Grayox@lemmy.ml to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 10 months agoVoting is changing the Oil to keep the engine runninglemmy.mlimagemessage-square517fedilinkarrow-up11.18Karrow-down1297file-text
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minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoThat’s one big part of it, though there are other examples. The deliberate building of overpasses too low for buses to go under, stopping poor black people from getting to the beach by bus, is another well-known example.
minus-squarehex_m_hell@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoYup https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/racism-by-design-the-building-of-interstate-81 https://www.kqed.org/news/11943263/americas-highway-system-is-a-monument-to-environmental-racism-and-a-history-of-inequity https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/ There’s a whole two Behind the Bastards episodes on Robert Moses. And none of this talks about how highways allowed building suburbia, and how that’s ultimately just an extension of manifest destiny.
That’s one big part of it, though there are other examples. The deliberate building of overpasses too low for buses to go under, stopping poor black people from getting to the beach by bus, is another well-known example.
Yup https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/racism-by-design-the-building-of-interstate-81 https://www.kqed.org/news/11943263/americas-highway-system-is-a-monument-to-environmental-racism-and-a-history-of-inequity https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/
There’s a whole two Behind the Bastards episodes on Robert Moses.
And none of this talks about how highways allowed building suburbia, and how that’s ultimately just an extension of manifest destiny.