Environmental racism is defined as the intentional siting of hazardous waste facilities near minority, poor rural, and inner city communities. Victims of environmental racism find themselves in a situation where their livelihoods are being taken for granted due to their lack of mobility, education, and proper political connections to stop these hazardous facilities from coming into their communities. This topic is of great importance because liberal reformists would have the country believe that the laws of the United States are color blind and that racism no longer exists, which is not so. Lawmakers are attempting to draw curtain of color blind, racial utopia over the eyes of American people on the issue of racism, all while hundreds of thousands of minorities and poor whites are getting sick from living in putrid conditions, from eating and drinking contaminated food and water, breathing polluted air, as well as being forced to work in unsafe conditions and attend unsafe schools.