Does it?
Racist roads
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Does it?
It sure does Leprosy.
Hoosier Daddy
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you should know- when you wanted a loan to add a room to your mobile home, they said you lived in an area too poor to qualify for any funding, but you could continue to get food stamps and other assistance.
So you say, cum gargler.
T. A. Gardner
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Prove it. Show one case where planners deliberately chose the path of a highway for purposes of segregating, separating, or destroying a minority neighborhood in the interstate highway system.
Hoosier Daddy
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have a passing 4th grader read these to you, then spend about a month trying to 'splain it to your hillbilly ass....
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A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highwayshttps://www.npr.org › 2021/04/07 › a-brief-history-of-ho...
Apr 7, 2021 — Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.
US freeways flattened Black neighborhoods nationwidehttps://www.reuters.com › world › us-freeways-flattened-...
May 25, 2021 — More often than not, that meant routing those freeways through Black neighborhoods, where land was cheap and political opposition low.
Mapping the Past and Future of Urban Highways - Bloomberg ...https://www.bloomberg.com › graphics › 2021-urban-h...
Jul 28, 2021 — These demographic maps of seven U.S. cities in the 1950s show examples of how highways devastated established Black communities and hubs ...
Why highways were designed to run through Black ...https://www.postandcourier.com › news › local_state_news
Oct 17, 2020 — U.S. Highway 17 runs through the area. Numerous African American communities, rooted in Gullah culture, occupy areas along the highway.
Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American ...https://www.theguardian.com › cities › feb › roads-now...
Feb 21, 2018 — From highways carved through thriving 'ghettoes' to walls segregating black and white neighbourhoods, US city development has a long and ...
So you cannot cite a single documented case where planners deliberately chose the path of a highway for purposes of segregating, separating, or destroying a minority neighborhood in the interstate highway system?
AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
The link is already provided.
T. A. Gardner
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None of these prove racism was involved or the cause of the route selection. Instead, these and more--yes I did read them--all make the same sort of claim.
The highway was put through a traditionally Black neighborhood separating it and was done because of racism. That doesn't prove racism was the cause. It's the author of the article's opinion.
Many articles, like this one, resort to hyperbole and exaggeration then toss in unrelated race incidents to further try to bolster their case.
Millions? There were about 15 million Blacks living in the US, most in the rural South. To displace "millions" would require that 15 to 25% of the Black population was involved. Pure hyperbole and exaggeration.
What does this have to do with supposedly racist highways?
https://bostonreview.net/race/brent-cebul-tearing-down-black-america
Most interstates were designed to go through the downtown heart of a city where they passed through one. Many neighborhoods on the edges of downtown areas across the US are older, poorer, ones regardless of the ethnicity of the residents. It made economic sense to put roads through them for reasons like lowering the cost of land acquisition. This doesn't mean the planners were thinking, Gee, if we run this freeway through this Black neighborhood we can fuck the n---rs living there...
How many rural small towns full of Whites were bypassed by the interstate system and found themselves no longer getting the passenger traffic they used to and that resulted in economic ruin? Was that racist too?
This nonsense is just radical Leftists like Deborah Archer, looking for racism in everything.
Have you even bothered to look at Syracuse New York's freeway system? It definitely needs updating. It's interesting that these race baiters call I 81 racist while they ignore I 690 that runs exactly parallel to it in the portion of the city that they claim I 81 is racist in. They never mention the latter...
The two definitely need combining into one better and up-to-date design, but that doesn't make either racist.
That's but one more example of the bullshit going on in this idea.
Dutch Uncle
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Agreed. It was an economic decision…which, at the time, coincided with most African-American areas.
Still, economics, not racism.
T. A. Gardner
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I wouldn't even say "most" but rather "some." Like I pointed out, I think the impact was greater on small towns that were mostly or entirely White across America when the interstate system passed them by. It was much the same with the railroads before that.