Hip Hop and Hollywood has always been a sounding board for speaking about broad issues and it isn’t any more true with Antonique Smith.
In a recent sit-down with HipHopDX News Editor Soren Baker, the New Jersey-born actress explains how she believes disease is more caused by pollution rather than heredity.
“Honestly it’s a social justice movement just like civil rights,” she said via a segment of today’s (October 22) DX Daily. “We’ve been going around the country telling everybody that the reason you’re dying of cancer and heart disease and asthma is not because it’s ‘hereditary’ like they want us to believe. It’s because it’s the amount of pollution in the air and in our water from the power plants.”
Smith also talked about where she has protested and who she knows who’ve been affected by disease believed to be caused by climate change.
“We went to Ferguson, we went to Detroit, we went to Chicago, we went to Baltimore, we had a rally in L.A. yesterday and what people don’t understand is they’re literally breathing in toxins and don’t understand their apartment complexes are built on landfills,” she said. “My aunt died this year in January of cancer and my dad had cancer. He beat it thank God… [We want] the people to know the truth.”
Watch the full DX Daily below:
Climate change is a government scam designed to bilk taxpayers and corporations out of money. Its an excuse to raise taxes on civilians and rip off corporations. Don’t fall for it!
97% of climate scientists disagree with you. Don’t be an imbecile looking for conspiracy theories.
Also, if you’re going to make matter-of-fact statements like “climate change is a lie”, then you should be able to clearly explain how that’s true… People are very certain about things until they are asked to explain what they’re saying in detail and to provide evidence…
I side with C’mon now in this thread. But regardless of what you think of climate change, I think we should all strive to treat the environment and the earth better than we do. It is not our trash can. We need to take care of it so that it will continue taking care of us.
Climate Change is a lie. Its all about control. Government Control. Once you give them control, we as people have no freedom, no nothing.
How can you NOT believe somebody who’s famous & exposed to a lot in the world as well as seeing more of the world than most regular civilians (Fact). I can’t believe a nigga/wigga who just sittn in the house coolin or work a regular job.
I don’t think we are destroying the earth. We are destroying ourselves the animals an degrading habitats that sustain us on it. The earth is going to be here as long as we have the sun. Doesn’t matter if you think climate change isn’t real people at one point didn’t think the earth was round..
First it was called Global warming, but now it has been proven that the earth is not warming they change it to climate change. Well for those that don’t know the climate has always changed. In fact there is no where on earth where the climate stays the same.