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[–] 101 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Where I live they ran an interstate highway right through where the black business district was. Ripped through the middle of town. I hate that highway so much, they keep adding lanes too. Fucking racist twats and the effects reverberate to this day, no transit just more lanes because of handshake agreements between good ol' boys in the 1960s.

"Nothing changes, even when it wants to" Hayes Carll

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    This is part of what's called redlining.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    To offer a refinement, if I can, redlining is adjacent to this highway abuse, so, easy to join them; same racially driven bastardry, different technique.

    Redlining was a real estate / financial tool that kept certain homes on a map from having access to resources. Sort of like financial gerrymandering. It's kinda cool, in a privileged way, to see a city's ghetto map and a redlined map overlaid; there is little difference.

    Anyway, I couldn't find a term for this neighborhood wrecking highway practice, but did find this article that goes into detail and links the book Dividing by Design.

    The Roads That Tear Communities Apart https://share.google/6G6B8K9VNck1Cb0ZW

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    One more: I thought redlining also conveyed purposeful impediments to black home ownership, like in the refusal of mortgage applications.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
    1. There were communities in suburbs built and federal funded that included racial exclusion provisions.

    Ayo Magwood has pulled together a great amount of information about the topic. Recently, she seems to have shifted to economic inequality driving many of the issues that were once, like all the years before the last 5 or so, primarily racial.

    Structural Racism — Uprooting Inequity https://share.google/1A6sgjkI0UOwpFxeO

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