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This is not new news. This has been known for decades. Maybe younger people do not know this. It occurred all over the country when the interstate system was being built in urban areas. They did have to build the highways somewhere. I'm sure it could have been done a lot better and with more consideration for people who lived there. But had they not been built at all, it is difficult to imagine that today. Getting people and goods into and out of urban areas would have been difficult. The only thing I can think of is build the highways on an elevated roadway, like they did in Syracuse, NY, so the streets wouldn't have been cut off. Some houses still would have been torn down. But people there still ultimately didn't like it, and it would have been more costly to do it that way. Or, only build the highways around the outer edges of the urban areas and create a loop, and not actually go through the urban areas. Then maybe improve some of the then-existing surface streets. The idea then was to eliminate the intersections and red lights and have exit ramps. I'm sure there was a better way, but I'm not entirely sure what that would have been other than what I suggested. They thought that the benefit was brought to a larger number of people than the downside, but the interstates were a new experiment and people did not see the downsides when they were being built. Read about building the Cross Bronx Expressway and the effect it had on that area in the early 60s. That road carries I-95, a highway that runs from Maine to Florida. They did have to put it somewhere. Was that where to put it? Probably not. But then where would they have put it? The George Washington Bridge is part of that highway, and it was already there and had been there since the 1930s, so they had to line the new highway up with the bridge. They did build fewer highways through New York than originally planned when various groups fought them.

Hmm, 🤔 there seems to be a relevant case for reparations after the 1800's.

OMG Dequa, Vanessa, thank you for putting this conversation out on the ehtos.... this is so energizing and invigorating to hear foks have scap and still build. Here in Cincy I'm part of two communities LATINO and a Design professional Architecture organization NOMA - WE have to build together! THANK YOU!

If urban areas are indeed GENUINELY renewed ... then this is a verifiably good achievement. If, however, the political powers that be are merely pretending to renew urban environments, then we know damn sure it's being orchestrated very specifically and exclusively by idiot DEMOCRATS. Urban renewal sure as hell DOES NOT mean removing Negros. Those words mean ... renewing the environment - PERIOD. If idiots assign other meanings, then that's their own problem.

It's easier for crips and bloods to identify territory now.

Urban renewal destroyed neighborhoods of all races and ethnicities.

As a white man, I hope every one of the people in this experience the greatest thing in life no matter how long it takes. Nobody should have to worry about housing or a job or basic human rights unless you’re a monkey!

Great city , Cincinnati is 52% white 43% black but right across river in Covington it’s 75% white and 11% black. Quite a difference. Cincinnati is a great city and they have cleaned up the violence and drug a little bit but it’s still a problem…..the hip hop culture has failed the black community….. by setting young people up for prison or death….. such a shame

My family was a victim of this. They tore down our home and many others which lead to the demise of the whole city. Camden New Jersey was a good place until that happened. I was away in the Vietnam war at the time. But you can’t expect anything good or humane to come from these people. Just look at what’s going on today.

Cincinnati young blacks today ain't go NO RESPECT for where they came from and who fought for them.

Well if urban renewal is what you want, the name of this video is what is really required.

But there’s no such thing as ‘systemic racism’ , right?? I am so sick of seeing my black brothers stepped on .

The interstate highways were routed over the cheapest land the federal government could find period. Today, they would have to consider racial proportions.

Happens to non negro farmers all the time. America in general is fucked

This is happening all over the country in cities big and small to communities of color.

Did anybody get funds for their property or was it all rentals. If so those owners were. How could these highway be built without buying the property sounds like the politicians got their palms greased and let it happen

Highway 10 in Los Angeles destroyed a once vibrant black community. Gee, l wonder why they didn’t run that freeway through Beverly Hills, or West Hollywood, or ….. ANY white neighborhood?! And btw, non-white, non-Protestants were not allowed to buy property in Arcadia (next to Pasadena) in the 1950s!

Boo-hoo, I don't care. You are not entitled to those neighborhoods, nobody is.

My family lived on Comer Ave. in Indianapolis in early 1960. I-65 was slated to be built through our neighbourhood and they came and put big red X's on our house for demolition after we were moved. It would be another 13 years before they demolished our old house on Comer for the new highway. We are a white family of 6 and all our neighbours that got evicted were white.

I think the construction workers contracted by the politicians to do their dirty work are to blame for this too.

They are the problem

Woke nonsense as usual

Looks like there are way too many highways for that city. Why not just make a highway go around a city?

Is this video about highway or people!??🤔

You are definitely doing your part to keep racism alive.

Y’all are doing great work

The way things are going within 50 years. There will be no such thing as black & white people everybody We'll be Beige. Which is kind of cool Cause we can stop arguing over things like this.

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If you think this video is eye opening you should read, The Color of Law - A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. I recently finished reading it and it was just devastating to learn the lengths our government went to to make sure blacks and whites live separately.

