When Buttigieg said that, racism was built into the highways, I thought people would understand it was a metaphor meaning that racism play a factor into the construction of the highways...I guess not.
He recently said the overpasses were built too short for buses with Black and I think Hispanic people so they couldn't go to the beach. So maybe he doesn't know about the point you mentioned.
Reading through the comments, its hard to seriously tell if people are just trolling or they seriously believe and mocking the notion that an inanimate structure such as a highway is practicing racism instead of the people who designed and implemented it. Good ole strawman.
Excellent video, well done. I looked up a few vids on this topic and found people on one side or the other waving their team flag. It's very refreshing to hear someone speak on this who's clearly done the research and giving an honest and balanced perspective. This should be the norm on our controversial topics but sadly everything is tribal these days. Thanks and great job!
So they built through the cheapest, oldest, or most run-down neighborhoods that the vegetation is reclaiming, in all of those? Also for clarity Robert Moses was of the Hebrew race... and even moreso 'White flight' was driven by jewish realtors placing blacks into their communities for the purpose of driving sales in their Levittown style projects, for profit! It's always been bankers for profits, Levittown was infact led by jews, not that it matters beyond your placement of 'no Hebrew race', just that you are omitting worthwhile informative facts. Btw the whole 'blacks hair banned from pools' originates from blacks, many of whom were still sharecroppers or working jobs that made them physically dirty, would attempt to use the pools as public baths due to lack of running water, so they felt to keep the pools clean so it is was difference of lifestyles and another agitation for worthwhile separation. The hairstyle ban outlasted jim crow, because if you learn about how dreads are formed, they aren't natural to blacks, they simply form from not washing your hair for months on end. thats why homeless people or nature hippies have get them as well. if you learned about how blacks are coerced into using cancer causing hair chemicals to attain a White beauty standard, then you will also have learned they use different products overall to manage their hair and many don't routine rinse with water, they use oil to clean braids, dreads, and afros. Especially for perms like jerry curls. In water, this oil and other dirt will rub and rinse out of their hair and off into the public pool, the cost of routinely cleaning this out would potentially be enormous and routinely requiring the draining and closing off of the facility just to force integration, instead of building them their own, which there was many cities (mainly the areas in the South with actual black historic presence) at some point did have black swimming pools, Nashville had 7 just for blacks, but they still wanted the presence of White girls in bathing suits. If you want to discuss and present history atleast due the justice of understanding everyones perspective. Because as far as social amenities are concerned, the lack of genuine racial conscious that so many modern sociologist and city planners display is actually one of simple callous revenge seeking from ethnomasochist, rather than prosperity creation for all. They still want to force integration at the cost of social fabric. There is great correlation, that when public amenities were forcibly desegregated violence did random acts of violence did increase, go youtube 'brough gun to disney arrested' and see what shows up. It's funny you mention the 14th amendement without real insight or clarity either, it was indeed a suddenly newfound opinion of the 14th amendment, that was accepted by Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson, 80 years after the 14th amendment and it's EPA were written and agreed upon by the same congress that willfully chose to live and create racial covenant communities in their own towns up North. Most of the modern sociologist who dip their toes into this subject, don't have a genuine White perspective or one that goes beyond 'socio-economics' and 'system past', they bring nothing new to the table in their half done historic takes. There is a reason gentrifictioan is continuing, it has everything to do with the word itself, "gentry" literally means owning class- under nobility. In other words. The innercity neighborhoods that were diversity bombed, to drive White buyers in new Levittowns, are now returning from uncared for houses, decaying overgrown houses, and rental properties, into higher density inncer city housing, that isn't just a cheap hongkong style housing pod either. The modern sociologist and ethnomasochistic Whites who don't care to advocate for their own understanding of White strife, don't believe in trickle down economics but they literally believe in trickle over equity. That if you force the creation of rainbow neighborhoods. Everyone will equally prosper and benefit from the variety of class and ethnic economics. Gentry means ownership class, the innercities are now rentals and had very little real historic presence of nonWhites before the 1940's, so it is Whites rightfully reclaiming their historic city centers as well. @@ByronTang
Great video. Based on your findings it seems all kinds of people were affected: Scandinavian, Italian, Black, Latinos etc..... Seems like they just chose the neighborhoods where eminent domain would cost the least amount when they took over their property. It's always about the money.....
As a conservative I appreciate this video. Thank you for presenting it in a normal way instead of the typical flailing noise often used by those on the left. This has definitely helped me to see where the claim comes from and understand what the impact was.
Great video topic, and I think you proved your point well. With some more practice and development of your style you could do really well educating people here.
No way, I live in Sunset park Brooklyn, I never knew they built that highway right through the Scandinavian population that used to live here, now it's mostly Hispanic and Asian but man this is crazy !, Things aren't getting any easier here especially with the ongoing gentrification, pricing out many of the Residents. They even built roads cutting right through the Bronx, this is insane !
Those Racist Roads are called Parkways and Boulevards which were built in the early 1900s not 50 years ago and were built for Cars, Trucks are not allowed.
