Environmental racism is something that affects many people around the world mostly some that live in low income neighborhoods like Blacks, Hispanics, and a few others. The people in specific though are the ones that live in Black Harlem neighborhoods Polk County’s Mulberry.
One of the landmarks that went through environmental justice movement was Warren County, North Carolina. Warren County was a very poor county in the state, and had a very high percentage of black residents; Afton, the community chosen for the landfill was over 84 percent black. Despite their low incomes, an exceptionally large percentage of residents in this area owned their own homes. “Separate residential limits or districts for white and negro residents.” U.S. minorities have both placed in separate areas for along time…”.
Factory owners that make and these factories make fortunes from them and would never put them in their own neighborhoods; they rather put them in minority areas causing “asthma prevalence in the U.S. is significantly higher in minority and low-income populations…” But as if that wasn’t enough they also dump trash in those communities too “garbage transfer station nobody …show more content…
Despite the civil right movement of the 1960s the issue of environmental racism has popped up often including the 1990s and the present. This has been going on for quite some time “for 100 years” to be exact. There are a lot of people who live in low income communities that have spoken about the conditions they live in living around factories “can’t escape the fumes indoors either.” another comment was “nobody came to check on the health in north richmond.” These are just a few people in some areas that are being affected by environmental racism but it still can affect people all around the
One of the landmarks that went through environmental justice movement was Warren County, North Carolina. Warren County was a very poor county in the state, and had a very high percentage of black residents; Afton, the community chosen for the landfill was over 84 percent black. Despite their low incomes, an exceptionally large percentage of residents in this area owned their own homes. “Separate residential limits or districts for white and negro residents.” U.S. minorities have both placed in separate areas for along time…”.
Factory owners that make and these factories make fortunes from them and would never put them in their own neighborhoods; they rather put them in minority areas causing “asthma prevalence in the U.S. is significantly higher in minority and low-income populations…” But as if that wasn’t enough they also dump trash in those communities too “garbage transfer station nobody …show more content…
Despite the civil right movement of the 1960s the issue of environmental racism has popped up often including the 1990s and the present. This has been going on for quite some time “for 100 years” to be exact. There are a lot of people who live in low income communities that have spoken about the conditions they live in living around factories “can’t escape the fumes indoors either.” another comment was “nobody came to check on the health in north richmond.” These are just a few people in some areas that are being affected by environmental racism but it still can affect people all around the