A new study purportedly shows that people of color breathe air that is 38% more polluted than the air breathed by white people:
A study released by the University of Minnesota this week indicated that people of color are exposed to air that is 38 percent more polluted than the air breathed by white people.
In an interview with The Minnesota Post, the study’s lead researcher, Julian Marshall, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Minnesota, said that “the main [factors in how polluted the air breathed in was] are race and income, and they both matter. In our findings, however, race matters more than income.”
When Marshall compared the exposure gap between high-income Hispanics and low-income whites, for example, the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations were still higher among high-income Hispanics.
“We were quite surprised to find such a large disparity between whites and nonwhites related to air pollution,” Marshall told The Minnesota Post. “Especially the fact that this difference is throughout the U.S., even in cities and states in the Midwest.”
Racism is killing people, right?
It sounds a lot more interesting than reciting well known statistics that a higher percentage of non-whites live in urban areas than do whites.
Sheesh. Next they’ll be saying that white babies are born racist.
Gee, ya think?
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5 responses to “Does air discriminate?”
“white babies are born racist”
I thought everyone knew that…
Bullets, knives, and falling off of buildings also discriminate against the urban.
But I bet they didn’t tell you that urban air pollution levels are the lowest in recorded history.
white babies are not born racists they have to be taught it and you do a good job of teaching it!
Another academic exercise in the Ass-Pull.
Sheesh. Next they’ll be saying that white babies are born racist.
Not just white babies. When I was staying at a hotel during my time off in South America, a toddler [18 mos old?], who was the son of the hotel manager,started screaming at me when I was 15 feet away. This occurred again. The screaming stopped when he got more accustomed to me, and when he saw that his mother was comfortable with me. Several days later I could chat with the toddler’s mother while she was ironing, while the toddler calmly observed us.
My explanation of this was that I looked different from the people the toddler was accustomed to. He was accustomed to Indian/Mestizos with brown skin, black hair and brown eyes. I had pale skin, dirty blonde hair, and blue eyes.
At the same time, young children are indifferent to skin color of caretakers whom the children know. As long as an adult is kind to them, the color of the adult’s skin means nothing to young children. As one educator put it, the content of the vessel is of more importance to the child than the color of the vessel.