Environmental Racism In America

Environmental racism is a major issue in most places around the world. People treat others very bad just to make money by building oil refineries which pollute the areas. They pollute the areas where they're mostly poor black people living.In addition, environmental racism is when a specific group in a gets treated differently from others in a negative way. In most places the whites are the one in control of most things and got all the money to do work with.However,they prefer to make themselves and their area better than going out there helping others. Racism in general is a big issue, but now its traveling in communities and affecting multiple group of people. For example in the article it stat "asthma prevalence in the U.S is significantly higher in minority and low income populations than in the general …show more content…
The diseases and illness are mostly in black environment and black individuals get sick very often. Warren country was one of the poorest countries in the state, and had the highest percentage of black residents. Due to a large amount of black people it’s the poorest country because nobody is willing to help the black residents. As a black man I would feel threatened if I got treated in such unsatisfactory way. All the black communities are very overpopulated and can barely afford certain stuff.In page 1 the author stated "poverty rates in these neighborhoods are 1.5 times higher than elsewhere". The fact that they don’t get help from anywhere they fall to a breakpoint where they can no longer help themselves. In addition, environmental racism is affecting babies, elders and animals that live in the areas. Furthermore, "about 56% of the nine million Americans who