Have to say, Roy Wood Jr. is an excellent moderator/interviewer. Keeping things moving, getting everyone involved. Obviously funny and all that...but hats off to the interview technique.
I used to live in a predominantly minority area. We asked for a traffic light at a four way intersection at the entrance to the neighborhood. We were told no light could be put in until there were at least 13 fatalities first.
In Tampa FL they ran the main interstate 275 thru the Black and Latino communities. It cuts through the cigar factories, workers lived within walking distance but the interstate also brought down the value of the mansions built by minority cigar factory owners. This is still happening today. They have added a new interstate connection that doesn't interrupt South tampa (the Beverly hills of tampa) this interstate is about 50 ft off the ground and has tolls. It is strategic in its design because you can't see it as it is hidden behind buildings up high. 2 years ago they discovered that the city built a housing project on a cemetery of affluent local black leaders. This is now being corrected, however it is nauseating it even happened.
I remember when I moved to Tulsa, OK (had to wasn't my choice) and at some point actually read about the Tulsa Massacre. I was astonished as I was sickened by the event that I had NEVER heard of it prior to moving there. I worked in Lakeland and drove through Ybor often, wondering about the history of the place and the old cigar factories that had flourished there in years prior. I wasn't quite young enough anymore to enjoy the Ybor nightlife so only drove through it a few times during the day just to take it all in. Now I understand what really happened. While not as atrocious an event as the Tulsa Massacre, the fact it just happened there, and so many other places in the country, just hurts.
Where the rubber hit the road, you're spot on Andre' they, white America, always put themselves first, no doubt about that fact. Now they pretend as if there's no truth on the way they conduct themselves in the past, present and future. White America don't want/need to feel uncomfortable while discussing their history of out right white supremacy over people of African descent but yet they always speak of how great America is. Now they want to "Make America Great Again". Well white Americans who think this way, what do you really mean when shouting this slogan? Don't hide behind your true feelings I'd rather you express who you truly are and stop hiding when the spot light is shining for all to see your true colors, it's a cowardice act when you get busted for being real.
Oh they care and see to it that you get nothing but empty promises, and The delaying games and other tactics to confuse and hinder any progress for black people
I loved this segment. My family in Shorter AL actually had the high way get built where their home was. In Chicago where I live the Dan Ryan expressway is in the exact spot where classmates families lived. North Beverly neighborhood is a maze to drive through because of dead end and one way streets. These things happen when I was a child and I'm 74 years old any this is the 1st time it's been explained so eloquently. Thank you for this
They are making teaching usa’s racial history illegal in the schools. Comedians are going to be the only way history will be learned by the next generation. And it is even FUN to learn! Thanks to John Stewart and the Daily Show and the people than came from there.
Roy, I really appreciated this segment of discussion joined by a panel of two eminent experts on issues impacting black people through racial phobia, wealth inequality, even white rage which is just a "scratch on the surface" considering the number of ongoing problems suffered by black people. Many more discussions of this magnitude needs to be held frequently to strategize and to mobilize our people to the call of action. I fear any less deployment toward the topics discussed won't be enough to challenge the rapidly emergence of white preeminence in America. Continue the great work.
This is part of the curriculum in undergrad courses in environmental studies and geography. It’s sad how few people know this. It is part of our physical history. We can see it around us. To think there are those like Tucker Carlson who can deny documented history on TV is beyond me.
@@Dideeeee Adverts, talk shows, documentaries, bombard audiences. Such information should be continuously shoved in the faces of audiences until we all begin to act in a proper and humane manner.
And half Swiss like Trevor Noah. International mixed up person that is treated like a foreigner in their countries. Gives you a lot of perspective, especially when you have to take a flight halfway across the world to see ½ your family, then another to see the other half. So I have a hard time feeling White when I’ve been racially profiled in my mother’s country and self-censor my background and don’t use my father’s language out in public.
