LA Times writer says ‘White’ drivers are ‘polluting the air’ breathed by LA’s ‘people of color’

[seafoam1 3,513]

The article complained of the residents of 'Whiter, more affluent neighborhoods' spreading pollution in 'Black and Latino neighborhoods'

LA Times writer Sammy Roth shared a piece claiming that many suffer an environmental form of racism thanks to White and affluent commuters in the Los Angeles area.

Roth described a study he had read claiming that it found, "[Los Angeles residents] who drive more tend to be exposed to less air pollution — and Angelenos who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution." He went on to say, "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." 

He recounted a conversation with USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.professor Geoff Boeing. 

"He told me it largely comes down to the shameful history of Los Angeles County’s low-income communities of color being torn apart to make way for freeways — a history that has been extensively documented by The Times," he wrote. "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 study itself is titled, "Local Inequities in the Relative Production of and Exposure to Vehicular Air Pollution in Los Angeles." The study’s abstract defines its findings in explicitly racial terms. 

"We find that, all else equal, tracts whose residents drive less are exposed to more air pollution, as are tracts with a less-White population. Commuters from majority-White tracts disproportionately drive through non-White tracts, compared to the inverse," the researchers wrote.

They went on to say, "Decades of racially-motivated freeway infrastructure planning and residential segregation shape today's disparities in who produces vehicular air pollution and who is exposed to it, but opportunities exist for urban planning and transport policy to mitigate this injustice."

He shared one particular map from the study and wrote, "The red areas are places in L.A. County where commuters tend to be whiter than people who live there; the blue areas are places where commuters tend to be less white than people who live there."

He later adds, "the map shows how residents of whiter, wealthier communities disproportionately drive to work through lower-income Latino and Black neighborhoods, spewing pollution. Residents of those neighborhoods can’t do much about it."

Solutions he suggested range from "ending the sale of most gasoline vehicles" to allowing more apartment construction in wealthier neighborhoods.

The study faced rebuke not only from Twitter personalities, but the Twitter's Birdwatch feature. 

As of the writing of this article, Twitter has a warning label attached to the Los Angeles Times' tweet of the article saying, "This claim is false. This assumption is based on research that those who drive more tend to be exposed to less air pollution while those who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution. L.A. population is 48.4% Hispanic/Latino, 28.1% White only (not Hispanic)."

Communications Director for the Claremont Institute Nick Short tweeted, "Congratulations to the author of this piece @Sammy_Roth. You have managed to write not only the most idiotic but racist piece of 2023!"

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/la-times-writer-white-drivers-polluting-air-breathed-las-people-color

[Dizkneelande 1,136]

This is who is controlling editorials for the LA Times. A do-nothing 28 year old billionaire self described “socialist”

 

[Voltaire 5,528]

White residents of LA county can be easily guilt shamed into paying for anything, so feel free to throw any accusation you want at them. They'll just flop over, beg for forgiveness, and open their wallets like they've been trained to do.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,340]

1 hour ago, Voltaire said:

White residents of LA county can be easily guilt shamed into paying for anything, so feel free to throw any accusation you want at them. They'll just flop over, beg for forgiveness, and open their wallets like they've been trained to do.

And once the new bolsheviks are done with them, they'll end up in the gulags -or dead- just like everyone else.  They will have outlived their usefulness to the cause and will no longer be necessary.

It's easier to take people's money and s*** when they're not there to defend it.

[Voltaire 5,528]

15 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

And once the new bolsheviks are done with them, they'll end up in the gulags -or dead- just like everyone else.  They will have outlived their usefulness to the cause and will no longer be necessary.

It's easier to take people's money and s*** when they're not there to defend it.

I love (well fully appreciate) the scene in Dr. Zhivago, when Yuri finally returns home from the war the Communists had kidnapped him to participate in.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,340]

8 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

I love (well fully appreciate) the scene in Dr. Zhivago, when Yuri finally returns home from the war the Communists had kidnapped him to participate in.

