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Re:Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations by specialist on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:37PM (#44762208)
Have you read Robert Caro's The Power Broker? It's a biography of Robert Moses.
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Re:Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations by dizlexic on Friday August 01, 2025 @07:48PM (#44763670)
Robert Moses did not build the USA highway system.

Robert Moses was racist.

What was done to some communities was messed up.

The highway system isn't racist.

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Re:Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations by shakes_mcjunkie on Saturday August 02, 2025 @09:16AM (#44767360)
What point are you trying to make? I don't see how you're connecting these things. The highway where I live is certainly designed with racist intent.
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Re:Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations by specialist on Saturday August 02, 2025 @10:29PM (#44773587)
Are you confusing freeways and highways?

Robert Caro details Moses' role wrt highways & suburbia in NYC, nationally, and even internationally.

IMHO, having never Moses, I'd wager he was classist. (Moses allegedly also hated poor and immigrant Jews.) As you know in the USA economy & society, classist ~= racist.

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