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.”
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You really believe our government looks out for taxpayers? LOL. Look at military procurement for a perfect example. Poor people can’t fight back. Everyone knows that. I’ve never seen interstates cut through million dollar homes.
They have enslaved people by saying they are liberated and empowered. The trick is getting people to believe it.
This is true. But it wasn’t just black neighborhoods. Those urban planners destroyed many old neighborhoods and replaced them with crime factories. Just another triumph of socialism.
i can't wait for all these affirmative action hires to lose their jobs next year
Such areas were regarded as urban blight in that era, and redeveloping them was seen as a good thing. The housing was substandard, the land was cheap, and removing the residents to shiny new public housing was all the rage. It’s revisionist history to look back and claim that these areas were targeted out of some negative motivation toward black people, it was viewed as an objective good at the time. Urban renewal.
What a DUMB ASS; the highways back in the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s were routed for the most direct, least resistance, cost effective routes possible.
Back then they were built for military infrastructure, and ease of moving material and equipment intrastate and interstate.
The engineers back then didn’t sit down and ask themselves “how can we screw a group of people”, they sat down and said “how can we move a tank, truck, or toops fast and efficiently from here to there”.
Obviously our Transportation Secretary has a liberal, BLM, Gibsmedat, third grade education.
This is what you get when you have a huge overabundance of government employees. They all sit around on their butts all day just thinking crap up.
I-696 in Detroit goes right through a Jewish neighborhood. Know what they did? They dealt with it.
I-95 in Baltimore was scheduled to go through a black neighborhood. The neighbors made a good enough case not to that it was rerouted.
When you have an interstate system like ours, it’s bound to go through good and bad areas. It’s also bound to have built up new areas based on highway proximity. I daresay more people have been helped by the highway than hurt.
So, our esteemed Sec of Trans never had underpasses explained to him? Probably way too technical for an affirmative action hire.
In the South, darkie town typically surrounds downtown. Short of an elevated roadway, how were they supposed to get the interstate through there to where the traffic and economic activity was going on?
This is just one of a series of efforts you’ll see to get the black vote excited. Look for Hitlery to mention this within a week.
Next it will be time for them to repeat the false claim that blacks suffered a higher casualty rate in Vietnam. That’s Sec Def territory (another political hack).
Being a black man, I could write an entire article about how this premise is WRONG. But its easier to say that over 95% of the interstate system was built on and through white communities, and on land purchased from white people, mostly via eminent domain.
Some communities and states made ordinances to make the highway system work for them. Others choose to use the highway system to exploit those who would dare exit into their communities and/or use it as a reason for their community failures.
This is one subject that is right in my wheelhouse. These sames lies were preached to me during my childhood. I rejected them then, as well as today. I encourage everyone to do the same.
In other words, we should move the jobs and economic development away from black neighborhoods to white neighborhoods? OK, if you insist.
Thank you sir for not having been “hornswaggled”. LOL!
The solution is to tear up the highways and re-route them thru Beverly Hills or Manhattan etc. Re-build the homes lost by those in poor neighborhoods and let the poor move into them......
PS. That transportation secretary will be unemployed in 8 months...too bad for him (:-))
A couple of years ago, I spent a long 6-hour flight sitting next to a civil rights attorney from CalTrans.
After we exchanged business cards, I asked him why the transportation department needed civil rights lawyers.
Turned out to be both a fascinating and a disturbing conversation
I can’t wait either!
No more Jehs, Erics, etc....No more white collar welfare for you!
Welcome to the Human Race. We must always think like this, it will be our salvation. Amen.
There’s that darn eminent domain thing again.
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