The same thing happened in Los Angeles starting in the early 1960s and continued until the most recent freeway built completed in around 1995. The goverment (state, federal, and cities) plan these builds through the lowest income properties because they have to pay the property owners and tenants of rentals to relocate, which obviously costs them money. They aren't going to go through a neighborhood with homes worth $300k or $500k when they can go through neighborhoods with property worth $50k. It just so happens those are usually predominantly Black American neighborhoods. In L.A. they are Black and Latino neighborhoods. But, not in every case in L.A. . They built freeways through some neighborhoods that were and are still predominantly White. The Department of Airports , L.A.X. is located on land that had been a pig farm in the pre WWII time became a municipal airport, and then becaise of the war, it it grew and the area surrounding the airport was mostly just wild bean fields and the Pacific Ocean with oppulent mansions built in the 1920s for movie stars and the like. Then post war the area was changed from rolling hills of wild grass and pinto beans into GI housing for the veterans returning from Europe and the Pacific. The area is prime real estate with ocean and city views, ocean breezes, cool coastal fog, and an ideal neighborhood with schools, churches, shopping an almost television picture neighborhood of middle class living. Only to have the airport claim the housing in parts of the neighborhood too dangerous and noisey with the runways so close to homes. So they bought up the homes and made at least 300 - 500 middle and upper middle class homes and beach front mansions owners and families as well as two elementary schools and a jr high school move out and then tore down all the houses. They left the streets intact, like a modern ghost town. It stayed that way for 30 years. Then the Department of Airports cleared it and built a new highway extension of Pacific Coast Highway that cut part of the park and the golf course and what was land preserved for wildlife and that was in early 2000s. Now they did the same with more of that neighborhood removing housed and apartment buildings and schools to bring in the train and remote airport parking and a tramway into the airport that link to the two freeways. All of which was probably 85% White working class neighborhood. So, it isn't only the Black Communities although as I wrote at the beginning, they want the least expensive property to buy up and move people out. And we all know that across the U.S. those lowet cost neihhborhoods in big cities are Black people that live there. It is unfortunate but the government doesn't care.

Indeed, and a half century later practically every urban canter in the United States is transforming through the process of gentrification/hyperventilation: essentially the same the narrative of “urban renewal”, just the flip opposite. Essentially middle class and urban professionals presently demand more urban living. The wicked occurrences present themselves through private real estate brokers hiking up land values. Higher land value increases the costs of living all across the United States. I Just pray private return to more affordable levels all across these states; whether urban, suburban, exurban and rural.

I mean............kind of.......

There's no "warn and fuzzy feeling" anywhere now.

DAT DERE BEEZ WHERE DA PONY KEG WASZ ATTZ

We are the only life form that pays too line on planet earth

This is great, I've read a number of books on urban renewal but this does a great job of packaging the info in a very succint and easy to understand way

This is such fuckin bullshit. Fend for yourself like Mother Nature intended and quit voting democrat as it doesn’t help anyone especially minorities

Yes, it often does.

we are all going to be enslaved if we dont unite. dont fall for this black people . its going to be to late and all of us will be enslaved

Every city is different,up here in Dayton I75 effected everyone about the same but when Rt 35 when expanded to four lanes it effected the lower income white community more until the 80s when 35 was finished through the black communities so it's even now. I really think that highways should have been built on the edges of the cities and they the cities expand out to the highways instead of dividing neighborhoods. I have been looking at pictures of what the highways have taken away and it's a lot of small businesses.

There's certain parts of Pittsburgh they did something similar to this only it was high rent apartments and not highways. This raised the cost of living in those parts of the city

Yall better start acting right

Go to an all black resident ghetto. That's not how I want to live.

What is Gentrification?

Damn i thought this was a development companies slogan.

I remember my grandfather telling me about 71 when I was a child. Walnut hills side

I live in Southern Illinois and for the last 40 years they have been building large 2 lane highways around all of our small towns and all of our businesses are gone. Nobody stops anymore just Flys right by and most people are poor and white. So who can we blame?

This was the same comment that a former Black Republican Councilman The late Leo Jackson stated that URBAN RENEWAL meant Black Removal. They wanted to come through the Glenville Community in Cleveland, Ohio. So here we are 2024 and the Glenville Community has been torn up. Just slickening. Black People wake up!

And this happened through the entire country yet only in places where there were black people hints it was systematically done against black people by a racist federal, state and local government's this was only done to FBA'S ie foundational black Americans along with this and untold other thing's done by the government's and private sector's for 400-500 year's no one can factually say FBA'S ie foundational black Americans aren't owed reparations no sane moral person can deny this simple fact.......

So what. My grandparents had their beautiful homes torn down in Harlem so the city could build projects. It happens to everyone. But some don't cry and complain about it.