I am a road enthusist who just so happens to be black. I NEVER had problems with freeways at all and I NEVER saw freeways as a racist thing. I grew up with the Cincinnati freeways and I always loved riding up and down them in my dad's vehicles. I also loved looking at roadmaps, road building games, and freeway films for most of my life since I was 2 years old. Freeways have brought me joy for over 16 years and I use them to escape feelings of despair. It is a crying shame that freeways where used in evil ways to destroy communities of color and just ONLY serve white areas of cities. Freeways are used by everyone. And like I said, I am black and I am really passionate about highways. I never had an experience where a freeway ran me out of my neighborhood. With that being said though, I am upset that everything I love always has racism in its roots.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I really hope this perspective doesn't negatively impact the joy and passion that you have because there are still a lot of good things about freeways . Learning from the past helps us build a better tomorrow and nowadays there are some great projects around the country that are being done with a lot more inclusive community input.
Can't take the word of the enemy that the enemy isn't working towards your end. Even the "good" ones serve the purpose of getting you to let your guard down. Most genocides are soft genocides. No guns, no physical force. Weaponized infrastructure, slow pace, no tangible target to fight back against.
Yes and no because it complex. Yes because they did build the highways in poor neighborhoods. But they also closed down white towns and farm lands to build the highways.
If you're brain damaged, and you have no imagination or ability to visual what a "racist highway" could mean behind it LITERALLY being racist, just say that.
I can understand what you are describing, BUT most who lived in rural towns, on farms and owned rural businesses suffered greatly b/c of highway construction when they ran them through their properties and FORCED them out of their homes they grew up in. They also removed them when they came in and created the National Parks. Lets be totally truthful about the Highways and who ALSO suffered. It was 90% of Poor White Families who lost it all just b/c the govt wanted their land and homes to build the Highways. God help us all if this division continues. We have to stop the CONSTANT Political Race Baiting. I'm not saying that you are doing this, but whenever its time for another election they use the black community and the Black friends we have are sick of it, and I also left the Dem Party b/c they are destroying us with their policies. If everyone doesn't educate themselves prior to voting we are doomed. God bless you brother.
In this case however republicans are still not the ally, truth is both parties suck, and this is a case of classism not racism, and the republicans are still the greatest offender of classism, like this is an eisenhower project he’s talking about, so i hope your leaving of the dem party doesn’t mean joining the republicans
Goodness, I don't know what you did to make the trump-brigade come here to hate on you... Anyways, it's a good video, keep it up and don't let these idiots discourage you.
@@randy4443 Of course he didn't, there's nothing that conservatives like more than a nice strawman "Muh the left is saying that roads are racist, stupid left!!!" It's easier than arguing with facts
The people living today can never undue all the crimes of the past. We must learn from the past & more on. I mean, if we want to really right ancient wrongs, then everyone of European Heritage would need to go back to Europe & give the Native American tribes back their land. Italy would need to apologize to the Celts of Britainia & everyone of Anglo-Saxon heritage would need to go back to Denmark. France would need to change its name to Gaul go back where they came from. Human history can't be undone. Instead of blaiming people today for the sins of 1 to 2 centuries ago, society needs to move on.
You can't learn from the past without undoing the sins of the past, if you try to run away and downplay the amount of damage and fucked disparities you caused with past injustice, you are doomed to repeat it again. Numerous Black and immigrant communities that were bustling and thriving were burnt to the ground to the make highways to serve the needs of suburbs that were initially only built for white families, this is a fact. The ONLY way to correct for this would be by removing the sections of highways running through U.S. cities, and rebuilding the communities, and thus the wealth of minority neighborhoods. There is no "moving on" without addressing the hell we have forced POC in this country to endure, the country will NEVER be allowed to reach its full potential when we have entire races of people stuck in perpetual, cyclical poverty cause by racist policy enacted only 60 years ago.
I don’t have much experience, only around 500 hours of playing a city building game.. but when I’m upgrading my city and adding in highway networks I’m not gonna put them through a neighborhood, it’s gonna go between or on the edges as to not split up the neighborhood. Unfortunate that the neighborhoods were already segregated by race that it seemed that they were built as barriers. Perhaps they were but 🤷♂️
You raise a good point! There was a lot of highway building and it’s hard to quantify how much was from pure racism, especially when good documentation didn’t exist of how things played out. By the way, is the city-building game you played Cities Skyline?
I’ve played it before and I may go back to it. I agree it’s a great game. I used to play a lot of the Sim City games before. My next video may actually be a gaming video but I’ll probably start with a smaller game.
The black asphalt road is against, the white cement road. They both hate the grey and brown unimproved road except for the red dirt road that only stay in it's lane, while the yellow line give guidance. Let's Go Brandon! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao dude who taught those people because highways were created for the military first off they weren't even meant for regular citizens they were originally created for the military so they could be able to move equipment around and so there could be places for like tanks and things that are a huge vehicles to drive around if there was a war within our country so that way it's easier for them to access these vehicles and be able to use them. And it was eventually changed to allow regular citizens to use the highways that a way we can get to other places much easier.
