This is another human-interest example of how woke ideologies, and climate change mania are now coming together in a Leftist narrative of white critique. We are to suppose that white drivers are contributing to the ill health, and adverse climate change effects, by their disproportional use of cars in LA. They drive through Black communities, causing ill health from their car pollution. It is supposedly all due to racism in the initial building of the cities, where whites were able to keep highways out of their neighbourhoods.
Now, there is some truth to this, but the argument goes of the rails by taking the race detour. In fact, the problem is general one, and the highways also impacted upon poor whites, who are no longer part of the research subject matter from the Left. It is not a mere product of racism, but more one of general poverty and class. Poor whites have been affected just as much as Blacks. And, it is nothing new to say that the elites of society have moved to secure nice clean neighbourhoods, as getting the choice pick of the crop, is just what they do!