The bus to the mall story happened in Buffalo NY. When they built the new mall out in Amherst I believe they didn’t want people coming from the city to the new mall via public transportation. They basically wanted to keep it an upscale mall. So when they did the zoning they didn’t allow the buses to actually have stops on mall property- they couldn’t actually go into the parking lots. The bus stop was across the “street” which was actually a six lane highway(it wasn’t the black side of the highway as she said- the mall was in the burbs). But in Buffalo it ummmm….snows a lot. And when it snows they plough the roads and pile the snow along the sides of the street and it often blocks sidewalks and roadway entrances. So when when the bus stopped they let people out into the street and she was trying to cross and got hit by a car. They initially wanted to sue the driver as the town claimed passengers were allowed to be let off the bus when it was unsafe by the lawyers for the family wanted to sue the city because they were the ones who had the zoning ordinance which prevented buses from having stops in the parking lot. Johnny Cochran was the lawyer who sued the city and they won.
Like Trump, he mouths equality, yet his actions don't stand up to his words... For instance, Blacks whom for whatever reason couldn't complete their education and therefore ended up for a decade or more not even making 20,000 a year or even less very often, are stuck with student loans that just don't stay the same, they collect interest making it harder to pay off the loan... Many have had to take survival jobs, then Corporate America judges their worth based on that survival job's income... It's time for Black Wallstreet's rebirth... It's time that WE start manufacturing our own products, to include cars, apartment complex, protected farms, large grocery stores, painters, masons, electricians, carpenters, doctors, as well as politicians... This is a MUST!!! Not just something WE dream of, but make it a reality even if WE literally have to fight for it... Be Blessed and Be Safe...
This is a tough story to like, but I appreciate you adding this info to help further prove how tragic this issue is. I'm happy the court did the right thing!
Im from New Orleans and I seen how left putting a mall in a nice mixed suburb near the city goes. As a matter of fact, that once nice mixed suburban area is filled with all the project people and it looks horrible. I was live there as young black boy now. We move there because back then is was safe. Now its were you earn your stripe for being a gangster.
This is exactly why urban planning is so insidious. It plays the long game under the radar. I learned a lot of this in school for urban design in early 2000s, but none of the knowledge has been built into repairing the damage done.
My great grandfather had one of the largest farms in the town. They curved the interstate to run through the middle of his land. The took his land for the interstate only used some of it and then sold the rest to a white developer. He was paid pennies on the dollar. The town named a road after him and have the nerve to act like that's an honor.
F-bags, then the highway is less efficient too as a result. They gave... give no phucks, and who funded this🤔 they wit the 💩💩 too. Govt make laws, ppl break them on mass scale(like Jim crow) with no recourse, then funds projects of the same ppl. How they gone ride the fence on humanity?
They did this in Detroit Hastings street. They turned it into I-375. Now they talking about closing the freeway to redevelop the land they stole. But I don't hear no plans of addressing the issue of black people losses.
This is why the Republicans are trying so hard to get the rid of history books. Couple with the mess they are doing now. They know history will not remember them fondly 🤔🤔 .
Both political parties are the same. It's just that one's overt and the other covert a cross between an evening wolf and a shy fox. Malcolm X warned you about these Liberals Google his speeches. When you have no permanent political friends and no permanent political enemies and you deal in Blk interest------ That's when you'll start getting somewhere. PS. Study your History when you want to, you don't need nobody's permission or Laws.
Thank you so much, Roy Wood Jr., for *Beyond the Scenes!* I am excited for EVERY episode! And it's really great to see Ms. Archer again! I love any opportunity to hear her share wisdom. *#ReparationsNOW*
The information provided here is extremely depressing if not annoying. I think such information needs to bombard the world until we begin to act positively with regard to reparations, ( legal, financial, emotional, ) etc.
I highly value these discussions. My mom told me about a group she and Dad joined in the 60s and 70s - an intercultural organization that gathered in small groups in one another’s homes to share a meal and just talk about life as they experienced it in our community. Apart from interfaith groups, I haven’t found anything like that being done now, and I think it’s unfortunate. Mom said it was really interesting to go to all these homes and notice all the many ways they, and their occupants, were the same, vs. the few ways they were different. It was a secular group, I believe, and I think that was important in order to attract a broader spectrum of participants. If anyone knows of similar groups that are currently active, I’d like to hear about them. Thanks so very much for this program. I appreciate hearing the stories and deepening my understanding of our country, even when it hurts. And it does hurt.
