You're catching on... issues about the environment often are precisely about race. Do you think it is an accident that black and latinos just so happen to have higher rates of asthma and more health issues related to
the environment than whites? Do you think infrastructure and economic growth are separate from race issues? Do you think where the government invests money doesn't follow the same lines of systemic racism?
Society can be improved, but it can't improve by not admitting history as led us to the present point. And you are doomed to repeat it if you pretend history has no effect on the modern day.
Yes... unfortunately white Americans haven't done that:
https://daily.jstor.org/when-cities-...d-integration/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ts-study-says/
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswi...lfare-programs
And this is why race is part of the problem.
I said how can anyone even support this shit republicans are doing? How can anyone applaud these actions, but then I remember... race plays a huge huge part. Why do white Americans vote for republicans? Why do they vote for things that are against their own interest? Well often enough it is because they don't want black and brown people to advance. They feel they lose their grip of superiority.
Now to a person like you... who doesn't think history is important to today's world. Perhaps this to you is all new and impossible, but for those of us who give a shit about history. The outcome of the 1676 rebellion has been in play since 1676, through to today's world.
The outcome of apathy during reconstruction, is why we are in the world we are in now. The Tulsa massacre, the stealing of land, the segregation, the stealing of opportunity is why we are in the situation we are in now, and we continue to be in this shitty situation...
Because white Americans too frequently vote in fear "their status is being diminished" so they will vote to pollute their own waters, if it means their black neighbour doesn't get clean water.