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That article literally points the OPs point out "Many Black Americans took to driving, in part to avoid segregation on public transportation. As the writer Geo
by NikolaeVarius 7y ago
That article literally points the OPs point out
"Many Black Americans took to driving, in part to avoid segregation on public transportation. As the writer George Schuyler put it in 1930, "all Negroes who can do so purchase an automobile as soon as possible in order to be free of discomfort, discrimination, segregation and insult."[1]"
- pavel_lishin 7y agoSure, it beat having to ride in the back of the bus. But to say that cars transcended race and brought car owners together across those boundaries is unequivocally bullshit. I'm glad Mr. Schuyler found the positives in car ownership, but I guess he hadn't driven through any sunset towns when he wrote that.