During my first year of college, I became aware of difficulties Los Angeles communities faced. I made an attempt to reconsider many of the informal understandings that I had previously accepted as just being "life." One of the paths I took to expand my knowledge of the issues in Los Angeles involved taking a course called "Engaging LA." As a class assignment I read "Concerned Citizens: Environmental (In)justice in Black Los Angeles,"
The author, Sonya Winton, describes the environmental difficulties that low income communities face. She claims that politicians in Los Angeles are inequitable; the politicians spend more time trying to upgrade the high income communities, instead of improving the negative in the low income communities. She reports that one of the problems in the low income communities-in Los Angeles-is the placement of landfills. Winton observes that landfills are usually neighbors, if not residents, to the low income communities. She states that the reason politicians choose to place these waste facilities in the low income communities is because they believe that the residents of these communities care little about environmental issues.
Winton states that the politicians double-cross the residents by offering them jobs, and by …show more content…
I realized that we can't always leave matters on the hands of others, because people would set your life and health aside for their advantage. As I went deeper into the subject, I found out that there really is environmental injustice in Los Angeles. Environmental injustice not only in the placement of landfills, but also in the placement of parks. I picture two parts of the Los Angeles county. One side of Los Angeles is beautiful, green, and has clean air,on the contrary the other side is smelly, full of concrete, and has large amount of smoke-fogs. All these environmental issues have negatively impacted the low income