Blog # 10: "WHERE THE WHALE BE AT?: The place of Race & Racism in the Discussion of Environmentalism."

The writer of this interesting article Terry J. Cole, states a very important question: "Why should people of color be concerned about the environment?, he also give us a list of facts we need to consider to understand importance and complexity of the situation. As example, Lead poisoning, abandoned waste sites (brown-fields) located most of the time in or near public schools,  housing units of People of color, or Latino Americans communities; is not good to ignore that Seventy-one percent of African Americans live in counties that violate federal air pollution standards as opposed to 58 percent of White Americans.  And as if this is not enough, recent studies suggest that a young person's "lead burden" is linked with delinquency, lower IQ, and lower graduation rates.

After reading this article, I think that as part of the affected communities we should try to get to mainly understand and try to be aware about contamination and environment. We should not forget that we have an obligation to argue not just in favor of the environment but in our future generation communities favor too.
How can it be possible that in one of the most highly developed nations still exist social disparity even speaking about environment. It sounds crazy but also speaking about park space there is a big difference between the African American neighborhoods and the predominantly White neighborhoods accessibility.

In fact not only the health issue but there is a  high impact due to either African American's vulnerability to some diseases as: Cancer, stroke, AIDS, diabetes, pneumonia and influenza, chronic pulmonary disease, heart disease, and infant mortality; or because as The American Medical Association have noted in several reports that People of Color usually receive outdated or less aggressive treatment for medical disorders than Whites. How they do dare? How after knowing that Hamilton Naki was an African American surgeon and professor involved in the first human to human successful  heart transplant in Mississippi.  Intelligence, Beauty,  Education, Nutrition, Love and Respect, in essence Human Rights are not for the exclusive use of Whites. Lets do the difference, lets take the time to do educate and advice the children of today about never forget to be respectful of human beings and Mother Nature.