This is my Op-Ed. It focuses on current social justice issues. The requirements were that it had to be at most 450 words long, there had to be at least one quote from the NY times and one other quote from any other reliable new source. It really was a big challenge to condense everything to 450 words when it’s so easy to let everything flow out onto the paper.  My argument had to do with the environmental justice issues that we are currently facing around the country. This is my Op-Ed that I submitted to The New York Times: