And if they hadn’t gone through those neighborhoods; that would have been then been somehow discriminatory.
I think his complaint is that they DID go through black neighborhoods. Picking up slums for pennies on the dollar, using eminent domain. I know a guy who owned property in this lily white town in the 1970’s when I-495 went through, and he got $250/acre on land worth at least twenty times that, even back then.
He had easy and quick access to the highway whereas the uppity rich white folk have to drive through stop light after stop light to get to it. Looking a gift horse in the mouth.