Chapter 3 was extremely boring and dry. It discussed several studies whom had used the same information with the possibility of different methodology and how they ended at differing results. The chapter shares the siting process and shows a lot of support for it being a racist siting process, but explains that proving racism is grueling due to its abstract nature.
In class we had a great discussion touching on many subjects such as opportunity, equity, class, and distribution of wealth. Ty and yourself had a pretty heated debate over Hawaiians and Native Americans and the treatment that "we" have shown them and how they react because of it. We have taken vast quantities of resources from these people, including land, and we set up rules, regulations, laws, and policies that benefit us and basically ignore them. There is a disproportionate distribution of wealth and those without it have little opportunity available to them to change that. Banks give loans to people with money because they are out to make a profit and they want to make safe investments. People in lower classes are basically trapped there and defined by it, much like those in India's caste system.
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