated precisely the same had they been purple with green spots or translucent. This isn’t about colour. This constant race bating is starting to look like mental illness. Just be a good person and you’ll be treated accordingly.
@@ivareskesner2019 You're the one who clearly doesn't understand the history at play here. What's wrong with your cognition to not understand what was discussed in the video? Did you grow up with the standard american history class? Because if so, you've been propagandized and need to learn the real history of this country.
@@ivareskesner2019 Mr. Kesner, my comment might have come out of outrage in me seeing my fellow men and women treated wrongly, but not to bring about division. We all should be standing against mediocrity and injustices being perpetrated against our fellow citizens and neighbors, be it happening any where on this planet. I wish, I was manufacturing this. But I'm not. The system that is supposed have protect it's citizen from harm has failed them consecutively for many generations, and this shakes me to my core of what makes me human. And Mr. Kesner, I hope and pray you understand when you say "this has nothing to do with race". From the inception of this country, it had all to do with race, subjugation of the weak, and money.
@@ivareskesner2019 Vice & other major “news” will ONLY show the POC “struggle” GOD forbid they show the truth & the fact that this happens to EVERYONE regardless of color
I am watching from Kalam Valley.
💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 keep fighting!
Vice, you should show links to support these guys!!
This goes to show that we Blacks can do it when we stick together, YOU all are in my thoughts and prayers, God bless those with little faith and help those who help themselves.
How the hell is it legal to sue using imminent domain for something that's not theirs. Never been theirs. That's bull!
The government has taken millions of acres from us Brownskin natives.
Absolutely they have, but our government along with Canada under rule of the King and Queen of England took an entire continent from the American Indian. The European white man has done this around the globe. My people who are European white people were enslaved for a thousand years. So not all the white men did this, but their were a hell of a lot of them. God bless those in Memphis our prayers are with you.
Amazing work!
The spirit of the people in thia community is beautiful and fierce. ✊🏽
The opening is the best. Talking about a garden.
I bet if all those people happened to get armed up real quick, these companies might be reminded whose property they are trying to take.
Yea they're not taking property to put a pipeline that goes under the ground. How ridiculous.
1:51 🤬
Thank goodness for Vice.
Beautiful story, Stay strong!
Great video
I'm glad there water is safe!
This makes me very happy, I wish you many more victories!
The fact that eminent domain exists is fucking ludicrous.
Nope, it is exactly how the government and rich want it.
Apparently the company said it is pausing the project!
Until the media attention is off them then it’s back to the fuckery.
fight on, love memphis
Thanks for letting us know the race of the people, VICE.
American oil companies treat oil better than humans all the time.
Damn hearing the woman talk about her mother and work ethic was heartbreaking,
wow this broke my heart
Nice video!! Very engaging from beginning to end. Nevertheless, businesses and investment are the easiest way to make money irrespective of which party makes it to the oval office.
Depending on one stream of income had never made any millionaire and earning check don't put you on forbes
Investing in crypto now should be in every wise individuals list, in some months time you'll be ecstatic with the decision you made today.
I totally agree with that
Crypto is the new gold
I tried investing once but withdrew due to the fluctuations in price
He really sounded like Obama
No surprise as to why the more direct route is not being considered. 😑
It's because it would be more expensive & affect far more people.
@@davidz2808 no it’s because they don’t want to disturb the whites they made that very clear.
@@nottodaylilbaldhead From a logical sense it makes sense to not build there. Greater population density and it would affect more people and affect the various other underground pipes. Unfortunately the alternative is to build in coincidentally black neighbourhoods
@@omarrwilliams9209 or option c, fucking off.
@@omarrwilliams9209 or option c, fucking off.
Good stuff to see
Godspeed brother
These are the type of companies we really need to boycott against instead of getting mad at Home depot for staying in they lane!!
I love Vice News. Keep sticking it to the man! ;)
My city! I always held out hope that this would get more mainstream coverage finally people can see what we’re dealing with. Boxtown is historic in terms of black history! So many people in South Memphis are already struggling, protect them!! This is exhausting we’re dealing with this AND gentrification is horrible right now! Yuppies and Developers are taking all of the affordable homes they are targeting other historically black areas buying the homes for cheap sometimes displacing folks then raising the rents on people. 😔
Great story
This isn't just happening in Memphis that's the sad part
The calvalry isnt coming and that young man realized it before anyone else. All the luck to him.
Thanks ViceTV! We appreciate you for helping us speak out against this pipeline cutting through our families land! I was raised there and my family has been there (home,business and land owners)for almost 100 yrs! #noBPL🛑☣️
Love and support for your cause from Canada.
Why has byhalia taken out lawsuits against landowners? As far as I can tell if a citizen owns their own property, it’s nobody else’s to take away from them...or did I miss something? These folks should countersue for intimidation.
The idea that a corporation can claim immanent domain is a huge problem.
I live in a super clean town on the surface, but what is done to the aquifer is insane because people believe the earth is magic with their waste.
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Make sure they xray all the welds and force the welders to cut out any voids, inclusions, lack of fusion, etc. Have someone there when they hydrotest to make sure they do it right. Make sure local PHMSA checks it out.
I'd say if they do it right and keep up with maintenance it should minimize risk, but they could be one of the companies who would rather take the fine than do the maintenance.
The company that was slated to make the keystone xl pipeline made a previous pipeline that slow leaked over 800 million gallons of oil into the soil over the course of 3 years. These companies also own pipelines that have leaked millions of gallons of oil. They don't do anything once it leaks. There is zero accountability. So why should they trust anything they say?
I live in Memphis. This is unconscionable.🤬
Stay strong !
FYI: You cant force eminent domain for private companies. Its only in war time.
Oh, think again. Kelo v. City of New London changed that.
@@chrismorgan283 Please cite your federal case law.
@@ChosenOne6666 Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005)
Considering that the United States has only known 17 years of peace in its entire history, kind of a moot point isn't it? Put some context into what you say
@@ReignCharger You mean WWII was America fault? REALLY. WOW! IM MUST BE STUPID!
Praying for Memphis, GOD sees all and knows, GOD has the final say!
this is a very heavy story. when they voted to protect the water I just about cried. I feel for these folk. I’m happy for the man. Keep fighting my dude
I live in memphis and i didn't even know about this
I've always hated imminent domain. I understand why the Founders incorporated it into our Constitution but as a capitalist, it's simply illogical. When you FORCE someone to sell their land, it's not a transaction, it's theft. I'd love to see the clause repealed.