“In many American cities, the federal government erected roads designed primarily to bring mostly White suburban professionals into urban job centers — slitting established Black neighborhoods in the process.”
History lesson: In 1950, America was still 90% white; regionally a little lower in the South and higher in the North.
Interstates were a necessity for a post-war industrialized nation to move into the world leadership position. Social engineering programs at the time were focused on reducing urban poverty pockets and shanty towns, never expected to be permanent, by focused programs for black children and bootstrapping black adults into higher income brackets with affirmative action, preferential employment and education opportunities and numerous social services programs. In those years, generational welfare families was as foreign a concept as walking on the moon.
But why the handwringing over the displacement of blacks away from those freeways now?
Haven’t we heard story after woke story that ‘forcing’ blacks to live near freeways was racist? That living near freeways affected the health of those living near them?
Either the author has no knowledge of American history and demographics, or he’s being dishonest. He can’t have his race-baking cake and eat it too
Critical Race Theory: made for people who cannot handle logic. :-)