• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    4 days ago

    purposefully designs the overpass to pass over a black community and evicts them all

    *This is actuslly how roads were built in cities the past century. The project “segregation by design” has extremely good archiving of this

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      The amount of black/brown neighborhoods in Milwaukee with random infrastructure is absurd. Like why is there an entrance to the highway on this side street?

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      purposefully designs the overpass to pass over a black community and evicts them all

      Adds black history mural along the same overpass

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      I think they were referring to Robery Moses, who purposefully designed overpasses too low for buses so buses from black neighborhoods couldn’t go to Jones Beach anymore.