White drivers are polluting the air breathed by L.A.’s people of color

Los Angeles Times ^ | March 9, 2023 | BY SAMMY ROTH

[artichokegrower]

Like many Angelenos, I spend a lot of time behind the wheel of my car. I drive from my Westside apartment to Dodger Stadium near downtown and farther east to hike in the San Gabriel Mountains. I take the 405 Freeway north to the San Fernando Valley to see friends, or occasionally south to the L.A. Times office — or to the airport, where I grow my carbon footprint even further.

So I couldn’t help but consider my own complicity while reading a new study from USC researchers, finding that Angelenos who drive more tend to be exposed to less air pollution — and Angelenos who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution.

[artichokegrower]

Overall, though, the map shows how residents of whiter, wealthier communities disproportionately drive to work through lower-income Latino and Black neighborhoods, spewing pollution. Residents of those neighborhoods can’t do much about it.

Damn white people driving to work

[Sarah Barracuda]

Wait so ya telling me blacks don’t drive no foolin

[Paladin2]

CO2 is NOT pollution.

[fwdude]

More nuclear-grade racism from POC.

Adams was right. Stay far away from them.

[thegagline]

The MSM is gunning for a race war.

[fwdude]

Any “disparity” is far balanced out by wealthier white drivers driving newer, better maintained cars which product a lot less in pollution. It’s the ghetto cars which drive dirty.

[gundog]

If whitey had stayed in the barrio, he wouldn’t need those long commutes.

[Angelino97]

Obviously, we must pay reparations for polluting their air.

[dragnet2]

Another no nothing LA Times AH.

Ya spend your life on the LA freeway super slabs, as people stare down 6 lanes of exhaust pipes pointing at them for endless hours, days, weeks, years and decades....

The pollution is so bad for homes near freeways the homeowners have filed endless lawsuits in the LA area.

[eyeamok]

Not sure who this chick writer is, but she sounds like my daughter did the first time she got sand in her vagina while playing at the beach.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

LOL. OK. Have the white people stay out of the city. See how well that works for minorities.

[HYPOCRACY]

I’d roll some coal, if I lived there. That’ll learn em.

[Sicon]

So, DRIVING is now racist? How long before they get around to, “White people breathing is polluting the air of lower-income BIPOC people.”?

[Williams]

Pure racist article.

[Navy Patriot]

White drivers are polluting the air breathed by L.A.’s people of color

Typical Example of White People polluting POC's air.

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While wearing Blackface, ... sly aren't they!

[Navy Patriot]

LOL!

[BenLurkin]

This is satire, right?

Nobody could be that much of a snowflake.

[MtnClimber]

[glorgau]

What about all those wealthy white people driving Teslas?

[dragnet2]

And as the endless jet aircraft on approach LAX, right over the LA area, they’re dusting everything below in jet exhaust, 24/7 365 days per year.