U can see the segregation now in our highway system that President Eisenhower created in 1956, the transportation planners at that time ripped through the nation’s urban areas with freeways that was intentional done to separate white neighborhoods from Black neighborhoods just in 20yrs of highway construction more than 1 million people had lost their homes nationwide most of them were black nd poorer ppl no surprise there lol. A perfect example would be Chicago we hear about the gun violence nd death there all the time on the news but here's a fun fact u can look up ur self the north side of Chicago crime rate is about 77% lower than the national average making it one of the most safest places in the whole entire country to be in but, now look west nd u can see the crime rate is about 410% higher then the national average making it one of the most violent nd dangerous places to be in nd guess what there only 9 miles apart 😆 that's basically a 30 min. ride on the highway nd bam ur in one of the most safest places in the country to be in the north side of Chicago but 30 mins on the highway going the opposite way tho nd bam ur in one of the most violent nd dangerous city in the US to be in lol see the problem? Same with New York, Boston ,Memphis ,Providence, New Jersey, California, ECT ECT across the whole US same thing nd same patterns highways nd infrastructure separating groups of ppl mostly by races nd classes on purpose it's the same way they fund schools wealthier the neighborhood more property taxes they can use to fund their schools, state funding is harder to explain nd usually federal money is spent on lower income neighborhoods for their school's but that's peanuts in comparison but that's how they designed the system nd infrastructure in America we see today it was done on purpose to segregate nd keep the poor dumb nd uneducated while helping the richer kids with better education wich means better outcomes in their future see the pattern yet
It seems more like the fact that cities themselves being cultural melting pots and having little space to build infrastructure. You're bound to cut through some diverse neighborhood if it gets in the way. What people do instead these days is build things underground so they do minimal disruption to local communities. Although that is pretty expensive.
Definitely. There is always resistance if you try to build anything in an already developed area. It looks like this administration is going to put a lot more emphasis on being more sensitive to how it's done. I agree that a lot of possibilities open up if we could build more infrastructure underground!
It could be seen that way and perhaps that was the case some of the time, but in the video we see communities that were made up of a majority Black and/or poor people were often the ones that got destroyed-and that was very much intentional
No, they arent and cant be. I build roads for a living in Houston, Texas. We build roads based on a multitude of factors; convenience being a key factor. If a highway needs to be built from south to north, we dont care what race of people live where. We get the contract, then build from south to north.
The same rules and procedures that exists today didn’t existed in the 50-60’s. The NEPA law that governs road building today was enacted in the 70s. I’m a civil/transportation engineer and can tell you that convenience is not factor. Engineering, constructibility, costs and freeway operations are. In today’s time add environmental considerations and safety., A clear example, I-95 en Broward County, FL was built over a black cemetery.
@@Badgersito Spencer Highway in Pasadena TX was built over my families land and had nothing to do with race. Also, what part of Broward county was this in?
@@USMC-Goforth “oh this ONE highway built wasn’t based on racism so none of them were. And there is no racism in building roads today so racism must not have existed 50 years ago.” Please think critically about your opinions before you utter them
It's both. Moses, the city planner and mayor of new york, was incredibly racist and xenophobic and would deliberately build highways in minority neighbourhoods just to displace them.
Interstate… was deliberately plotted along a winding route in the late 1950s to serve, in the words of Mayor Bill Hartsfield, as ‘the boundary between the white and Negro communities on the west side of town. Yes some classism but I suspect there would have been more sympathy towards the demolishing of homes if those neighborhoods were instead filled with poor, Anglo-Saxons. I believe their approach would have been less heavy handed and compensation would have been higher. Understand that if the government takes your house, and gives you the market value in return, you’re still operating at a loss. It costs money and effort to relocate and resettle beyond that of just housing. Not to mention the destruction of businesses that previously served as an economic hub. The sum of the parts is much more than just houses.
So all "races" were affected. You definitely put a left spin on it and of course god forbid we stop progress for someone's feeling. My grandparents "lost" their home due to a major highway and not only were able to buy a new house but both retired due to the money they received. Black neighborhood? Or just a neighborhood.
Don’t play dumb. The vast majority of these freeways were intentionally built through African American neighborhoods. Look at any city in Texas or the south
If you have any argument here, it may be "classism" ( I can't believe I used an a ism) at best. Fact. The country was settled (yeah I know, stolen to some) by western Europeans For centuries there mostly folks of Western European decent in the U.S. Most of the minority groups stated in this video did not arrive until the early 1900s or later. These immigrants were poor, and poorer for sometime doubt. Black folks living in the country at this time were poorer too.
I have seen how incredibly loose the definition for racism is now and so that being said I truly feel your argument has no merit considering there is no hard definition for racism now! it would appear to most if not all observers that racism is now 100% based on your political party and affiliations not by actions, words or intent. LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!