One of the greatest movies ever made. I love watching that movie even as a kid.

And yes, that is exactly what the new bolsheviks want to do.  

[Engorgeous George 2,332]

Tomorrows article by the same writer will be that tanning, particularly spray tanning, is cultural appropriation.  They will be seeking to cancel George Hamilton.

[Mike Hunt 318]

Tim is blowing carbon all over people of color?

[iam90sbaby 2,727]

We're bad people. They should stay away from us.

[Big Guy 1,430]

this is mostly true

and they should since they invented both Cars and Roads

and jobs for that matter

[Hardcore troubadour 16,042]

Any of these people ever look at a globe? Take out Canada, the US, Europe and Australia.  How’s it looking? 

[Dizkneelande 1,136]

Guys the left, legacy media and educational institutions are not destroying race relations in America.

NY Times - Can My Children Be Friends With White People

[seafoam1 3,513]

7 minutes ago, Dizkneelande said:

Guys the left, legacy media and educational institutions are not destroying race relations in America.

NY Times - Can My Children Be Friends With White People

The real question should be, why would white people want to be friends with your kids?

[Cdub100 3,996]

14 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Any of these people ever look at a globe? Take out Canada, the US, Europe and Australia.  How’s it looking? 

I like to play a game. Go to South Africa on google maps. Try and find a house that doesn't have high walls and barbwire around it.

I'm told this is "normal"

[Cdub100 3,996]

11 minutes ago, Dizkneelande said:

Guys the left, legacy media and educational institutions are not destroying race relations in America.

NY Times - Can My Children Be Friends With White People

Nope best to stay away from white people.

[League Champion 1,926]

It's a racist article. Black people don't have cars, they take the City Busses. 

[5-Points 3,838]

If only there were some place blacks and latinos could go to get far away from white people. 

 

[jerryskids 7,195]

1 hour ago, Mike Hunt said:

Tim is blowing carbon all over people of color?

No, he contracts with illegals to move garbage between the strip malls he manages.  It's kinda like Germany paying Russia to extract and refine all of that ugly fossil fuel and acting like they are helping the environment. 

 

[Cdub100 3,996]

Diversity is our strength.

[Engorgeous George 2,332]

1 hour ago, Cdub100 said:

I like to play a game. Go to South Africa on google maps. Try and find a house that doesn't have high walls and barbwire around it.

I'm told this is "normal"

Well razor wire and also broken glass mortared onto the top of the wall.  Also two dobermans inside the wall.  I pretty much guarantee the dobies are named Diablo and Sat`an.

[BLS 315]

I'm thinking Dilbert was right.

[DonS 3,330]

2 hours ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

One of the greatest movies ever made. I love watching that movie even as a kid.

And yes, that is exactly what the new bolsheviks want to do.  

I've never seen this movie, but that clip has me interested.  I need to figure out if it's streaming anywhere.

(as I'm typing this the banner ad covering half the form is about "black mental health" ) 

 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,340]

38 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

Diversity is our strength.

Says The New Bolsheviks.

[jerryskids 7,195]

Look at a map of LA -- as much as geography allows, they pretty much plopped a freeway every 5-10 miles going NS or EW like a big waffle grid.

Also pretty much everywhere, land right next to a freeway is rarely the choicest spot for residences.  This is a chicken and egg thing of course -- freeways tended to go where wealthier folks didn't live, and wealthier developments didn't spring up right on top of them after they were installed.

Throw that in the blender with a dash of "POC are poorer," and walla, racism!

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,340]

Just make sh#t up if you have no facts!  Propaganda for the cause!!! 

- The New Bolsheviks 

[The Real timschochet 7,559]

Thanks for posting this article. It represents two of my biggest disagreements with leftists: 

1. Inequities are not evil and don’t need to be fixed. What we want is for everyone to have the same opportunity to succeed. Not everybody does and that’s what we need to work on fixing. But we will never achieve equality of results and shouldn’t try. 
 

