Pete Buttigieg: Racism is 'physically built into' country's highways

Good you’re learning. You aren’t stating facts if you think the Earth being round is irrefutable but its cute you’re trying.

You’re right! There is no expert at NPR. That’s why they interviewed them. Now tell me the name of the person they interviewed and where they’re from.

 

Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain.

It left a deep psychological scar on neighborhoods that lost homes, churches and schools, says Deborah Archer, a professor at the New York University School of Law and national board president of the American Civil Liberties Union. Archer recently wrote for the Iowa Law Review about how transportation policy affected the development of Black communities.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways

It seems there was a purpose in disrupting minority communities during the construction of the highway system.

 

Why would officials have targeted thriving vibrant communities? Was it just because the people who lived there were Black and or brown?

Some of the time, yes, that was actually the case. The highways were being built just as courts around the country were striking down traditional tools of racial segregation. So, for example, courts were striking down the use of racial zoning to keep Black people in certain communities and white people in other communities. And so the highway development popped up at a time when the idea, the possibility of integration in housing was on the horizon. And so very intentionally, highways were sometimes built right on the formal boundary lines that we saw used during racial zoning. Sometimes community members asked the highway builders to create a barrier between their community and encroaching Black communities.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways

More info from the same article about purposely dividing communities.

 

They interviewed no expert

 

Which of course is an empty claim with no evidence.

NPR kmerely wrote an oped

 

So who did they interview, where are they from and what are their credentials? Or perhaps it would be more helpful for you to talk to your local librarian about what counts as an expert?

 

Then you simply don't have a clue what an OP Ed piece is.

From the link.

It left a deep psychological scar on neighborhoods that lost homes, churches and schools, says Deborah Archer, a professor at the New York University School of Law and national board president of the American Civil Liberties Union. Archer recently wrote for the Iowa Law Review about how transportation policy affected the development of Black communities.

 

More information about the construction of the highway system and how is was used to divide the country racially.

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Yet although Congress unified around the construction of a national highway system, the American people did not. Contemporary nostalgia for bipartisan support around the Interstate Highway Act ignores the deep fissures that it inflicted on the American city after World War II: literally, by cleaving the urban built environment into isolated parcels of race and class, and figuratively, by sparking civic wars over the freeway’s threat to specific neighborhoods and communities. This book explores the conflicted legacy of that megaproject: even as the interstate highway program unified a nation around a 42,800-mile highway network, it divided the American people, as it divided their cities, fueling new social tensions that flared during the tumultuous 1960s.
https://www.alternet.org/2014/07/how-america-built-its-highways-serve-wealthy-and-white/
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Sucks for you. Guess it’s renters suite then, hehe. Just don’t use the word Master at all because it makes black people hide in their owners suite.

 

There are literally thousands of search results if you are interested in actual information
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1208&context=curej

 

Yes I do and this is an oped with input from a professor. With no evidence or expertise.

It is not a documented fact based news piece or even a documented fact based historic account.

 

Facts and eviddence not opinion which agrees with you.

Much like crank you seem to lack comprehension of how opinion and fact are not the same

 

Since blacks only make up 12.9% of the US population, I would imagine planning those highways to go through their communities was not easy. Those planners had their work cut out for them to redirect major highways systems to hit such a small portion of the population.

 

More woke opinion with no evidence.

Pretty much a closed case buttgieg is a fool spewing revisionist crap

 

No.
The gist of the article is the interview with the professor. Who also seems to be an expert on the topic.


op-ed
or Op-Ed (ŏp′ĕd′)
adj.
Of or being a newspaper page, usually opposite the editorial page, that features signed articles expressing personal viewpoints.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/op-ed

An article with an interview is NOT the definition of Op-Ed.
It is not expressing a personal viewpoint.
It is writing about the person interviewed, who in this case is a professor with knowledge on the topic. In other words, an expert.

 

I see, you've read the entire book to form your opinion.

What in the book makes you think it's merely an opinion?

 

Because they're never done with it. That's the point. They have to call something else racist every 5 minutes to try to keep their targets on the defensive. They have no rational argument so they shove the irrational down everyone's throats.

 

Oh so now you want to discuss DNC history of keeping them far below national averages along with their inner city schools.. Wow you need to bone up on history and the plight of the American Negro and the hand of the American Democrat politicians since slavery

The DNC has for a century to be uneducated, addicted to alcohol, drugs and most of all the party that provides subsidies.. The DNC is worst thing a Black man can follow, because it leads to modern day dependency/slavery..

 

And that sort of mentality is why African Americans vote for Democrats. You ignore all the good. The Democrats signed the 1964 civil rights bill. It was a Democrat who desegregated the military. It was a black democrat who gave hope to millions of African smericand by becoming president. What have the gop done other than fail to distance themselves from Steven King?

 

Here is what R's have done for Blacks.

Can you count all the blacks they elect to represent them?

 

Wow you're history is weak! LBJ couldn't get the Civil rights bill passed as very few of the Dixiecrats supported it.. It was the Republican party that got it passed, hell even LBJ thanked them and also gave credit to the GOP for getting it passed..

 

I can count on my hands. It’s pretty obvious the GOP has a serious problem with minorities.

Yup. And which political party got Dixiecrat support? I’ll give you a hint the same party as Nixon.

 

Do you remember the hit jobs from the left on Mia Love and Allen West? If minorities are so important to the left then why did they nominate an old white guy with a history of racism and abuse of women?

 

You're just blurting nonsense now. Clearly the plight of the negro is not your forte Bottom line is the Dixiecrats kept them simple, funded and contained is pocketed area's.

The GOP is not well received by Blacks because their work skills are very limited along with their desire to travel to better opportunities..

 

Yeah that last statement is pretty racist.