Re:How the government set up a fake bank to launder drug mon...
by astrange on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:01PM
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> Racism is thrown around as a justification for anything today, but _real_ racist policies like:
> different sentencing laws around crack and powder cocaine
That persist today are almost never mentioned.
There are lots of explicitly racist policies in the US; you can't really understate it. Almost all land use and zoning policies were created out of very explicit racism, as in you can look up anything from city council meeting notes to Supreme Court arguments and they'd just say they did it to keep out black and Chinese people.
Robert Moses built low bridges surrounding NYC to prevent busses from being able to use those roads, and the reason the US has highways running through instead of around cities is literally because the planners wanted an excuse to demolish black neighborhoods. In California it's also the reason there are so many small cities in SF Bay (Palo Alto/EPA and Piedmont/Oakland) and several public parks like in Manhattan Beach.
There are lots of explicitly racist policies in the US; you can't really understate it. Almost all land use and zoning policies were created out of very explicit racism, as in you can look up anything from city council meeting notes to Supreme Court arguments and they'd just say they did it to keep out black and Chinese people.
Robert Moses built low bridges surrounding NYC to prevent busses from being able to use those roads, and the reason the US has highways running through instead of around cities is literally because the planners wanted an excuse to demolish black neighborhoods. In California it's also the reason there are so many small cities in SF Bay (Palo Alto/EPA and Piedmont/Oakland) and several public parks like in Manhattan Beach.