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Racism Impact

3. Racism:
The Nuclear Power Industry creates a focus on minority discrimination, rejecting racist practices in favor of a more inclusive community.

Nuclear Energy Institute 11

(“Nuclear Industry Reaches Out to Minorities”, Nuclear Energy Institute, Resources and Stats, January 2011, http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/publicationsandmedia/insight/insightjanuary2011/nuclear-industry-reaches-out-to-minorities/)///AW
January 2011—Given the extended operation of America’s nuclear power plants and the construction of new reactors, there are broad opportunities for minority businesses and employees in the nuclear energy industry, executives of electric utilities told leaders representing scores of African-American and Hispanic organizations. The Clean and Safe Energy (CASEnergy) Coalition recently invited nearly 50 leaders from minority academic institutions, leadership and civic organizations, and businesses to participate in a roundtable with industry and labor leaders. The discussion centered on work force development, educational partnerships and supplier opportunities for minority communities and businesses. Participants included the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the United Negro College Fund and the National Hispanic Environmental Council. AFL-CIO and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers executives joined those from AREVA, Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, Dominion, DTE Energy, Exelon, Progress Energy and Southern Nuclear Operating Co. at the recent discussions. Elizabeth Shuler, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, stressed the possibilities in nuclear plant construction and operation. “Growth in the nuclear energy sector is good for jobs and good for the economy,” she said. “Each new plant creates as many as 2,400 jobs during construction as well as hundreds of jobs on the operations side. Working people in every community should look toward the growth of the nuclear sector to take advantage of the jobs created,” Shuler added. The time to get minorities engaged comes early, suggested Maudine Cooper, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Washington [D.C.] Urban League. She said it is important to work with students as early as middle school. “Once a child gets out of middle school,” she said, “you can’t talk to them about being an engineer.” Phrantceena Halres, who runs the first minority woman-owned security firm in the country, told the group how the opportunity arose in 2001 to turn her temporary staffing agency into a nuclear security firm that now provides security officers to Duke Energy for its nuclear power plants. “Over eight years, we managed to create and innovate a model for this industry—nuclear security—that works,” she said. Halres subsequently created the Nuclear Protection Academy, a training school for nuclear security officers. There are opportunities, Halres said, for small businesses to provide services as the nuclear energy industry begins to build new plants and to “create well-paying jobs in the rural areas” where many nuclear energy plants are located. Pam Collins, supply chain director at Southern Nuclear Operating Co., which is building two reactors at Plant Vogtle in Georgia, provided a practical example of jobs created by the industry. “More than 1,500 people are already at work at the state’s largest construction project ever,” Collins said of the Vogtle project. ”At peak construction, about 3,500 jobs will be created, along with up to 800 full-time positions once the reactors are producing electricity.” Constellation Energy Nuclear Group President and CEO Brew Barron said that all parties must make new commitments to engage with one another—beginning with individuals and extending to businesses, energy companies and vendors. The CASEnergy Coalition says this event will lead to a dialogue between the nuclear energy industry and minority communities, identifying programs to help guide talent into nuclear energy education, career or business opportunities. “It is important to talk about the numerous employment opportunities available in the energy sector, especially in nuclear energy,” said CASEnergy Coalition Co-Chair Christine Todd Whitman. “Expansion within the nuclear sector is creating thousands of U.S. jobs that cannot be shipped overseas.” Whitman continued: “These jobs are permanent and well-paying, with training programs that are preparing the next-generation work force in many disciplines. Clearly, there is an increasing need for long-term partnerships between business, labor and minority groups to best leverage these job opportunities.”
Side- constraint: Racism is the ultimate precursor to violence- it makes possible constant state of war

Mendieta 02—Assistant Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco

(Eduardo, “To Make Live and to Let Die: Foucault on Racism”, APA Central Division Meentif, Chicago, April 25, 2002)

This is where racism intervenes, not from without, exogenously, but from within, constitutively. For the emergence of biopower as the form of a new form of political rationality, entails the inscription within the very logic of the modern state the logic of racism. For racism grants, and here I am quoting: “the conditions for the acceptability of putting to death in a society of normalization. Where there is a society of normalization, where there is a power that is, in all of its surface and in first instance, and first line, a bio-power, racism is indispensable as a condition to be able to put to death someone, in order to be able to put to death others. The homicidal [meurtrière] function of the state, to the degree that the state functions on the modality of bio-power, can only be assured by racism “(Foucault 1997, 227) To use the formulations from his 1982 lecture “The Political Technology of Individuals” –which incidentally, echo his 1979 Tanner Lectures –the power of the state after the 18th century, a power which is enacted through the police, and is enacted over the population, is a power over living beings, and as such it is a biopolitics. And, to quote more directly, “since the population is nothing more than what the state takes care of for its own sake, of course, the state is entitled to slaughter it, if necessary. So the reverse of biopolitics is thanatopolitics.” (Foucault 2000, 416). Racism, is the thanatopolitics of the biopolitics of the total state. They are two sides of one same political technology, one same political rationality: the management of life, the life of a population, the tending to the continuum of life of a people. And with the inscription of racism within the state of biopower, the long history of war that Foucault has been telling in these dazzling lectures has made a new turn: the war of peoples, a war against invaders, imperials colonizers, which turned into a war of races, to then turn into a war of classes, has now turned into the war of a race, a biological unit, against its polluters and threats. Racism is the means by which bourgeois political power, biopower, re-kindles the fires of war within civil society. Racism normalizes and medicalizes war. Racism makes war the permanent condition of society, while at the same time masking its weapons of death and torture. As I wrote somewhere else, racism banalizes genocide by making quotidian the lynching of suspect threats to the health of the social body. Racism makes the killing of the other, of others, an everyday occurrence by internalizing and normalizing the war of society against its enemies. To protect society entails we be ready to kill its threats, its foes, and if we understand society as a unity of life, as a continuum of the living, then these threat and foes are biological in nature.