They tore down the rondo neighborhood in st Paul Minnesota which was an all black very prosperous high class neighborhood to make room for highway 94. All that's left is a street they named rondo that runs alongside the freeway just to remind blacks of what they did.
When I was young, my parents were blessed enough to buy a new home. I thank and praise them for taking time to research the "on hold" plans for I-94 through the South Side of Chicago. My folks selected wisely: four unsold (?) houses at the other end of my block were demolished about a year after we moved. I remember watching the process and listening to construction noise from building that highway. Now it's known locally as the Dan Ryan Expressway. Edit to add: this took place in the late 1950's.
They learned and applied the US policies, some felt the US was too severe. We gave bad examples to multiple horrible treatment to those considered "other". Not something we lean in our history classes unfortunately.
This is such a great, in depth conversation. Changing these problems require changes in laws, politics, education, real estate, and infrastructure design. It's deeply entrenched structural racism that will take a lot to undo.
It’s crazy that I had to learn about this through my independent research as an art student in 2011 and 2013. I learned about the highway systems cutting through black neighborhoods Miami and Tampa, then began to notice a pattern.
The interstate highway arguably destroyed the once great and highly urbanized American cities. Look at aerial images before and after of Detroit, Dallas, and seeing the before images of these once glamorous cities had beautiful streetcar lines intersect the urban core and downtowns, beautiful neighborhoods, streets, multistory mixed use developments, housing with character. Eisenhower stated he never meant for highways to cut though downtowns and the cities. Black neighborhoods were destroyed from these failed highway projects. And you wonder why America has a massive housing affordability crisis and shortage of affordable housing.
The shortage of affordable housing is not the highways fault my man. Those highways are used by all of us who commute to work and receives our goods. Try commuting without using those highways since they are racist . Every last one of ya use them and it beneficial to society .
Thank you for this. I had no idea it was a thing. Same idea is/was/is happening with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Dakota Access pipeline. It *could have been* routed through a white neighborhood -- it would have made SO much more sense if it had been -- but no, they are trying to locate it through the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lands.
Also, bridges over the routes to the beaches were high enough for cars to pass under but too low for busses. Any guesses why? Hint: it´s because of racism.
Yep...here in Long Island, NY all parkways leading to beaches were inaccessible to buses from the NYC boroughs that would primarily carry Black or Latin passengers. These were the intentional designs of Robert Moses.
I really appreciate learning about different perspectives of issues. I wish all people would be willing to really listen and learn from others. This world would be a better place for everyone.
Professor Archer dropped a sermon @34:28 - "Who gets to feel like they belong, who gets to live with SAFETY and DIGNITY" (regarding the often forgotten transportation piece and what it provides)
Richmond, VA is a prime example also, of highway racism. Even more I've seen city/county borders shift over the years as the black population expanded, stopping once it reached Chippenham Hwy. It's almost a mile shift in some areas.
This segment should be shown in schools, community groups and advocacy organization. Perfect example of celebrity platform to introduce a beneficial topic led by active expert subject matter expert in the field. I learned this segment.
In California the 710 fwy runs from DT Long Beach to Alhambra and doesn’t connect to remainder of the 710 in south Pasadena due to the residents having the money to pay to stop the progression of the fwy
This is an excellent deep-dive I to the topic! I understand how frustrating it must be to have time constraints & laugh espectations prevent this type of content on the main show, but am so glad that it is available online for those willing to find & watch it. I just wish there were more!
I had no idea this was part of Indianapolis' highway re-design, but I'm really glad to learn it is! Makes the interminable 65/70 interchange detours worth it.
As someone who made a mediocre presentation on the Federal Highway Act for National History Day, when I was twelve, I am ashamed that I never delved into this aspect of interstates in America. I've failed history, minorities, and myself!
On another Channel Amber Ruffin's ' How did we get here?' Discussed the many black towns buried under lakes, used for dams etc. Also very educational to watch.
A newfound cousin from Buffalo, NY related the model for highway expansion was my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They are getting ready to remove the highway I- 81 that went through the black community in Rochester NY. Government expansion destroyed many black communities that were self sufficient businesses thrived also.
Infrastructure is always labeled as a community improvement project and uses a city’s police power of Eminent Domain to carry out its desires. This is another example of why VOTING 🗳 MATTERS especially state and local positions; Board of Supv, City Mgrs and Mayors.
