would pay instead of, you know, spreading wealth based on need. money woulneedd be allocated to individuals purely based on the issue of race. racnow, the premise, according to the left, would be to compensate for the evils oflavey slavery. now, first, the country billn simply cannot afford the billions and billions of dollars and trillion s of dollars that it would likely take to allocate and ultimatelyn ,i t is a punitive measure and one that will even furthervi dividede a country thaty deep is already deeply divided. those who support reparationly o believe that america is an evile country filled to the brim with generous notions of bad people. and while no intelligent perso n ,let me be clear, deniese the evils of slavery, it wouldnl be a great injustice to ignore all the progress this country has made on racial issues and other issues. which is the beauty o our great constitution. it has provide d all of us a roadmap that we can right wrongs and correct injustices. o
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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 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