Food Deserts in the United States

     As Nathan McClintock stated in his writing: From Industrial Garden to Food Desert, Food deserts are proportionately popular in low economic areas, specifically urban communities of color. This hypothesis has been brought up in our class discussions and is unanimously accepted as many people have had personal accounts to validate this claim. While the article focuses on areas of California, this same problem can be seen across low income urban areas of the United States as a whole and is a significant problem and also indicator of the disproportionate distribution of nutritious food which also highlights the overall economic issues the country faces.

    McClintock also highlights how these low income areas have congregated people of color using the military industrial complex boom of World War One to gather these citizens, with their hopes being that there would be stable jobs that pay decently. While this may or may not have been the case and intention  of the US government at one time. this has now inadvertently created and sustained the food deserts we see today which has now essentially forced these communities to take whatever jobs a shipyard offers regardless of pay or the person's skill due to that corporation dominating the job market in the area and also forcing these communities to live in subsidized housing with no perceivable way out of the arrangement. Personal accounts in class discussions have also supported this argument. 

    The current situation these communities face show signs of past and present racism and prevent these communities from escaping their food desert and economic standing.