@@shockwavetm Interstate 20, that connects with I-75 and I-85 in Atlanta’s center, was deliberately plotted along a winding route in the late 1950s to serve, in the words of Mayor Bill Hartsfield, as ‘the boundary between the white and Negro communities on the west side of town. If that’s not racism, I don’t know wtf is
To act like the highway system wouldn’t have been implemented through our countries major cities in a similar way if there were no minorities at all is just ludicrous. Any country needs modern highways threw the nerve centers, I.e. major cities, to continue to develop. So called “White flight” didn’t begin until the 50s and 60s. That means there were still a ton of white people living in inner cities and like Byron pointed out many of European descent were displaced. Many rural white people were displaced as well. This is just more buzzword speech using anecdotal evidence to further divide the US and try to uplift one political party. Roman roads were continued to be used for centuries if not longer after the fall and no one said hey now these roads were built by war-mongering slavers! We’re such a weak, spoiled, crazy society 😩
"Any country needs modern highways threw the nerve centers, I.e. major cities, to continue to develop." This is the most braindead, idiotic, self evidently incorrect thing I've ever come out of the mouth a person. If this was the case, every single major city in Europe would have done the same following their destruction in WW2, but didn't. If this was the case, cities like NYC, Chicago and especially Detroit would have never seen massive population drops following the construction of highways right through their city centers. If this was the case, there wouldn't be COUNTLESS examples of Freeway removal all across the world where cities voluntarily tore down highways built through them, and replacing them with greenspace, new neighborhoods, schools, businesses and hundreds of new desperately needed housing units. The construction of highways through city centers lead to the massive loss in housing stock available in the city proper, which then lead to creation of even more slums that these highways sought to get rid of. They lead to huge population declines as the white population fled to the outer suburbs, furthering the segregation of U.S. metro areas. They destroyed any semblance of beauty, walkability, of US cities, and the ability for these cities to be served by public transportation. They lead to the wholesale destruction of vibrant, bustling and thriving black and immigrant communities, locking them into perpetual and cyclical poverty and causing a nosedive in homeownership. All of these negative effects are just the tip of the iceberg, the fact of the matter is that the building of highways through cities was a TERRIBLE experiment, and it provably made cities worse places to be. Stop building highways through our cities, and use the land for something more valuable.
Did you not watch the video ? Like do you not realize these highways can be used to marginalize and segregate communities from a city and they still exist today. Also the homes in those neighborhoods are valued less so those minority families can't even gain as much money as a white family would for having a house where there wasn't an interstate. Like take ur politics aside and actually understand the reality that people face
@@domsolanke1619 I watched it. I’m just questioning the rhetoric. You seem to be incapable of questioning a narrative that you like. You should do better.
@@domsolanke1619 Did you read what I actually said or were you WAY TOO EXCITED to regurgitate the things that get you validation online? Because you didn’t address my point. And my point kinda supersedes the cherry picking in the video.
@@CaptainTae please show ur take was more than one brain cell worth of thought because it sure seems like it ain't much. There is clear evidence to show infrastructure can be divisive. But yeah highway make car go vroom right ?
@@CaptainTae I love how you say its cherry picking when literally thousands of people live in these affected neighborhoods for decades and still continues to do to this day and the interstate infrastructure is one of the biggest projects in this nations history. And on top of this there tons more cases of this use of infrastructure to divide and segregate in almost every major American city so yeah dude you haven't superceded anything. You really haven't thought ur point.
As a traffic engineer, if you think highways can be racist, you should give up your PE license and leave engineering to people who don’t live in a 🤡 world.
Sounds like they replaced shit neighborhoods with highways that bettered the community. Makes sense to me. 750 families had to move from a shit neighborhood to I would assume a better one. Next time though they should tear down booming business areas and high end new built homes for highways. Makes more sense that way.
The fact that you called EVERY SINGLE Neighborhood destroyed by highways "shit neighborhoods" is so unbelievably callous, classist and racist that I'm not even sure how aware you are of your lack of humanity. People who had their homes destroyed were left HOMELESS AND BROKE, they were never relocated to the "better neighborhoods" outside of the city being served by the highway. Not that you give a fuck about their lives anyways.
When Buttigieg said that, racism was built into the highways, I thought people would understand it was a metaphor meaning that racism play a factor into the construction of the highways...I guess not.
why not speak literally
He recently said the overpasses were built too short for buses with Black and I think Hispanic people so they couldn't go to the beach. So maybe he doesn't know about the point you mentioned.
Those roads are called Parkways and don't allow Trucks He is a Fool.
@@ThomasH7 yeah robert Moses did that in new york
Reading through the comments, its hard to seriously tell if people are just trolling or they seriously believe and mocking the notion that an inanimate structure such as a highway is practicing racism instead of the people who designed and implemented it. Good ole strawman.
As a black man, I didn’t know this history, but I feel like I didn’t want to know because it’s just another burden to carry as I travel the roads.
is it tho?
Ignorance is bliss
the roads you use may not have this history
Excellent video, well done. I looked up a few vids on this topic and found people on one side or the other waving their team flag. It's very refreshing to hear someone speak on this who's clearly done the research and giving an honest and balanced perspective. This should be the norm on our controversial topics but sadly everything is tribal these days. Thanks and great job!
Thank you!
