Transcript: It reminds me of the ābike to workā movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographic ābike commutersā and had only pictures of white people with the occasional āBlack professionalā I asked her why she didnāt photograph the delivery people, construction workers etcā¦ id. the Black and [Latine] and Asian peopleā¦ and she mumbled something about trying to āimprove the image of bikingā then admitted that she didnāt really see them as part of the āgreen movementā since they āprobably have no choiceā - I was so mad I wanted to quit working on the project she and I were collaborating on. So, in the same way when people in a poor neighborhood grow food in their yardsā¦ itās just being poor- but when white people do it they are saving the earth or something.ā -comment left on the Racialious blog post āSustainable Food and Privilege: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class) (via meggannn). END TS
the same thing when you look at the ~tiny house movement~ versus, say, people living in trailers, or even just renting in apartments or sublet housing
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