Is a Fast-Food Ban Racist?

New fast-food restaurants are banned in low-income areas, but not every mom is happy about this.

This week, Los Angeles passed a law banning new fast-food restaurants in poor neighborhoods. The fast-food restaurant ban, passed unanimously by the city council, is supposedly intended to entice healthier restaurants into the low-income, largely African-American area of south Los Angeles. Proponents of the bill say this will help reduce childhood obesity. But others say the ban is just plain racist.
Cindy, a mom of three, says that if it brings healthier places into her neighborhood, she's all for it. "Every ten feet, there's another drive-thru fast-food restaurant," she says. "It's hard to eat healthy when fast food is all you see for miles."

But Joselyn, an African-American single mom of two, is completely offended by the ban. "Fast-food doesn't only make black people fat -- it's bad for everyone. But why are they targeting only black areas? It's like telling me I'm not smart enough to make good food choices so the government will have to make them for me. continues here

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