A Brief History of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways

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SummerMadness said:
Yay, straw man!
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It is a legitimate question. What is the solution to ridding the country of or racist highways? We all clearly know what the problem is so how do we fix it? The truth is that, in almost all issues, the Democrats can not win by the merits. They can only progress their agenda by inciting an emotional response to generate support. The fact that you, or the politicians, can not answer the simple question, (dispite the fact that I am not even arguing the false premis that the roads are racist) as to how we fix the problem with racist roads only proves my statement true.The race card is all they have left...and it is working. So let's make the highways woke again!
 
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SummerMadness said:
Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them?
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I'm guessing that the person who wrote this article lives in a major city and so has been able to use mass transit most of their life.

Get out to the more suburban or even rural parts of the nation, and you'll see that this isn't the case.

The further out you go, the more that "having your own private vehicle" is the safest and most convenient method of transportation, especially given the distances that you have to cover.

My neighborhood, for example, isn't served by the regional metro bus line. I can't even tell you where the nearest bus stop is for inter-city travel, let alone regional commuter travel. The newspaper I'm with is 15 minutes away by car, the main local grocery store is another 10 minutes past that (as is the theater where I go to see movies for my review columns), and if I want or need something other than what the local Wal-Mart and H-E-B Grocery can provide, I've got to go into a nearby town... with "nearby" being as much as 30 minutes of drive time depending upon where I have to go.

"If you can't walk to it then you don't need to go there!" just doesn't cut it.
 
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Ironhold said:
I'm guessing that the person who wrote this article lives in a major city and so has been able to use mass transit most of their life.

Get out to the more suburban or even rural parts of the nation, and you'll see that this isn't the case.

The further out you go, the more that "having your own private vehicle" is the safest and most convenient method of transportation, especially given the distances that you have to cover.

My neighborhood, for example, isn't served by the regional metro bus line. I can't even tell you where the nearest bus stop is for inter-city travel, let alone regional commuter travel. The newspaper I'm with is 15 minutes away by car, the main local grocery store is another 10 minutes past that (as is the theater where I go to see movies for my review columns), and if I want or need something other than what the local Wal-Mart and H-E-B Grocery can provide, I've got to go into a nearby town... with "nearby" being as much as 30 minutes of drive time depending upon where I have to go.

"If you can't walk to it then you don't need to go there!" just doesn't cut it.
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A man from Minnesota whose family owns a chicken farm? Does that count as someone from a major city with mass transit most of their life?
 
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SummerMadness said:
A man from Minnesota whose family owns a chicken farm? Does that count as someone from a major city with mass transit most of their life?
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Where does it say this about the author of the article?

That's who I was referring to, unless you yourself are that author.

And while the article makes the claim that this was an effort to stamp out rougher neighborhoods, it doesn't have a single citation to prove it despite the author going to the trouble of getting historical maps provided by early works pitching the roadways themselves.
 
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Ironhold said:
Where does it say this about the author of the article?

That's who I was referring to, unless you yourself are that author.

And while the article makes the claim that this was an effort to stamp out rougher neighborhoods, it doesn't have a single citation to prove it despite the author going to the trouble of getting historical maps provided by early works pitching the roadways themselves.
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You're referring to the author, a man whose family hails from rural Minnesota.

The history of the US Highway System and racial discrimination is not news, the denial and revisionism on the other hand...

Original Intent: Purpose of the Interstate System 1954-1956
In planning highway alignments, city officials for obvious reasons will want the proposed routes to pass through the city's slum and blighted section in preference to the city's finer residential and business areas... Highways are made possible and at the same time new life is brought to tired neighborhoods.
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Black neighborhoods were targeted because they were considered urban blight. Oh noes!!!1 It had nothing to do with race, it was just about income! Yeah, because urban slums in the 20th century America were created due housing discrimination with employment discrimination keeping wages low the black community. Racism pushed them into ghettoes and their neighborhoods were considered expendable, as evidenced by highways cutting through neighborhoods with little access to residents. It was all about giving preference to finer residents.
 
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Chrystal-J said:
If it's only poor black neighborhoods, then why did they tear down "Pole town"? (a Polish neighborhood here in Detroit.) They displaced Poles, not blacks.
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Multiple neighborhoods of Polish immigrants were torn down in the 1950s to build the US interstate system? This is news to me.
 
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