Voting matters ONLY when you have politicians that will support your cause, which is rare in the Black community! And even with Black politicians in power, they still are puppets to the puppet masters, essentially doing nothing for the community!
46:15 "are there any places in the world where there is a North Star of how we want to build, has it right?". Answer: The Netherlands. They build their cities around people, not cars. It is consistently ranked as one of the best places in the world to live, partially due to its walkability and cyclability. But more importantly, what those two abilities bring, low pollution, low noise, sense of community, increased health, increase wealth, and on and on and on.
One awful thing they didn't quite get to is that most of the interstates that plowed through historically black and/or brown neighborhoods did not include on/off ramps in those neighborhoods. Famously, the route through Gary, Indiana goes six miles with no exits because those six miles are the remnants of the formerly cohesive and prosperous black side of town.
I've always taken an interest in striving black communities after the Civil War, and how they were deliberately destroyed by highways building. This conversation put it into its proper perspective. Much better understanding as to where so many of our people are today. It affected every aspect of our lives. Wow!
In Detroit it’s been long known and discussed that the section of I 75 that connects the North and South of the city sections, was built on Detroit’s thriving black bottom district. Crazy successful black business district full of jazz clubs. We’re a lot of Motown artists developed their skills.
I remember when they ran a freeway through our neighbourhood and split us from our friends. I was 9- 10 years old in Columbus, Ohio. I think it was highway 70-71.
My grandfather's wife had a large farm that was taken by eminent domain to make an exit for a prominent highway. I'm pretty sure they lost all of the land even though that part of the highway was not a massive construction. I believe some of the land is now a popular shopping center... My dad's old neighborhood and highschool now has a highway going right through the middle of it and he would show us the rubble as we made trips to visit his mom. I grew up knowing that the government did this kind of stuff, but somehow the level of systemic racism is still deeper than I thought... I'm not surprised, but somehow I'm still disappointed. Black Optimism is hard to maintain. This is America. Really appreciate this piece.
@@andratoma9834 By what metric? In terms of Education (particularly in Math & Science), Healthcare, Life Expectancy, and Gun Violence, there are several countries doing MUCH better than the US... But I was born in the US. This country was build through the blood, flesh, and bone of my ancestors. My family has defended this country in uniform. I hate the systemic racism that prevails in this country, I'm so frustrated at the lack of progress and the continual struggle, but I'm not naive enough to think that Anti-Blackness is solely a US issue. It's not particularly easy (or safe) to be Black anywhere. ...I criticize my country, not because I hate it, but because I know it could do better. I don't buy into the propaganda that the USA is #1 or the greatest place to live, but I will always believe in the American ideals that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. And I will continue to bemoan until this country actually have met those ideals. Until reparations have been made to those who have had those rights trampled.
the next topic should be how Black communities were dismantled by eminent domain, the Fifth Amendment by undervaluing homes and uses EPA to devalue entirely due to underground oil tanks
The I-81 routing through Syracuse has recently been slated to be demolished in an effort to re-unite the neighborhood it ruined, with 81 to be re-routed around the city.
Thank you for the frank and informative discussion on infrastructure planning and performance and how they practice and perpetuate racial and economic segregation. I have heard a lot of outrage among “I’m not racist” white communities about critical race theory, that it is false and harmful to teach children and so on. I think that what they need is THIS kind of dissemination of information. Systemic racism doesn’t just mean profiling in law enforcement. It doesn’t mean just the most egregious examples of racism, where children are killed by police. It means a complete system of existence designed to support privilege and oppress by race class and sadly many other factors. These topics were not covered in my history books 📖 growing up in public school. They really REALLY need to be.
