"Environment Justice" is not the watered down "whitewashing" EPA definition. Sho

The depths to which the environmental justice movement is being whitewashed and the way in which it is framed in general to "all", "unjust" and "injustice". The principles of "Environmental Justice" stand and are not to be redefined! PREAMBLE WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to respect and celebrate each of our cultures, languages and beliefs about the natural world and our roles in healing ourselves; to ensure environmental justice; to promote economic alternatives which would contribute to the development of environmentally safe livelihoods; and, to secure our political, economic and cultural liberation that has been denied for over 500 years of colonization and oppression, resulting in the poisoning of our communities and land and the genocide of our peoples, do affirm and adopt the Principles of Environmental Justice.

The major point is the role of the Big Greens and the NGO's effects the environmental justice movement in the way they re-frame these issues, redefine Ej, pimping churches, the results of having a “not in my backyard” mindset, and the capitalism question. Likewise, they altimatly latch on to the most visible “leaders” of a community because it is quicker and easier to meet the director of an organization, minister of a church, or politician representing a district than to build real relationships with the people those leaders purport to represent. This approach to dismantling racism structurally reinforces the hierarchical power that we’re fighting against by asking a small group to represent the views of an entire category of people with radically different lived experiences.

The re-framing of the environmental justice movement as one that only white people care about, that then use this and re-frame the narrative to our black legislatures. Marginalizing and minimizing communities of color environmental disparate impacts.

Although these groups do very valuable work, they create a whitewashed vision of who cares about various unjust environmental conditions. Though the effect may seem small at first glance, but the coverage of environmental action actually can have very negative consequences on communities of color.

Overburden is mostly seen in communities of color not white communities but the white-washing of this has and is to change the narrative that black communities are still mostly disparately impacted and continue to be mostly impacted. To examine the “not in my backyard” mindset. No one wants toxic waste or pollution near them, but since the people in power (often white people) get to decide where these power plants or waste facilities are placed, they are often placed in the backyards of communities of color. Is it because people of color aren’t interested in environmental justice?

Are people of color too busy dealing with the issues inherent to being a minority in the United States to care about pollution and conservation? Those are the myths and misconceptions that have been peddled and passed along by those in the movement for so long that they have come to believe it no matter how baseless. Communities of Color care about issues that effect where they live having many environmental disparate impacts that equates to environmental justice. Statistically speaking you are more likely to see white people involved in the environmental movement confused as , but one can’t take that and then assume people of color are not involved or want to be involved, although some might have you believe that. Unfortunately the white-washing of the environmental movement is a reflection of years and years of exclusion.

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