[rickmichaels]

This kind of smoke also disproportionately targets their communities:

[simpson96]

"Scientists found..."

No. Propagandists found.

With free grant money.

[blam]

I quit radical left National Geographic years ago. Go away NG!

[Steve_Seattle]

One wonders what mental gymnastics they had to perform in order to reach this conclusion. Where I live (Seattle area), the major public fireworks celebration are held at the Seattle Center (former world's fair site) and Lake Union (from a barge), near the city center. If anything, these are near affluent areas, and are miles away from neighborhoods with a large concentration of minorities.

Apart from very small "fireworks" suitable for children, it's illegal to buy fireworks except at one of the Indian reservations, and I believe it's illegal to detonate any fireworks that go into the air. That applies both to the city of Seattle and surrounding suburbs. But that does not deter some people from detonating firecrackers and other small fireworks in most neighborhoods, regardless of their ethnic makeup.

If the Indian reservations have more fireworks smoke than other areas, it's because they CHOOSE to make money by selling fireworks, and to provide a field away from buildings where they can be legally (and presumably safely) used. No one forces them to do it.