Wednesday, May 4, 2011

blog 18 summarizing & responding to "where the whale be at"

 this passage "Where the whale be at?:the place of race &Racism in the discussion of enviromentalism By terry J.cole the author states that "The issue are usually racism,the proverbial "glass ceiling" econmics and equal opportunity regarding justice,healthcare and education. he stated that native americans are similar in their attitude of respect to many people of color.U.s.general acounting office estimate that between 13,000 and 450,000 abandoned waste site is located near people of color communities.cole stated that 600,000 students mostly african american attented public schools,he also stated that seventy-one percent of african americans live in counties that violate federal air pollution as opposied to 58 percent of white americans.he stated that black people are most likely to get live that doctors are less likely to keep a black person alive if they fall into cardiac arrest I disagree with this because i dont think a doctor will only wanna keep a white person alive another than  black person.he also stated that half all neighborhoods of color people have full access to a full service gocery store.he saying that white neighborhood have a fourtimes more supermarket than others."eating organic food or at least more vegetables and fruit would decrease the medical diasters listed above

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