![]() ![]() 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.īro, you do realize you don't need to live in a neighborhood based on the color of your skin, right?Īnd you do realize that black people own cars too, right?Ī bunch of them own nicer cars and bigger houses than me!Īmerica has had disparity with skin color, so know racism was probably a factor somewhere in building a few of these highways, but in my town, the freeways cut through the Polish Catholic and Dutch Reformed neighborhoods.īut here's what I really love about this article:Īs a white guy who's lived on L.A.'s Westside for most of my life, I've benefited from the region's sordid history as well. The logic is this: White people commute more, but all their pollution stays in the city, where larger numbers of ethnic minorities reside.īecause of this, these evil white commuters are literally choking out the POCs with their racist exhaust! ![]() I couldn't help but consider my own complicity while reading a new study from USC researchers, finding that Angelenos who drive more tend to be exposed to less air pollution - and Angelenos who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution. It's hard to be a satirist in clown world! ![]()
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