So they built through the cheapest, oldest, or most run-down neighborhoods that the vegetation is reclaiming, in all of those? Also for clarity Robert Moses was of the Hebrew race... and even moreso 'White flight' was driven by jewish realtors placing blacks into their communities for the purpose of driving sales in their Levittown style projects, for profit! It's always been bankers for profits, Levittown was infact led by jews, not that it matters beyond your placement of 'no Hebrew race', just that you are omitting worthwhile informative facts. Btw the whole 'blacks hair banned from pools' originates from blacks, many of whom were still sharecroppers or working jobs that made them physically dirty, would attempt to use the pools as public baths due to lack of running water, so they felt to keep the pools clean so it is was difference of lifestyles and another agitation for worthwhile separation. The hairstyle ban outlasted jim crow, because if you learn about how dreads are formed, they aren't natural to blacks, they simply form from not washing your hair for months on end. thats why homeless people or nature hippies have get them as well. if you learned about how blacks are coerced into using cancer causing hair chemicals to attain a White beauty standard, then you will also have learned they use different products overall to manage their hair and many don't routine rinse with water, they use oil to clean braids, dreads, and afros. Especially for perms like jerry curls. In water, this oil and other dirt will rub and rinse out of their hair and off into the public pool, the cost of routinely cleaning this out would potentially be enormous and routinely requiring the draining and closing off of the facility just to force integration, instead of building them their own, which there was many cities (mainly the areas in the South with actual black historic presence) at some point did have black swimming pools, Nashville had 7 just for blacks, but they still wanted the presence of White girls in bathing suits. If you want to discuss and present history atleast due the justice of understanding everyones perspective. Because as far as social amenities are concerned, the lack of genuine racial conscious that so many modern sociologist and city planners display is actually one of simple callous revenge seeking from ethnomasochist, rather than prosperity creation for all. They still want to force integration at the cost of social fabric. There is great correlation, that when public amenities were forcibly desegregated violence did random acts of violence did increase, go youtube 'brough gun to disney arrested' and see what shows up. It's funny you mention the 14th amendement without real insight or clarity either, it was indeed a suddenly newfound opinion of the 14th amendment, that was accepted by Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson, 80 years after the 14th amendment and it's EPA were written and agreed upon by the same congress that willfully chose to live and create racial covenant communities in their own towns up North. Most of the modern sociologist who dip their toes into this subject, don't have a genuine White perspective or one that goes beyond 'socio-economics' and 'system past', they bring nothing new to the table in their half done historic takes. There is a reason gentrifictioan is continuing, it has everything to do with the word itself, "gentry" literally means owning class- under nobility. In other words. The innercity neighborhoods that were diversity bombed, to drive White buyers in new Levittowns, are now returning from uncared for houses, decaying overgrown houses, and rental properties, into higher density inncer city housing, that isn't just a cheap hongkong style housing pod either. The modern sociologist and ethnomasochistic Whites who don't care to advocate for their own understanding of White strife, don't believe in trickle down economics but they literally believe in trickle over equity. That if you force the creation of rainbow neighborhoods. Everyone will equally prosper and benefit from the variety of class and ethnic economics. Gentry means ownership class, the innercities are now rentals and had very little real historic presence of nonWhites before the 1940's, so it is Whites rightfully reclaiming their historic city centers as well. @@ByronTang
Great video. Based on your findings it seems all kinds of people were affected: Scandinavian, Italian, Black, Latinos etc..... Seems like they just chose the neighborhoods where eminent domain would cost the least amount when they took over their property. It's always about the money.....
As a conservative I appreciate this video.
Thank you for presenting it in a normal way instead of the typical flailing noise often used by those on the left.
This has definitely helped me to see where the claim comes from and understand what the impact was.
Glad it was helpful!
If only these roadways existed during colonial times...then it wouldn't be racist.
Wow, everything is racist today 🙄. My grandparents dealt with real racism. So tired of that word being used in every situation.
Great video topic, and I think you proved your point well. With some more practice and development of your style you could do really well educating people here.
Thank you! I'm definitely trying to learn and improve with every video.
No way, I live in Sunset park Brooklyn, I never knew they built that highway right through the Scandinavian population that used to live here, now it's mostly Hispanic and Asian but man this is crazy !, Things aren't getting any easier here especially with the ongoing gentrification, pricing out many of the Residents. They even built roads cutting right through the Bronx, this is insane !
Great insight!
Just when I thought things couldn't get more stupid! 🤣
Sounds pretty accurate of history and society in America here is more truth to that reality ua-cam.com/video/uXKw8jIooO0/v-deo.html
Those Racist Roads are called Parkways and Boulevards which were built in the early 1900s not 50 years ago and were built for Cars, Trucks are not allowed.
I am a road enthusist who just so happens to be black. I NEVER had problems with freeways at all and I NEVER saw freeways as a racist thing. I grew up with the Cincinnati freeways and I always loved riding up and down them in my dad's vehicles. I also loved looking at roadmaps, road building games, and freeway films for most of my life since I was 2 years old. Freeways have brought me joy for over 16 years and I use them to escape feelings of despair. It is a crying shame that freeways where used in evil ways to destroy communities of color and just ONLY serve white areas of cities. Freeways are used by everyone. And like I said, I am black and I am really passionate about highways. I never had an experience where a freeway ran me out of my neighborhood. With that being said though, I am upset that everything I love always has racism in its roots.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I really hope this perspective doesn't negatively impact the joy and passion that you have because there are still a lot of good things about freeways . Learning from the past helps us build a better tomorrow and nowadays there are some great projects around the country that are being done with a lot more inclusive community input.
Racist white liberals feel the need to speak for blacks.
He’s not being serious pal, this video is lunacy
@@ryansalvia8394 dead serious. Buttplug just answered a question about it yesterday.
Can't take the word of the enemy that the enemy isn't working towards your end. Even the "good" ones serve the purpose of getting you to let your guard down. Most genocides are soft genocides. No guns, no physical force. Weaponized infrastructure, slow pace, no tangible target to fight back against.
