When you get to be my age you realize that you've never seen or heard it all. There are times in all of our lives where we think we just have seen the dumbest thing that anybody could do, yet you find out someone will come along to top that. It used to be someone saying "hold my beer" then doing the most redneck thing you could ever think of. Too often theses days, the head shaking behavior comes out of our political world.

Sam Roth, a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, wrote an article expressing his deeply felt guilt at being able to breathe cleaner air than his fellow Los Angeles residents that happen to be minorities. Roth was writing about a recent study published in a peer reviewed journal, Urban Review, that claims WHITE Angelinos are poisoning the air breathed by black and Hispanic residents while being able to breathe air that is cleaner.

The science behind their claim is that more WHITE people in Los Angeles drive vehicles back and forth to work or the restaurant or the shopping center while minority groups tend to take mass transportation or walk. The highways around Los Angeles were built through the middle of the minority neighborhoods because nobody would listen to them and were kept away from the more affluent WHITE neighborhoods. Thus the pollution from the cars on the highways lingered in the lower income areas populated by blacks and Hispanics.

Of course the minorities live in poorer neighborhoods because of the racist views of the politicians and their supporters that kept blacks and Hispanics poor as well as bulldozing their homes to make it easier for the WHITE Angelinos to commute to work and then back to their homes in affluent neighborhoods.

It seems Roth and the researchers don't pay attention to traffic on the highways of Los Angeles, which for several hours a day is so jam-packed that cars move along at a snail's pace, which means those WHITE people are sitting in the polluted air breathing it just the same as anyone else. They also seem to ignore the prevailing breezes that blow the polluted air further inland towards the affluent WHITE neighborhoods. Or that the WHITE devils work in the most polluted areas of the city for more hours then they spend at their homes.

But why let facts get in the way of a racist trope? Everything is racist and the fault of WHITE people. Roth points out that he does his part to protect the air quality of poor people by taking the train to work 2-3 times a month or walking to a local restaurant or shop instead of driving into town. If you really want to show you are down with the struggle, Mr. Roth, why not go live in those same neighborhoods that are so highly polluted? In fact, go full bore and pick a family to trade homes with. Let them live in your house and you live in theirs. I'm sure the woke crowd would treat you like a saint and minorities everywhere would sing your praises for decades to come.

It makes me wonder what moronic tale the left will try and push upon us as fact next. There is a part of me that still believes I won't see or hear something more stupid and idiotic than this, but I know it will happen. I know you are wondering why I wrote the word 'WHITE' in all caps. Because Politico and several other woke news outlets have told their staff that 'white' must never be capitalized while 'Black' must always be. It's putting us in our place and letting us know what it's like to be marginalized.