white and affluent drivers are polluting the air breathed by people of color, mr. roth is racked by guilt for how he is driving on the 405 to the valley and it s not only growing his carbon footprint, he s fueling other racist outcomes as well. he said i couldn t help but consider my only complicit while reading a new study from usc researches, found that angelinos who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution. now the argument is that low income communities of color were torn apart to make way for freeways over the decade, while the whiter, richer, this constitutes environmental racism. environmental racism, it s about policies that practices that discriminate against communities of color by making them live near landfills, sewage plants and polluting facilities. by making people live near landfills? we re making people live next to polluting facilities? well, that s obviously ridiculous. and this is obviously not about race, it s about poverty. and who is to blame
and. then spend those moneys on sustainability projects that make their donors and their cronies rich. also if freeways are racist, the king of bigots must be president dwight d. eisenhower who commissioned the construction of 41,000 miles of highway in the federal highway act of 1956. i want you to meet the godfather of the environmental justice movement, robert bullard. when we talk about infrastructure in the past. infrastructure like highways and roads. that infrastructure was detrimental to many communities, black and brown communities and destroyed a stable community. so we have to be careful not to assume that all infrastructure is created equal. people actually write those lines. of course, what this is really all about is control. democrats don t have any real plans to raise the general standard of living for working people. white black brown. in fact, they re doing the opposite. their wrecking our economy without a control spending and by limiting our oil and gas
who get thousands of dollars personally in benefits and food stamps and everything else, and you guys need a he hadding hand in an emergency, the basics of government and it s like no one is answering. yeah, just feel like it s a cluster up here. everybody seems to be fighting with each other, who is in charge, the county, we re relying on the county, the county has the state, we need federal aid, i m personally still helping dig out people right now. laura: now, michelle, so days after this storm started, governor newsom took off for a personal trip to mexico. how did that sit with your fellow snow bound neighbors? i feel like i haven t been talking to too many people, mexico sounds a lot better than being snowed in. laura: well, is that where your want your governor and what was, you know, a deadly snow
storm? i mean, this is hands on stuff, this is happening in both parties, people just take off. again, this is about government, government being there for the people. i mean i know that 13 counties, 13 counties were declared in a state of emergency. you would think that he would take precedence over that. look, it would be nice to see him in our town and see what we re dealing with. laura: what s going to happen with the melt? michelle i think that is the question people are asking. i ve never seen snow like this. i spent a lot of time in northern california, i ve never seen snow like this. like mammoth and tahoe gets snow like this. we haven t seen snow like this in 50 years. for sure we re not prepared for this magnitude of snow. now we apparently have rain coming, so there is a lot of fear. everybody is getting sand bags and prep for that. people have this 4 feet of snow load still on their roofs. so, yeah, we re still in a pure panic up here