Great content, wonderful delivery. Thank you.
Thank you, happy that you liked it!
Yes and no because it complex. Yes because they did build the highways in poor neighborhoods. But they also closed down white towns and farm lands to build the highways.
All hail The Fart Factory Potato in Chief! LET'S GO BRANDON "C'mon '22"
Sleepy joe>trump
@@TN-ju4ro OK, Now THAT'S FUNNY AS HELL!
@@zrocksu5492 Go Bannon. Sorry Steve
Next up - Air is racist, dirt is racist, wind is racist, etc...
Highways are racist buddy thy racially segregted people look at Richmond.
@@gavinproduction7433 yeah but the road itself isnt racist. its concrete
@@NobodyssGirl well yes it’s the urban planning. Not the road.
If you're brain damaged, and you have no imagination or ability to visual what a "racist highway" could mean behind it LITERALLY being racist, just say that.
I can understand what you are describing, BUT most who lived in rural towns, on farms and owned rural businesses suffered greatly b/c of highway construction when they ran them through their properties and FORCED them out of their homes they grew up in. They also removed them when they came in and created the National Parks. Lets be totally truthful about the Highways and who ALSO suffered. It was 90% of Poor White Families who lost it all just b/c the govt wanted their land and homes to build the Highways. God help us all if this division continues. We have to stop the CONSTANT Political Race Baiting. I'm not saying that you are doing this, but whenever its time for another election they use the black community and the Black friends we have are sick of it, and I also left the Dem Party b/c they are destroying us with their policies. If everyone doesn't educate themselves prior to voting we are doomed. God bless you brother.
In this case however republicans are still not the ally, truth is both parties suck, and this is a case of classism not racism, and the republicans are still the greatest offender of classism, like this is an eisenhower project he’s talking about, so i hope your leaving of the dem party doesn’t mean joining the republicans
It's classism
It's got white line
Goodness, I don't know what you did to make the trump-brigade come here to hate on you...
Anyways, it's a good video, keep it up and don't let these idiots discourage you.
Thank you, I really appreciate the words of encouragement!
No
I know a guy who is a contractor and he only sells racist concrete. It is true. I said it. We'll I read it on Google. It has to be true.
lol
maybe watch the video..
@New Life New Rules you guys watch the video?
@@randy4443 Of course he didn't, there's nothing that conservatives like more than a nice strawman "Muh the left is saying that roads are racist, stupid left!!!" It's easier than arguing with facts
The people living today can never undue all the crimes of the past. We must learn from the past & more on. I mean, if we want to really right ancient wrongs, then everyone of European Heritage would need to go back to Europe & give the Native American tribes back their land. Italy would need to apologize to the Celts of Britainia & everyone of Anglo-Saxon heritage would need to go back to Denmark. France would need to change its name to Gaul go back where they came from. Human history can't be undone. Instead of blaiming people today for the sins of 1 to 2 centuries ago, society needs to move on.
You can't learn from the past without undoing the sins of the past, if you try to run away and downplay the amount of damage and fucked disparities you caused with past injustice, you are doomed to repeat it again. Numerous Black and immigrant communities that were bustling and thriving were burnt to the ground to the make highways to serve the needs of suburbs that were initially only built for white families, this is a fact. The ONLY way to correct for this would be by removing the sections of highways running through U.S. cities, and rebuilding the communities, and thus the wealth of minority neighborhoods.
There is no "moving on" without addressing the hell we have forced POC in this country to endure, the country will NEVER be allowed to reach its full potential when we have entire races of people stuck in perpetual, cyclical poverty cause by racist policy enacted only 60 years ago.
Highways were built in areas of poverty. It wasn’t targeting blacks people this is so ridiculous
And the poorest areas happened to be minority communities. ua-cam.com/video/e68CoE70Mk8/v-deo.html
Area of poverty that happened to be black stop gaslighting.
@@gavinproduction7433 it’s not all black stop being a clown.
@@garden0fstone736 yes it was do your research...
@@gavinproduction7433 yeah it was completely black. Good one. Think for yourself for a change
I don’t have much experience, only around 500 hours of playing a city building game.. but when I’m upgrading my city and adding in highway networks I’m not gonna put them through a neighborhood, it’s gonna go between or on the edges as to not split up the neighborhood. Unfortunate that the neighborhoods were already segregated by race that it seemed that they were built as barriers. Perhaps they were but 🤷♂️
You raise a good point! There was a lot of highway building and it’s hard to quantify how much was from pure racism, especially when good documentation didn’t exist of how things played out. By the way, is the city-building game you played Cities Skyline?
@@ByronTang yeah it was, lots of fun if you haven’t tried it yet. Lots of mods for it too so u can have a lot more freedom
I’ve played it before and I may go back to it. I agree it’s a great game. I used to play a lot of the Sim City games before. My next video may actually be a gaming video but I’ll probably start with a smaller game.
Citites Skylines love that game my highways circles the city.
The black asphalt road is against, the white cement road. They both hate the grey and brown unimproved road except for the red dirt road that only stay in it's lane, while the yellow line give guidance. Let's Go Brandon! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao dude who taught those people because highways were created for the military first off they weren't even meant for regular citizens they were originally created for the military so they could be able to move equipment around and so there could be places for like tanks and things that are a huge vehicles to drive around if there was a war within our country so that way it's easier for them to access these vehicles and be able to use them.
