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Transportation Secretary: Interstate Highway System Targeted Black, Low-Income Neighborhoods
cnsnews.com ^ | 4/29/2016 | Penny Starr

Posted on 05/01/2016 9:21:51 AM PDT by rktman

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wants to make the nation’s roadways more “inclusive,” according to articles published by National Public Radio (NPR) and Think Progress, the reporting arm of the liberal Center for American Progress (CAP).

NPR reported [1] Thursday that Foxx, who was raised by his grandparents in Charlotte, N.C. and became the city’s mayor before President Barack Obama appointed him to Transportation secretary, said highways were designed to deliberately hurt certain residents.

“I didn’t realize it as a kid,” Foxx said of the interstate highways snaking through that state. “I didn’t think about it as economic barriers, psychological barriers but they were, and the choices of where that infrastructure was placed in my community as it turns out weren’t unique to Charlotte.”

The NPR article titled, “Secretary Foxx Pushes To Make Transportation Projects More Inclusive,” cited the Sheridan Expressway in the Bronx, which links two interstate highways in the state.

Reporter Brian Naylor said urban planners back in the 1950s and ‘60s made “deliberate decisions to route [highways] through low-income neighborhoods.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: pcbs; politicalcorrect; roads; transportation; what
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Well that and the govt getting young african-Americans hooked on crack and handing out guns and ammo to kids as young as 10 in chicago. Srsly? Facepalm!
1 posted on 05/01/2016 9:21:52 AM PDT by rktman
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The road signs need to be translated into ebonics.


2 posted on 05/01/2016 9:23:13 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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Anthony Foxx is a black man...Whoda thought?????


3 posted on 05/01/2016 9:25:24 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: rktman

Women, children and minorities hardest-hit.


4 posted on 05/01/2016 9:25:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: rktman

Harrison Bergeron. Make everyone suffer.


5 posted on 05/01/2016 9:25:43 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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Well then, can we expect Secretary Foxx to put his money where his mouth is by refusing to travel on interstate highways going forward?

Maybe military snipers should be posted around the beltway and on the interstates leading into and out of DC to take him out if he dares to travel on one of these racist roadways.

What is this bunch in DC going to “discover” next in their attempts to divide this nation?


6 posted on 05/01/2016 9:27:09 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: rktman

Turning slums into freeways is classic urban renewal.

It benefits everyone.


7 posted on 05/01/2016 9:28:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Yes sireee! That was a baaad time.

Even something as great as the U.S. Space Program was designed to "keep da black man down"

Don't believe me?

Watch the long proven truth.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+old+negro+space+program&view=detail&mid=594214D1E09D1F3F6E10594214D1E09D1F3F6E10&FORM=VIRE

8 posted on 05/01/2016 9:29:13 AM PDT by skimbell
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Can we have our slums back?


9 posted on 05/01/2016 9:29:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full Civil Rights for Necro-Americans!)
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There’s a black man with a black cat
Living in a black neighborhood
He’s got an interstate running’ through his front yard
You know, he thinks, he’s got it so good


10 posted on 05/01/2016 9:30:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: skimbell

“... got laid that same night.”


11 posted on 05/01/2016 9:30:33 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full Civil Rights for Necro-Americans!)
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It's a weak, pitiful man who, though having no injuries, requires a crutch to stand.

Now, multiply that by 90% of 12.5% of the US population...

12 posted on 05/01/2016 9:31:58 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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Let’s run the road through a low income area at a cost of $20 million or through a high income area at a cost of $100 million.

Golly gee, what is best for the taxpayers?


13 posted on 05/01/2016 9:32:23 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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And if they hadn’t gone through those neighborhoods; that would have been then been somehow discriminatory.


14 posted on 05/01/2016 9:32:36 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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No doubt he’s waiting for the male tampons to become available ... probably be easier to get them once the interstate system is not so racially biased ...


15 posted on 05/01/2016 9:33:27 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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If interstates had avoided black neighborhoods, he’d have something else to whinge about.

There is a lot of politics that goes into the selection of a road route. How much of it is racially, as opposed to economically, motivated is about zero.


16 posted on 05/01/2016 9:33:49 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full Civil Rights for Necro-Americans!)
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Everything is racist. Air is racist. Water is racist. God is racist, look how crackers run the world.

I am so sick of this. These people want violence and hatred as high as possible to divide people. They cant have blacks hopping off the democrat plantation this year because masta hillary, with her fake situational southern accent and purse full of hot sauce, well, see, it’s her turn this time cuz she stuck with slick Bill all this time.


17 posted on 05/01/2016 9:35:01 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MUDDOG

I enjoyed that story.

Corporate America is full of Diana Moon Glampers...


18 posted on 05/01/2016 9:36:23 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Feckless

He was told to use that crutch by commie libtard lawyers to get some reparations. And of course, pay the lawyers.


19 posted on 05/01/2016 9:36:32 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Plus paying the moms to keep the papas away.


20 posted on 05/01/2016 9:37:36 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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