A Point to Consider...

There has been an increased appreciation for the environment...

The growing number of voices speaking out about the injustices being perpetrated against the world we live in have sounded the alarm on the many challenges we are poised to face if changes are not made. We are told of the reckoning that awaits us as penance for our mistreatment of the environment.

These growing voices speak to a broader issue that has been compounded by years of predatory practices, greed, and unnatural assumptions about nature. They decry the abuse of the resources being exploited while often avoiding the specific issue of the people who are already suffering the consequences of this exploitation—and have been for generations.

There are cities and states across the American plantation that knowingly force people to suffer the consequences of someone else’s abuse of resources. All across America are people who bear the cost of actions over which they have little to no control. Activism and advocacy are luxuries many Black souls feel they do not have the intrinsic or extrinsic capital to afford. It takes time and resources to raise your voice. There is a privilege embedded in that act—one that Black souls have not always felt they could claim.

Viewed through a humanistic lens, the broader issue of environmental justice reveals a horrific picture of environmental racism that has lasted for decades, if not centuries.