The economic relationship of America's black communities [with white society]...reflects their colonial status. The political power exercised over these communities goes hand in hand with the economic deprivation experienced by black citizens. Historically, colonies have existed for the sole purpose of enriching, in one form or another, the “colonizer”; the consequence is to maintain the economic dependence of the colonized. Black ecology grew out of the black liberation movement in that it finds the same conclusion in solving the environmental crisis that affected people living in American ghettos. In the closing lines of "Black Ecology", Nathan Hare declares: The real solution to the environmental crisis is the decolonization of the black race... It is necessary for black people to achieve self-determination through a black government comprehensive and multi-ethnic government. billion-dollar budget so Black people can better solve the world's worst environmental crises.