President Biden’s Infrastructure bill aims to address racism in America’s highway design. In this episode, host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Daily Show writer Randall Otis and ACLU President Deborah Archer to discuss how the initial construction of U.S. highways displaced and destroyed thriving Black communities, the legacy of racist transportation policies, and how to repair and rebuild highways without inflicting additional harm on Black communities.
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The information provided here is extremely depressing if not annoying. I think such information needs to bombard the world until we begin to act positively with regard to reparations, ( legal, financial, emotional, ) etc.
ReplyNext up, air is racist
ReplyHighways to facilitate transportation for people is one plan that could have easily been used to convince construction the production and maintenance of railroads, bus lines more frequent.
ReplyThese highways were built to facilitate the consumption and maintenance of the automobile explosion if individual cars that transported maybe 4 people at most.
Poor Public transportation but huge profits for the auto companies and everything to maintain a transportation geared to the American Public AND it was bought
I had no idea this was part of Indianapolis’ highway re-design, but I’m really glad to learn it is! Makes the interminable 65/70 interchange detours worth it.
Reply“ROUTINE BURDEN OF CITIZENSHIP” What?
ReplyAdverts, talk shows, documentaries, bombard audiences. Such information should be continuously shoved in the faces of audiences until we all begin to act in a proper and humane manner.
ReplyI can’t even finish watching this, it makes me SO sick.
ReplyWho framed roger rabbit hits different when you are older.
ReplyThis is exactly why urban planning is so insidious. It plays the long game under the radar. I learned a lot of this in school for urban design in early 2000s, but none of the knowledge has been built into repairing the damage done.
ReplyIn the 1960’s my family home and business were taken, in Miami Florida, when I-95 was built. An entire thriving community was displaced as homes and well established businesses were bulldozed. We were not properly compensated and we never fully recovered. Racism permeates every fiber of out being in America.
Reply#bucha
ReplySay what you want about the USA, the consistency is impeccable.
ReplyI really appreciate learning about different perspectives of issues. I wish all people would be willing to really listen and learn from others. This world would be a better place for everyone.
ReplyThis is sad but true and another reason why we are owed financial reparations.
ReplyNow, these behind the scenes are how I perceive CRT to be taught. It is not violent or say to hate white people. It is shading light on the years of inequality after blacks built this country for free. Soooo when blacks enter workforce, employers are well aware that they blacks would have been better off and equal but racism did not allow us. Hopefully employers who sit in CRT class can treat and promote blacks better.
ReplyWhite America knows what they did… they just hope that no one will notice.
ReplyGreat reporting! Hope you can continue and digging deeper into these types of subjects
ReplySounds like apartheid spatial planning in South Africa. Infrastructure is the most effective way to maintain and perpetuate the legacy of racism.
ReplyThe reason black communities don’t get crosswalks and streetlights it’s because funding is based on home values, which in another segment you showed how those are undervalued as well. So it’s all on purpose.
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