2. For something to be racist it has to be deliberate- it can’t just be some outcome you don’t like. Example: if most blacks have less money than other groups that’s not racist. If somebody is DELIBERATELY paying black people less money because they are black, that’s racist. Big difference but Marxists don’t see that. 

[The Real timschochet 7,559]

3 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Just make sh#t up if you have no facts!  Propaganda for the cause!!! 

- The New Bolsheviks 

yes they do this but I don’t think they do it more or less than other ideologies- including MAGA

[The Real timschochet 7,559]

9 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Says The New Bolsheviks.

Says most people. Diversity is a strength of American society. 

[jonmx 2,484]

2 hours ago, Mike Hunt said:

Tim is blowing carbon all over people of color?

I could not even imagine how much trauma this article brought upon him. 

[The Real timschochet 7,559]

Just now, jonmx said:

I could not even imagine how much trauma this article brought upon him. 

Trauma? I enjoyed reading the article. It’s absurd. 
 

Also- I don’t live or work in the city of Angels. 

[jonmx 2,484]

5 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Thanks for posting this article. It represents two of my biggest disagreements with leftists: 

1. Inequities are not evil and don’t need to be fixed. What we want is for everyone to have the same opportunity to succeed. Not everybody does and that’s what we need to work on fixing. But we will never achieve equality of results and shouldn’t try. 
 

2. For something to be racist it has to be deliberate- it can’t just be some outcome you don’t like. Example: if most blacks have less money than other groups that’s not racist. If somebody is DELIBERATELY paying black people less money because they are black, that’s racist. Big difference but Marxists don’t see that. 

You say this, but in couple of hours you will be contradicting this.  

[jonmx 2,484]

1 minute ago, The Real timschochet said:

Trauma? I enjoyed reading the article. It’s absurd. 
 

Also- I don’t live or work in the city of Angels. 

Close enough where your pollution is negatively impacting the people of color inside of LA. 

[The Real timschochet 7,559]

Just now, jonmx said:

You say this, but in couple of hours you will be contradicting this.  

When have I ever contradicted it? Those are some of my core beliefs. 

[Old School 360]

FFS

[RLLD 4,282]

Good News/Bad News.....

Maybe.....they are running out of these pretend-racism things....

[League Champion 1,926]

9 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Good News/Bad News.....

Maybe.....they are running out of these pretend-racism things....

I doubt it, the Dems will just develop new deflection tactics. It's funny how they dream all this crap, isn't it? 

[RLLD 4,282]

3 minutes ago, League Champion said:

I doubt it, the Dems will just develop new deflection tactics. It's funny how they dream all this crap, isn't it? 

It would be better if we knew for certain it was just political gamesmanship.  Sadly, I think we are observing something far worse....people actually believe this stuff....

[Voltaire 5,528]

1 hour ago, The Real timschochet said:

Thanks for posting this article. It represents two of my biggest disagreements with leftists: 

1. Inequities are not evil and don’t need to be fixed. What we want is for everyone to have the same opportunity to succeed. Not everybody does and that’s what we need to work on fixing. But we will never achieve equality of results and shouldn’t try. 
 

2. For something to be racist it has to be deliberate- it can’t just be some outcome you don’t like. Example: if most blacks have less money than other groups that’s not racist. If somebody is DELIBERATELY paying black people less money because they are black, that’s racist. Big difference but Marxists don’t see that. 

I agree fully and am glad that you see it that way.

[Voltaire 5,528]

1 hour ago, DonS said:

I've never seen this movie, but that clip has me interested.  I need to figure out if it's streaming anywhere.

(as I'm typing this the banner ad covering half the form is about "black mental health" ) 

 

It watched it most recently on the Delta airline flight I took when coming back from China.

[seafoam1 3,513]

We should ship those people off to safety somewhere with cleaner air. Easter Island?