Whether you are rich or poor, fast food is bad for you (Alter and Eny 2005). The amount of fast food one consumes is of course important, but the supersized nature of these foods and the relative ease with which one can purchase a lot of fast food does not help the consumer (Stender 2007). But that’s part of Americana. Fast food organizations plan where their franchises will be built. McDonald's explicitly stated that it wanted to find a McDonald's "within a 3- to 4-minute drive for the average American" (Lubow 1998). A study in the American Journal of Public Health found that fast food restaurants were fairly evenly distributed in predominantly white and African American neighborhoods (Morland 2002). There are a lot of things wrong with anyone making arguments about fast food based on this study. First, the United States is literally so much more than black and white. Second, this same study explicitly says: “Our results highlight the importance of including characteristics of individuals' local food environments in future studies to better understand barriers to healthy eating” (Moreland 2002). Indeed, even if we oversimplify the population of the United States by limiting ourselves to blacks and whites, we cannot ignore other factors that could make these black citizens more susceptible to increased restaurant consumption fast. These factors were exposed by Naa Oyo A. Kwate in 2006: “money, power, prestige and social connections” (Kwate 2006). It explains why these factors have