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> Midcentury highway projects often targeted Black neighborhoods Now ask yourself why these cities had “black neighborhoods” instead of anyone being able to li
by Lammy 5y ago
> Midcentury highway projects often targeted Black neighborhoods
Now ask yourself why these cities had “black neighborhoods” instead of anyone being able to live in any part of the city they want. Fifty years of anti-housing activism pushed many vulnerable people out to the fringe cities, and now these places want to make sure those people stay out by removing the roads.
- bobthepanda 5y agoNo, black neighborhoods were inner city. Suburbs were formed by white people who could afford the ongoing expense of cars and then kept people out via zoning as the cities decayed, and this trend accelerated after Brown vs. Board of Ed since everyone had to integrate school districts but suburbs remained lily-white as cities integrated. The suburbanisation of poverty is very recent.
- bigbillheck 5y ago> Now ask yourself why these cities had “black neighborhoods” instead of anyone being able to live in any part of the city they want. By and large it was 'systematic racism'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_(law)#Exclusionary_covenants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_(law)#Exclusionary_co... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining#Racial_segregation_in_American_cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining#Racial_segregation_i... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town just for starters.