Environmental justice has become one of the biggest movements currently happening throughout the country. It fights to combat the environmental racism imposed by white lawmakers, which targets communities of color, causing them to have worse living conditions than their white counterparts. Examples of these injustices include lawmakers purposely placing landfills next to the homes of black communities at a disproportionately larger amount than any other race. The health effects of this phenomenon cause hundreds of people to suffer complications such as asthma. Many researchers understand the environmental racism plaguing our country and develop their argument using rhetoric to fight the power structure that allowed this injustice in the first place. I believe that this issue continues to …show more content…
By utilizing his logical and statistical data throughout the essay, Smiley can convey the information to the audience in a professional manner and provide the reader with the reassurance his data is correct. Thus, confronting the issue of the power structure which is currently plaguing the country due to the issues of pollution brought by previous lawmakers. Smiley’s study brings forward a specific health condition that is trying to be uncovered throughout the correlation of racial discrimination through pollution, even if it is not the direct discussion being pursued. This serves as a basis to fight against the structure being placed by former lawmakers and people in power. In the south, predominantly black communities are up 0.036 proportionally overall through all the studies conducted in his research (Smiley 397). The prevalence of proportion is to demonstrate how much stronger the correlation between two subjects is, the current rate suggests there is a correlation between both air pollution and asthma towards the black