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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 environment...

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 h...

Heritage, access to parks and fresh hair, antihuman, that's the kind of stuff we're dealing with right now. >> vince, kamala harris has a lot to say and did so this week about environmental justice. >> when we think about an issue like electric vehicles, and so the venn diagram of it it all includes public health, environmental justice issue, as we know these days mostly the kids who go to school on the school bus are in low income communities. >> vince, she loves those venn diagrams. where is this going? you sense the drum beat building and is it for taking land from people, seizing opportuni...

Heritage, access to parks and fresh hair, antihuman, that's the kind of stuff we're dealing with right now. >> vince, kamala harris has a lot to say and did so this week about environmental justice. >> when we think about an issue like electric vehicles, and so the venn diagram of it it all includes public health, environmental justice issue, as we know these days mostly the kids who go to school on the school bus are in low income communities. >> vince, she loves those venn diagrams. where is this going? you sense the drum beat building and is it for taking land from people, seizing opportuni...