And it was eventually changed to allow regular citizens to use the highways that a way we can get to other places much easier.
U can see the segregation now in our highway system that President Eisenhower created in 1956, the transportation planners at that time ripped through the nation’s urban areas with freeways that was intentional done to separate white neighborhoods from Black neighborhoods just in 20yrs of highway construction more than 1 million people had lost their homes nationwide most of them were black nd poorer ppl no surprise there lol. A perfect example would be Chicago we hear about the gun violence nd death there all the time on the news but here's a fun fact u can look up ur self the north side of Chicago crime rate is about 77% lower than the national average making it one of the most safest places in the whole entire country to be in but, now look west nd u can see the crime rate is about 410% higher then the national average making it one of the most violent nd dangerous places to be in nd guess what there only 9 miles apart 😆 that's basically a 30 min. ride on the highway nd bam ur in one of the most safest places in the country to be in the north side of Chicago but 30 mins on the highway going the opposite way tho nd bam ur in one of the most violent nd dangerous city in the US to be in lol see the problem? Same with New York, Boston ,Memphis ,Providence, New Jersey, California, ECT ECT across the whole US same thing nd same patterns highways nd infrastructure separating groups of ppl mostly by races nd classes on purpose it's the same way they fund schools wealthier the neighborhood more property taxes they can use to fund their schools, state funding is harder to explain nd usually federal money is spent on lower income neighborhoods for their school's but that's peanuts in comparison but that's how they designed the system nd infrastructure in America we see today it was done on purpose to segregate nd keep the poor dumb nd uneducated while helping the richer kids with better education wich means better outcomes in their future see the pattern yet
It seems more like the fact that cities themselves being cultural melting pots and having little space to build infrastructure. You're bound to cut through some diverse neighborhood if it gets in the way.
What people do instead these days is build things underground so they do minimal disruption to local communities. Although that is pretty expensive.
Definitely. There is always resistance if you try to build anything in an already developed area. It looks like this administration is going to put a lot more emphasis on being more sensitive to how it's done. I agree that a lot of possibilities open up if we could build more infrastructure underground!
This happened NATION WIDE.
It could be seen that way and perhaps that was the case some of the time, but in the video we see communities that were made up of a majority Black and/or poor people were often the ones that got destroyed-and that was very much intentional
Another great video of yours!!!
Thank you! I really appreciate it!!!
No, they arent and cant be. I build roads for a living in Houston, Texas. We build roads based on a multitude of factors; convenience being a key factor. If a highway needs to be built from south to north, we dont care what race of people live where. We get the contract, then build from south to north.
How disappointing. I was hoping we had at least one. I wanted to drive on it.
@@DrMerle-gw4wj a racist road? Lol
The same rules and procedures that exists today didn’t existed in the 50-60’s. The NEPA law that governs road building today was enacted in the 70s. I’m a civil/transportation engineer and can tell you that convenience is not factor. Engineering, constructibility, costs and freeway operations are. In today’s time add environmental considerations and safety., A clear example, I-95 en Broward County, FL was built over a black cemetery.
@@Badgersito Spencer Highway in Pasadena TX was built over my families land and had nothing to do with race. Also, what part of Broward county was this in?
@@USMC-Goforth “oh this ONE highway built wasn’t based on racism so none of them were. And there is no racism in building roads today so racism must not have existed 50 years ago.”
Please think critically about your opinions before you utter them
So basically, classism was built into (some) highways, not racism. Sad our politicians have to divide people by talking about race instead.
It's both. Moses, the city planner and mayor of new york, was incredibly racist and xenophobic and would deliberately build highways in minority neighbourhoods just to displace them.
Interstate… was deliberately plotted along a winding route in the late 1950s to serve, in the words of Mayor Bill Hartsfield, as ‘the boundary between the white and Negro communities on the west side of town.
Yes some classism but I suspect there would have been more sympathy towards the demolishing of homes if those neighborhoods were instead filled with poor, Anglo-Saxons. I believe their approach would have been less heavy handed and compensation would have been higher. Understand that if the government takes your house, and gives you the market value in return, you’re still operating at a loss. It costs money and effort to relocate and resettle beyond that of just housing. Not to mention the destruction of businesses that previously served as an economic hub. The sum of the parts is much more than just houses.
Try overlaying a redlining map and a highway map
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever herd in my life! They need to throw away there fentonal pipe!
So all "races" were affected. You definitely put a left spin on it and of course god forbid we stop progress for someone's feeling. My grandparents "lost" their home due to a major highway and not only were able to buy a new house but both retired due to the money they received. Black neighborhood? Or just a neighborhood.
Don’t play dumb. The vast majority of these freeways were intentionally built through African American neighborhoods. Look at any city in Texas or the south
If you have any argument here, it may be "classism" ( I can't believe I used an a ism) at best. Fact. The country was settled (yeah I know, stolen to some) by western Europeans For centuries there mostly folks of Western European decent in the U.S. Most of the minority groups stated in this video did not arrive until the early 1900s or later. These immigrants were poor, and poorer for sometime doubt. Black folks living in the country at this time were poorer too.
