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Inequality among communities is a concrete reality. Economics, political influence and race are among the criteria in the distribution of amenities as well as dis-amenities (Bullard 2003). Racism is a very major consideration in the United States. Environmental racism is one of its forms and found in housing, employment, education and voting. It is an environmental policy, practice or directive, which discriminates, intentionally or not, according to race or color. It is a form of environmental injustice concretized and reinforced by government, legal, economic, political and military institutions. It blends with public policies and industrial practices, which make Whites benefit more than color people to whom the costs are passed on (Bullard)
New Ways of Viewing the Same Situation
In the past many centuries, people of color have been colonized or enslaved with the spread of European civilization throughout the world (Merchant 2003). With the growth and prosperity of Western civilizations, Indians lost their lands. The Blacks have been forced into labor and tied to the land as slaves. But recent multicultural perspectives on the environment have introduced new ways of viewing the relationship between race and environment history. One was the intimate connection between slavery and soil degradation

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