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Do you have any basis for saying this law was racist or had segregationist goals? It’s not like the neighboring cities (Mt View and Menlo Park) have many black
by marcell 3y ago
Do you have any basis for saying this law was racist or had segregationist goals?
It’s not like the neighboring cities (Mt View and Menlo Park) have many black people.
My understanding is that the local resident restrictions were based on some local politics around purchasing the park a long time ago, and then transformed into a Palo Alto NIMBY policy. In 2008 Los Altos Hills tried to buy access to Foothill Park.
- thatfrenchguy 3y ago> It’s not like the neighboring cities (Mt View and Menlo Park) have many black people. East Palo Alto?
- AnotherGoodName 3y ago"The lawsuit also stated that the city's ban on nonresidents "traces its roots to an era when racial discrimination in and around the City was open and notorious" and cites mid-20th century policies such as redlining and "block busting" that prevented Black people from buying homes in Palo Alto." I'd prefer to point people to the text of the article rather than trying to relay a point made there to here and back again.
- marcell 3y agoThat’s a lawsuit from a motivated interest group, it’s not a primary source.
- aworks 3y agoIn 1970, Menlo Park was 17.4% black. Wikipedia says in 2020 it was about 3% http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/MenloPark70.htm http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/MenloPark70.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California
- tough 3y agoGentrification at its best