Los Angeles Times claims that white people driving is bad for the environment
Christopher Tremoglie
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It’s been a rough few weeks for white people.
First, there was the Rasmussen Reports poll showing that nearly half of all blacks aren’t sure if it is “OK to be white.” Next, there was ESPN’s show First Take, in which one of the panelists claimed the NBA was racist because it named a white guy, Serbian player Nikola Jokic, as its MVP two seasons in a row. Now, the Los Angeles Times has blamed white people’s driving for polluting the Southern California air of racial minorities. Because, of course, only whites’ cars pollute, right?
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The article cited a study from USC that revealed that, supposedly, people who drive are less exposed to air pollution than people who don’t. And, allegedly, more white people drive in the area than racial minorities. The author then asserted that this was somehow a form of systemic racism prevalent since the earliest days of Los Angeles.
“It may sound like a paradox, but it’s not,” the article reads. “It’s a function of the racism that shaped this city and its suburbs, and continues to influence our daily lives — and a stark reminder of the need for climate solutions that benefit everyone.”
The study relies on a recent trend in environmental science, seeped as it is in left-wing indoctrination. It claims that years ago, California’s highways were built in predominantly poor, minority communities to allegedly spare the wealthier, whiter neighborhoods from dealing with the inconveniences of high-traffic areas.
“Today, many residents of the county’s whiter, more affluent neighborhoods — who were often able to keep highways out of their own backyards — commute to work through lower-income Black and Latino neighborhoods bisected by the 10, 110, and 105 freeways and more,” the article reads.
Of all the possible reasons for where the highways were erected and why, the study’s authors and the journalists at the Los Angeles Times jumped to racism. Even though the socioeconomic demographics of neighborhoods regularly change over time, the authors insisted racism was the reason.
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The premise of the article is that all of these busy roads are going through non-white residential areas, which leads to greater pollution in minority areas and, subsequently, more health issues. But, while discussing two of Southern California’s busiest freeways, the 405 and 101, the article states this was “largely a function of geography.” The race of the area’s residents wasn’t a factor.
The Left will try to find anything they can to blame white people and insinuate that all problems are caused by them — as they like to put it, by “systemic racism.” Most of it is just speculation passed off as fact. This is the latest radical attempt to demonize the country and the white people who live in it. First, it was social issues; now, they have progressed to environmental science. These social justice parasites must find some way to infuse racism into everything, to reinforce left-wing narratives of a racist U.S. that is inhospitable to all non-white people. What would they do otherwise?