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Here's the sub-heading from the article you linked to: "The story: Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to p
by rufus_foreman 2y ago
Here's the sub-heading from the article you linked to:
"The story: Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway. The truth? It’s a little more complex"
- dghlsakjg 2y ago[flagged]
- rufus_foreman 2y ago"to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway" No evidence whatsoever for that motivation. You could take the bus to the beach.
- dghlsakjg 2y agoYou are quoting yourself not the article or me? No evidence besides the direct testimony of a person that worked on the project given to one of the best biographers in a piece of work that won a Pulitzer Prize. Also, the physical evidence of the bridges. Circumstantially, the man was openly racist, and openly used design to segregate. The assertion isn’t that you couldn’t take a bus to the beach. The assertion is that you couldn’t take a bus from the inner city neighborhoods to Jones Beach, which was true.
- potato3732842 2y ago[flagged]