Blog 3

Whether we like it or not, Race does and will continue to determine what your community will look like. Even the blind eye could see how this all unfolds and how the black community is being treated with their way of living. With the city not helping to fund or help in any way, it makes it seem that they have to “pick up the slack” since that’s the only way it seems to be. So the main point I would like to make is that black neighborhoods are just not being taken care of and both articles support that claim. To start off in the “Racial Capitalocene” article, they mention how many decisions made was actually racially motivated which could explain some made by the Reagan administration. “In the 1980s, the Reagan administration’s practice of cutting the budgets of federal environmental agencies had aggravated racist decisions. The report demonstrated that “three out of every five Black and Hispanic Americans lived in communities with uncontrolled toxic waste sites”. Once again, those communities are not being taken care of and are seen as just some other. In “New York’s Invisible Climate Migrants”,  this article talks a lot about how climate change originally forced people out of their homes and how even if it wasn’t necessarily their fault they still had to find a way. With their lack of resources, the wealthy saw this as a money grab which made a lot of the residents in New York but specifically Canarsie eventually move out. “Even before Sandy, though, it wasn’t easy to keep a home in these neighborhoods. Targeted intensely by subprime lenders during the housing bubble, they have consistently had some of the highest foreclosure rates in the city. But after Sandy, it became even harder”. Now these two articles are not directly related but both addressed that the Black community is not being taken care of.