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Highways are kind of anti-poor, and as the black population in the States is poorer than the white population you could say (by stretching it a little) that hig
by paganel 6y ago
Highways are kind of anti-poor, and as the black population in the States is poorer than the white population you could say (by stretching it a little) that highways are racist. Robert Moses was maybe not a racist (I haven’t read that big book about him, I must admit) but the highways that he helped built did a lot of harm to the black population of NYC.
I mention all this because I saw that lady you linked to being frustrated at highways having been called racist.
- vangelis 6y ago"How can objects be racist?" and so on. It's not about the physical concrete and rebar, it's about how highways were planned and sliced right through some communities. You see the same thing with the statue debate, in a vacuum how can these chunks of bronze represent anything, please don't mention they were put during up a generation after the Civil War as a reaction to certain movements.