When I used to tutor in a certain mid-Atlantic urban center, the overweight kids outweighed (no pun intended) the healthy weight or underweight kids. By far. That statistic assumes that overweight isn't the norm, and in some places, it most certainly is normal to be overweight.

As for environmental racism, it all gets muddled up. The real issue is income, not race. If they controlled for income, they'd find that there is no real difference. The problem is that black and hispanic people are disproportionately poor. There's no difference between a middle class black person and a middle class white person in terms of environmental exposure. As for Al Gore, he isn't running for office again so as far as I'm concerned, he can do whatever the f— he wants to do just like any private citizen.

A friend just sent me this article on how racism hurts the body:
http://www.boston.com/news/glo.....literally/