The Last Week Tonight episode on Environmental Racism is highly applicable here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v0XiUQlRLw
It's very likely the people being exposed to this are marginalized and have little power to respond.
It's very likely the people being exposed to this are marginalized and have little power to respond.
Yes, minorities are proportionally more likely to be in low-income communities, but the actions taken to harm these low-income communities hard the entire community, not just certain ethnicities within it.
If the intent was specifically to do this in black neighborhoods, regardless of that neighborhoods comparative wealth, then it would be racism. As is, it's a lot more complicated than that.