Racist roads

AProudLefty said:
If you cannot understand the picture then I cannot help you.

There's a reason 'highways do not go in straight lines.' How racism is built into American infrastructure.

Experts say highways and infrastructure were built at the expense of BIPOC neighborhoods by design.

Those neighborhoods still suffer the economic and health consequences today.

Ora Lee Patterson grew up in the Rondo, a St. Paul, Minnesota, neighborhood where the city's Black community were based. It was akin to Harlem, with vibrant social life and thriving small businesses.

But then, the Federal Highway Act of 1956 allowed the state to claim large swathes of homes and businesses using eminent domain.

The state razed the neighborhood's main street to make way for Interstate 94, a 1,500-mile-long highway connecting the Great Lakes region to the west.

Patterson's home was seized, and she and her family were forced out of the Rondo along with other Black residents. Some homes were bulldozed, while others were moved and resold. The once-prosperous community withered.

"Highways have destroyed so many viable business corridors in people of color communities," he said. "If you look at how highways were built, they avoided affluent white neighborhoods and went through poor neighborhoods and people of color neighborhoods."

Many issues can be traced back to the practice known as "redlining" in the mid-20th century, when the US government assigned neighborhoods different levels of investment risk based on residents' race and income. Federal regulators would only back mortgages and subsidize housing in neighborhoods designated low-risk — usually affluent white neighborhoods.

Low-income, Black, and immigrant neighborhoods were usually designated high-risk, often explicitly for racial reasons. Mapping Inequality's interactive redlining map reveals common terms federal regulators used to justify blacklisting certain neighborhoods from government funding opportunities: "colored people," "negroes," "foreigners," "infiltration of lower-grade population."

https://www.insider.com/pete-buttigieg-is-right-racism-is-built-into-american-infrastructure-2021-4

You are not fooling anyone, T. A.
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That means you haven't got a fucking clue
 
Because most of the posts are blocked, I can't read much of this thread.

Just the same, racist asphalt sounds like a stretch to me.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
critical automobile theory......
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Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
If you cannot understand the picture then I cannot help you.

There's a reason 'highways do not go in straight lines.' How racism is built into American infrastructure.

Experts say highways and infrastructure were built at the expense of BIPOC neighborhoods by design.

Those neighborhoods still suffer the economic and health consequences today.

Ora Lee Patterson grew up in the Rondo, a St. Paul, Minnesota, neighborhood where the city's Black community were based. It was akin to Harlem, with vibrant social life and thriving small businesses.

But then, the Federal Highway Act of 1956 allowed the state to claim large swathes of homes and businesses using eminent domain.

The state razed the neighborhood's main street to make way for Interstate 94, a 1,500-mile-long highway connecting the Great Lakes region to the west.

Patterson's home was seized, and she and her family were forced out of the Rondo along with other Black residents. Some homes were bulldozed, while others were moved and resold. The once-prosperous community withered.

"Highways have destroyed so many viable business corridors in people of color communities," he said. "If you look at how highways were built, they avoided affluent white neighborhoods and went through poor neighborhoods and people of color neighborhoods."

Many issues can be traced back to the practice known as "redlining" in the mid-20th century, when the US government assigned neighborhoods different levels of investment risk based on residents' race and income. Federal regulators would only back mortgages and subsidize housing in neighborhoods designated low-risk — usually affluent white neighborhoods.

Low-income, Black, and immigrant neighborhoods were usually designated high-risk, often explicitly for racial reasons. Mapping Inequality's interactive redlining map reveals common terms federal regulators used to justify blacklisting certain neighborhoods from government funding opportunities: "colored people," "negroes," "foreigners," "infiltration of lower-grade population."

https://www.insider.com/pete-buttigi...ructure-2021-4

You are not fooling anyone, T. A.



Yakuda said:
That means you haven't got a fucking clue
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you are the one that can't read, chickenshit bitch who needs his ass kicked.
 
Well one good thing out of not building straight highways is that it helps drivers not to fall asleep.

Gotta see the silver linings.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
No, accepting reality, Buttjob's alternate universe not withstanding.
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you are as stupid as text driver, bitch. designers of roads do not just start building them in a straight line, regardless of what neighborhoods are divided....and decades ago, when almost all the state and federal roads were designed and built, blacks had almost no political or economic power, SO THEY BULLDOZED RIGHT THRU THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS EVEN IF THEY HAD TO CURVE THE ROAD TO AVOID A RICH WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD...get it, stupid fuck bitch? hello? anybody home?
 
Hoosier Mommy said:
decades ago, when almost all the state and federal roads were designed and built, blacks had almost no political or economic power, SO THEY BULLDOZED RIGHT THRU THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS EVEN IF THEY HAD TO CURVE THE ROAD TO AVOID A RICH WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD...
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Is that so?
 
Nerdsperg said:
It is called highway hypnosis. People lose concentration and even fall asleep if roads are straight.
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Butt-gigger has a solution:


Infrastructure Package Includes Vehicle Mileage Tax Program


https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2021/08/11/infrastructure-package-includes-vehicle-mileage-tax-program/?sh=18b5a4a331c6


Tax drivers so much that they'll quit driving long distances!
 
Hoosier Daddy said:
Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
If you cannot understand the picture then I cannot help you.

There's a reason 'highways do not go in straight lines.' How racism is built into American infrastructure.

Experts say highways and infrastructure were built at the expense of BIPOC neighborhoods by design.

Those neighborhoods still suffer the economic and health consequences today.

Ora Lee Patterson grew up in the Rondo, a St. Paul, Minnesota, neighborhood where the city's Black community were based. It was akin to Harlem, with vibrant social life and thriving small businesses.

But then, the Federal Highway Act of 1956 allowed the state to claim large swathes of homes and businesses using eminent domain.

The state razed the neighborhood's main street to make way for Interstate 94, a 1,500-mile-long highway connecting the Great Lakes region to the west.

Patterson's home was seized, and she and her family were forced out of the Rondo along with other Black residents. Some homes were bulldozed, while others were moved and resold. The once-prosperous community withered.

"Highways have destroyed so many viable business corridors in people of color communities," he said. "If you look at how highways were built, they avoided affluent white neighborhoods and went through poor neighborhoods and people of color neighborhoods."

Many issues can be traced back to the practice known as "redlining" in the mid-20th century, when the US government assigned neighborhoods different levels of investment risk based on residents' race and income. Federal regulators would only back mortgages and subsidize housing in neighborhoods designated low-risk — usually affluent white neighborhoods.

Low-income, Black, and immigrant neighborhoods were usually designated high-risk, often explicitly for racial reasons. Mapping Inequality's interactive redlining map reveals common terms federal regulators used to justify blacklisting certain neighborhoods from government funding opportunities: "colored people," "negroes," "foreigners," "infiltration of lower-grade population."

https://www.insider.com/pete-buttigi...ructure-2021-4

You are not fooling anyone, T. A.





you are the one that can't read, chickenshit bitch who needs his ass kicked.
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Redlining still exists. it makes people in some areas have much tougher times getting mortgages and they pay lots more for auto and home insurance. https://www.bankrate.com/glossary/r/redlining/
 
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