Final Intervention

 Environmental Racism

     My final intervention all about environmental racism. I chose this topic for my final intervention because this had been a topic discussed on twitter for a couple of weeks. I was conflicted with topics like the pandemic or immagration, but environmental racism was an attention grabber for myself. Going through a casual scroll on twitter I came across a tweet that showed a TikTok of a girl who holds up a sign that says “Flint MI has been without clean water since April 24, 2014”. In the first clip she appears to be 12-13 years and in the following clip shows her holding the same sign where she’s significantly younger. Another user then quoted this tweet and briefly shares that there are other cities, with a majority black population, without clean water, which then sparked a conversation on Twitter about environmental racism. (https://twitter.com/rabia_brown/status/1386773500598366218?s=20).

Little Miss Flint (Amariyanna Copeny)

    My main message for my audience is that environmental racism is an actual thing and that it is not just a “simple” case of racism. The term environmental racism refers to how groups of minorities and primarily people with a low socio-economic background are challenged with numerous amounts of hazards, disrupting and polluting where they reside. Living like this can result in many health problems like cancers and respiratory issues. This occurs because regulations and safety precautions are not enforced for poor workers, primarily minorities, and simply because “they can”. We should question why minorities cannot be accommodated like a non-minority would.

    I created a twitter account which acts like a forum for environmental racism and I wanted to create a space where it was open for discussion to all https://twitter.com/nvrnmntlracism . I chose twitter as my outlet because it is one of the best platforms where one can market and educate, dually. My latest retweet is about a young girl, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, a nine year old girl who lost her life do to air pollution. Her mother then and currently is fighting a great fight to make clean air a human right. 

    Hearing Ella's story was heartbreaking for me because I know she had so much more to live for and for her life to be cut short by air pollution and which was an unfortunate case of environmental racism. This project in particular fits into my professional aspiration and portfolio because It has allowed me to use a platform like twitter to become an interventionist. As a future social media marketer, I was able to experiment with what tactics and posts work best for an Audience that resides on twitter. All in all, the fight for environmental racism shall continue until we have a solution for this pandemic.

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https://twitter.com/nvrnmntlracism

Here is a Poster I created to raise awareness to the twitter page where we discuss all things environmental racism.