How the Pandemic has Unmasked Environmental Racism

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  1. Hello.
  2. This is Destiny about why did my research project
  3. on how the pandemic has unmasked environmental racism.
  4. I just want to start off with this little gift.
  5. Yeah.
  6. Now I want to go ahead and get a little introduction of the whole video.
  7. So environment racism has been around for such a long time. In America.
  8. Of course there's manufacturers, they go into it,
  9. but today we'll just talk about a little bit of them.
  10. Um,
  11. this issue has been around for such a long time,
  12. but it's the brightness is spreading around more
  13. now than ever. Um, and this is because of the coronavirus.
  14. I do want to mention that I chose this talking not only because I'm a person of color,
  15. but because I became very invested in the inequality showing through covid.
  16. So I'm gonna just give you a little overview
  17. what to expect during the duration of this video.
  18. Um
  19. we're gonna talk about environmental racism and justice. Uh Cancer alley.
  20. I do have a video but I'm not sure to play, but we have watched this video before.
  21. It's just a little, I'll just give a little description of it.
  22. Um hmm
  23. We want to talk about health and underlying conditions.
  24. Parish examples. This is
  25. a project based in Louisiana.
  26. If I talk about the Black Lives Matter movement and then after that we will conclude
  27. so in nominal
  28. racism,
  29. what is it involvement of racism can
  30. be described as racial racial discrimination and policies
  31. um,
  32. to enforce regulations and laws
  33. that target black communities
  34. and the best way I can
  35. define this is
  36. like systemic racism
  37. as for Ramona injustice
  38. in my paper,
  39. an article by juliana montage
  40. um says that environmental injustice can be described as the
  41. disproportionate exposure of communities of color and the ports,
  42. pollution and its concomitant effects on health and environment.
  43. Um like I said before,
  44. these boats are seen through communities where people of color reside.
  45. And I just have a little picture here.
  46. So now we're just gonna go ahead and talk about cancer. Ali my video here won't play.
  47. But um we did was just in class during my
  48. group picture
  49. um
  50. cancer ali is between
  51. new Orleans and baton rouge Louisiana.
  52. This video is based in reserve Louisiana which is between those two areas. And um
  53. it just gives us a general view of pollution in
  54. areas where people can reside and exemplifies environmental injustices.
  55. And like before um industries target black communities and it may not be purposely,
  56. but it does seem to become a constant pattern.
  57. So now we're gonna go into health.
  58. Um so for my health section, we're gonna talk about COVID-19 and unlike
  59. um conditions of it. So
  60. um just an overview of Covid, it's been around for almost three years now.
  61. Um I want to mention that it is
  62. a virus that infected the immune and respiratory systems
  63. Also that 70% of fatal COVID cases are in
  64. the black community and we have to understand that this
  65. refers back to underlying conditions and those bad habits that
  66. I'm going to talk about in a little bit.
  67. So in my people, you'll find a little scenario of a mother and I'll be able to pay for
  68. uh really nutritious mill.
  69. Um but going to Mcdonald's and Popeye's is convenient and cheap.
  70. Um so this usually is what happens in areas a little income. Um
  71. also
  72. I do want to mention
  73. that
  74. in order choir red um
  75. back dating back to slavery.
  76. Um
  77. so food,
  78. it relates to
  79. um
  80. food that is leftover food that's not very nutritious. But african americans have
  81. um kept this tradition of so fu for such a long time that
  82. they're oblivious of their bad eating habits and they're naming their obesity as
  83. being in the family or being big boned it. And
  84. um,
  85. this
  86. habit, this mindset keeps people of color
  87. in a cycle of underlying conditions.
  88. Um, and it worsens the chances of surviving the covid virus.
  89. I also want to mention that um when I say underlying conditions,
  90. I mean like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stuff like that.
  91. Also have a little chart here.
  92. Um and it just says african americans are more likely to die
  93. at early ages from all causes in with covid being around now.
  94. It just worsens your chances
  95. of surviving. Like I said before,
  96. Okay,
  97. all right, I'm gonna go ahead and talk about parrish examples like I said,
  98. this is based in Louisiana.
  99. Um So we're gonna go ahead and talk about new Orleans, new Orleans.
  100. Louisiana is what's one for a very nice area. It's it was a nice area
  101. but it's filled with many impoverished people from
  102. the flooding of hurricane Katrina.
  103. Um
  104. Of course new Orleans has built itself up,
  105. but
  106. many people still do swim through that generational loop
  107. of poverty.
  108. Um
  109. New Orleans
  110. does lack many resources
  111. and
  112. it's poverty rates are very high.
  113. Um
  114. Also do want to mention that
  115. new Orleans is an area prone to covid, mainly because
  116. people from New Orleans aren't very open minded to the idea that covid kit
  117. get attached to them. Um
  118. And I want to talk about reserve reserves in the video.
  119. Like I said, it's between new Orleans and baton rouge Louisiana
  120. reserve um issue is the
  121. um the plants, the factories there that pollute the areas.
  122. I'm not gonna talk about ST James Parish ST James Parish is also in Cancer Alley
  123. ST James Parish's issue
  124. is mainly the fact
  125. that
  126. um
  127. there
  128. our proposals of grain elevators that would worsen the economy,
  129. it would actually raise the economy, but it would worsen the
  130. the air pollution there
  131. even more.
  132. All right, just gonna hurry this up. Um
  133. So not only just going to talk about the Black Lives Matter movement.
  134. That Lives Matter movement has a little bit to do about,
  135. has a little bit
  136. um
  137. to do with this whole situation of environmental racism and injustice.
  138. Um It just brings the whole subject together of
  139. awareness. So it just brings awareness to the issue
  140. of vomiting, racism and injustice. Um
  141. like I said before, this project is based in Louisiana,
  142. but I didn't want to add some other places like foot michigan and its water crisis,
  143. the
  144. with the lead in the water and Union Hill with the
  145. pipelines and many other places when I just have a few pictures
  146. of the,
  147. so just to wrap this whole video, a lot of racism can be seen through many things.
  148. Um and it has been seen through the covid pandemic.
  149. Um
  150. and it has been a mess.
  151. I did talk a little,
  152. a little bit about the factors, not much factors
  153. because I wouldn't have time to,
  154. but
  155. um
  156. these factors all together have put
  157. can all be put into an area of systemic racism.
  158. Um
  159. the issues
  160. um
  161. that I talked about
  162. can worsen cover for people of color
  163. um
  164. even if you take necessary precautions.
  165. So I just want to say that environment in Louisiana has become very noticed
  166. and
  167. it's awareness has been brought forward because of
  168. many movements in one illness. The Black Lives Matter movement.
  169. Uh that's the end of this video.
  170. Um thank you