🍎 I don’t recall hearing this point made in the conversation. FYI, when President Eisenhower, and the politicians were planning out highway and railroads infrastructure in the 50s, one of the major concerns was if racial war broke out in America, what’s America’s plan ( White people’s plan )? 1. Build railroad tracks along racial neighborhood lines. This gesture serves as unspoken warning of segregated lines. If you are Black, on the white side of the tracks after 7 PM, you had better be coming or going to work at a white persons home or business. 2. The United States government felt it to be important to have quick and convenient access to black neighborhoods in the event of racial war. Hence, quick and easy access to Black, neighborhoods highway, Rail road infrastructure. 3. If you noticed, in every major city that has professional football stadium, soccer field, arenas. All of these facilities are located near interstates, Convenient for commercial events and Business also to double As concentration camps ( Prisons ) in the event of race war. The aftermath of hurricane Katrina, was testimony to this fact in Louisiana. 3. The roofs of black neighborhoods were calculatedly painted coded Colors to identify black neighborhoods from the sky. A tactic that was quite useful for the in the 1921 burning of Black Wall Street. As white pilots flew over Black Wall Street they could identify it by the roofs and dropped motel cocktails on Black Residence , and burnt the community to the ground. 4. Code: need to find the Black Neighborhood In any major city? In your GPS type in Martin Luther King Blvd. the hood will be nearby. Kudos
"Eminent Domain" should have had more time. Seneca Village was bulldozed via Eminent Domain. As were many other towns, flooded for reservoirs, and the like. It's not just the roads that Eminent Domain comes with, but the other ways of dividing or destroying generational wealth.
And now, the law says that government can do that for the purpose of selling off the property immediately to a developer. Think about that - a rich white guy could, if they want to and have the government on board, force black residents out of an area to build high-end apartments for white people, and it's all completely legal. Funny that.
The creation of the "overpass" was by design, in used for whites to pass over the black communities. This was also a way to stall the economic spending in the black communities. To this day, when I speak with clients who look to lease buildings, I am always sure to discuss the location of the property.
This sh#t crazy there was a lady I used to talk to few years ago she was supposed to show me a DVD of how San Antonio I37 was made to split the white side of town from the brown
@Daniel Lapusso Aye, go read a book or 3, or four. Unless you live in a state where they are banning the truth. Also, read up on the meaning of the "shade tree." Stop dumbing yourself down intentionally
I remember when they built the 105 freeway in Los Angeles and our neighborhoods that were affected by that. We moved to Las Vegas a few years before but still had family and friends that lost homes.
I had no idea this was part of a much larger designed purpose, but the same thing happened in the 70s in Los Angeles with the construction of the 105 Freeway - called the Century Freeway. A lot of older black folks were displaced, even though opposition through lawsuits filed in the federal courts, the battle was lost and they were paid below market pricing to move. If you know LA, where do you move in the City where housing prices have increase 10 fold since 1970? Thank you for this segment.
Adverts, talk shows, documentaries, bombard audiences. Such information should be continuously shoved in the faces of audiences until we all begin to act in a proper and humane manner.
I stopped watching the video about halfway through...but I wonder if they mention the fact that gas was leaded back then which also caused more health issues in these Black communities.
This is so eye opening and sad how they were able to use eminent domain to destroy communities. And it could be so subjective! They can value the houses however they want based on race. They could value a white families house $$$ allowing them to move to a new neighborhood and then value a black families house $ leaving them stuck and scrambling😯 this is horrible! 😡
If you think that's horrible, to see even a sizable fraction of what all has been done is currently being done to oppressed people labeled "black" or brown, any objective observer would have to conclude that it's nothing short of diabolical and demonic/devilish. To that point, there's a reason why stories like Lovecraft County exist and why there is an emerging genre of horror movies and shows centered around the "black" experience living amongst "white" people. What people call fiction often conveys truths merely in a visually distorted way.
Yeah...same thing with that pipeline. The people that want it are cool with it as long as it's not running through their property. Nice conversation guys, love it!!
@30:20 when she spoke about the Mall in Michigan I know exactly what mall she’s talking about. Unless sadly there are multiple malls in this scenario in Michigan. I used to ride the bus past that mall to my high school job and I’d hear the adults often complain about how hard it was to get to work because of how the buses ran and the lack of bus stops.
As someone who went to school in Hunts point down the block from the Bruckner (Robert Moses genius segregation project) I appreciate this making it into mainstream conversations
When they started talking I immediately thought of Overtown, the barrier of which is I95, separating it physically and culturally from bayside and the rest of downtown. Glad it was brought up about 15m in.
