Paying people to dig holes then fill them up again.
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southen
I never said it was simple but when it comes to I-375 specifically it is a bit more cut and dry, but I suspect that is why you dragged Europe into it and every other conservative talking point to avoid the issue. This isn't to counter racism, this is to counter racist policies implemented by the government to deliberately destroy a black neighborhood. Wealth is passed along in this country via family businesses and home ownership, but you are telling me that a policy that targeted both of those things for a specific community has no lasting impact and nothing should be done to right that wrong?
In 1963, my step-mother's retired aunt was living on Evanston in Detroit and had to move because her house was condemned for I-94 a block away. So she moved in with us. At that time, It was all white east of Connors and so was Harper Woods, St. Clair Shores and Roseville. Yet the highway planners came through and targeted white housing and tore apart white neighborhoods in exactly the same way. Buttigieg is wasting money on the flakey premise that yesteryears' highway decisions were racist. The same money spent in any of those neighborhoods on education would have done more good. The expressways did hurt local store owners in both white and black neighborhoods but this is 60 years later. Those people are gone and neighborhoods have restructured themselves. Crossing a six lane road isn't going to be safer for children to cross than a pedestrian bridge. It isn't as if there isn't a shortage of vacant land already available to build all the things planned for this project.
This brings to mind FDR's investment in hydroelectric dams providing immediate employment. TVA dams, the Hoover Dam, and the Grand Coulee Dam have paid for themselves many times over and still provide inexpensive and clean electricity. Today's Democrats are tearing down FDR's hydro dams in the Pacific Northwest for rich anglers. I'm puzzled at whether destroying hydro electric dams or expressways is a more stupid reversion. This time its Democrats who are trying to bring back some idealized memories of the 50's.