I have seen how incredibly loose the definition for racism is now and so that being said I truly feel your argument has no merit considering there is no hard definition for racism now!
it would appear to most if not all observers that racism is now 100% based on your political party and affiliations not by actions, words or intent. LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!
Maybe watch the actual video, typical conservatives only taking things at face value
POLICTICS SUCK!!
You shouldn’t take so much pride in being stupid.
@@TN-ju4ro he's right that definition of racism becomes loose nowadays. What's your rebuttal then?
@@shockwavetm Interstate 20, that connects with I-75 and I-85 in Atlanta’s center, was deliberately plotted along a winding route in the late 1950s to serve, in the words of Mayor Bill Hartsfield, as ‘the boundary between the white and Negro communities on the west side of town.
If that’s not racism, I don’t know wtf is
What a waste of my time
More race bating
It not its facts...
No it's not facts you morron
Lmfao when a city building roads they look for the cheapest land they have to buy and pay for i may add. Its simple supply demand.
To act like the highway system wouldn’t have been implemented through our countries major cities in a similar way if there were no minorities at all is just ludicrous. Any country needs modern highways threw the nerve centers, I.e. major cities, to continue to develop. So called “White flight” didn’t begin until the 50s and 60s. That means there were still a ton of white people living in inner cities and like Byron pointed out many of European descent were displaced. Many rural white people were displaced as well. This is just more buzzword speech using anecdotal evidence to further divide the US and try to uplift one political party. Roman roads were continued to be used for centuries if not longer after the fall and no one said hey now these roads were built by war-mongering slavers! We’re such a weak, spoiled, crazy society 😩
Stop with your truth and common sense.
"Any country needs modern highways threw the nerve centers, I.e. major cities, to continue to develop."
This is the most braindead, idiotic, self evidently incorrect thing I've ever come out of the mouth a person.
If this was the case, every single major city in Europe would have done the same following their destruction in WW2, but didn't.
If this was the case, cities like NYC, Chicago and especially Detroit would have never seen massive population drops following the construction of highways right through their city centers.
If this was the case, there wouldn't be COUNTLESS examples of Freeway removal all across the world where cities voluntarily tore down highways built through them, and replacing them with greenspace, new neighborhoods, schools, businesses and hundreds of new desperately needed housing units.
The construction of highways through city centers lead to the massive loss in housing stock available in the city proper, which then lead to creation of even more slums that these highways sought to get rid of. They lead to huge population declines as the white population fled to the outer suburbs, furthering the segregation of U.S. metro areas. They destroyed any semblance of beauty, walkability, of US cities, and the ability for these cities to be served by public transportation. They lead to the wholesale destruction of vibrant, bustling and thriving black and immigrant communities, locking them into perpetual and cyclical poverty and causing a nosedive in homeownership.
All of these negative effects are just the tip of the iceberg, the fact of the matter is that the building of highways through cities was a TERRIBLE experiment, and it provably made cities worse places to be. Stop building highways through our cities, and use the land for something more valuable.
The thing that allows you to get from point a to point b faster is…. Racist.
Sure.
That’s not insanely stupid.
Did you not watch the video ? Like do you not realize these highways can be used to marginalize and segregate communities from a city and they still exist today. Also the homes in those neighborhoods are valued less so those minority families can't even gain as much money as a white family would for having a house where there wasn't an interstate. Like take ur politics aside and actually understand the reality that people face
@@domsolanke1619 I watched it. I’m just questioning the rhetoric. You seem to be incapable of questioning a narrative that you like.
You should do better.
@@domsolanke1619 Did you read what I actually said or were you WAY TOO EXCITED to regurgitate the things that get you validation online?
Because you didn’t address my point. And my point kinda supersedes the cherry picking in the video.
@@CaptainTae please show ur take was more than one brain cell worth of thought because it sure seems like it ain't much. There is clear evidence to show infrastructure can be divisive. But yeah highway make car go vroom right ?
@@CaptainTae I love how you say its cherry picking when literally thousands of people live in these affected neighborhoods for decades and still continues to do to this day and the interstate infrastructure is one of the biggest projects in this nations history. And on top of this there tons more cases of this use of infrastructure to divide and segregate in almost every major American city so yeah dude you haven't superceded anything. You really haven't thought ur point.
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What a good clone trooper. Clone trooper chip activated
As a traffic engineer, if you think highways can be racist, you should give up your PE license and leave engineering to people who don’t live in a 🤡 world.
Railroad track 🛤👣 must be racist too smh
Sounds like they replaced shit neighborhoods with highways that bettered the community. Makes sense to me. 750 families had to move from a shit neighborhood to I would assume a better one. Next time though they should tear down booming business areas and high end new built homes for highways. Makes more sense that way.
Highways don’t better communities
The fact that you called EVERY SINGLE Neighborhood destroyed by highways "shit neighborhoods" is so unbelievably callous, classist and racist that I'm not even sure how aware you are of your lack of humanity.
People who had their homes destroyed were left HOMELESS AND BROKE, they were never relocated to the "better neighborhoods" outside of the city being served by the highway. Not that you give a fuck about their lives anyways.
Mr. Tang , I'm going to ask you one time, SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND TAKE DOWN THIS VIDEO OF RACE HUSTLE.
It's facts do your resserch troll before talking.
It's classism