“Can you measure trees — part of that data that you are referring to, [and it’s an issue of] EJ, environmental justice — that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhoods where people live?” Her comments led to online ridicule and the hashtag “Black Trees Matter”.<ref>https://theblacksphere.net/2021/11/kamala-harris-sees-racism-in-trees/</ref> | “Can you measure trees — part of that data that you are referring to, [and it’s an issue of] EJ, environmental justice — that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhoods where people live?” Her comments led to online ridicule and the hashtag “Black Trees Matter”.<ref>https://theblacksphere.net/2021/11/kamala-harris-sees-racism-in-trees/</ref> |