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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Not trying to be difficult because I agree with you. But the worst policy decisions we made arehemming in poor and minority people in throw away neighborhoods and then basing every single policy we have instituted from then on on shaming them, punishing them, over-policing them, and depriving them of resources. Building freeways around their neighborhoods to accommodate white flight (and so the people in them can be completely avoided so we can pretend they don't exist) is just part of that problem.
TM
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Fair point, although as you allude to, cars and freeways to the suburbs were among the tools used to create those conditions.