This was a great segment I just want to add 1 thing that I've noticed in my own community that considers itself extremely blue and liberal. All it takes for them to make a change is for one white person to complain. There was a service road in my neighborhood, that used to be able to be accessed in 2 different directions. And one white man didn't like that and wanted to block the service road in 1 direction. And they just did it, they didn't ask the community if they wanted that to happen. He was one man. he made a complaint and they just changed it. So when you talk about white people making request to not have something in their neighborhood. It may not have been a collective of white people, it could have just been one white person that said I don't want this, Go put it in the black neighborhood. And they would just do it🤦🏾♀️
I am from Mound Bayou, MS. At one time it was the largest all-back city in the country. At a time, there was a major highway that passed thru my town. That highway supported businesses. It was most definitely in the Greenbook. May a decade ago the state built a new highway that now goes around my hometown. I am so shocked and disappointed when I see what happened to my town post "new highway". Businesses gone. Population plummeting. No jobs. This is true. When I was coming up in the 70's and 80's we experienced the adversity of being an all black city in a very racist part of MS. I don't think I could describe that in a comment. But to take away the thru-traffic was devastating and, in my opinion, intentional. So, I can relate.
Allow me first to say that Trevor Noah and Roy Wood Jr. are the best things to happen with late night television! Thanks to this particular Behind the Scenes topic, subscribers are given the opportunity to see just how important a role the highway system has played in perpetuating racism in American society. This is the kind of thing that critical race theory proports to examine and I for one am all for it. Thank you for this programming and for bringing to light a topic that most people don't generally think about.
The segments are incredible and so necessary and timely. I only found them today even though I’ve been following Trevor for years on YT. Now I’m watching one after another and I’m wondering how do I find these segment specifically? Can someone help a sister out? Peace
Sounds like more evidence for the Case for Reparations. It's just one thing after another after another after another after another. I did not learn this in my PWI school.
Documentary The Uncomfortable Truth and Black, White, and Us should be taught in school and covers racism coming from White people who get it. The spoon full of medicine may be easier to swallow coming from other White people. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
"You Just Can't Make This 💩 Up" ! "Black and Brown Money Matters" ! The money collected on Sunday morning could finance economic development and our own communities ! To avoid becoming residual revenue from bogus policing..
Columbus, Ohio ran a highway right through a thriving black community. It divided the nighborhood in half. Now one side of the highway is being gentrified. Historic black churches in this neighborhood are deteriorating. Heartbreaking. 😭
I never thought about the highway....I live in Memphis,,the inner city was separated by train tracks ,people living under expressway. This really dropped knowledge, thanks Roy.
I’m seeing this happen right in front of me. I’m from St Louis, MO. In a suburb called University City we had a meeting about whether or not we would get a big box store. The residents said no, I attended the town hall myself. The residents who lived where the store is going had their homes targeted by the developer, anyone who said no was forcibly removed though eminent domain. My home is about 1 mile from the area. My home value has doubled in five years, and people call me several times a week asking to buy it. There’s so many layers to why, but taking story short it’s clear they want the working class part of U City out. It’s one of the most racially diverse municipalities in the state of Missouri, but some people clearly want to change this.
Have to say, Roy Wood Jr. is an excellent moderator/interviewer. Keeping things moving, getting everyone involved. Obviously funny and all that...but hats off to the interview technique.
Thanks for saying this. There's something I really like about his style even though I can't put my finger on it.
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Andrew agreed 💯
Hence the saying [you live on the wrong side of the tracks].
I used to live in a predominantly minority area. We asked for a traffic light at a four way intersection at the entrance to the neighborhood. We were told no light could be put in until there were at least 13 fatalities first.
In Tampa FL they ran the main interstate 275 thru the Black and Latino communities. It cuts through the cigar factories, workers lived within walking distance but the interstate also brought down the value of the mansions built by minority cigar factory owners.
This is still happening today. They have added a new interstate connection that doesn't interrupt South tampa (the Beverly hills of tampa) this interstate is about 50 ft off the ground and has tolls. It is strategic in its design because you can't see it as it is hidden behind buildings up high.
2 years ago they discovered that the city built a housing project on a cemetery of affluent local black leaders.
This is now being corrected, however it is nauseating it even happened.
This is so sad. I can only imagine the folks back then being forced to be homeless. Such a mess.
The disrespect never stops. It is 2022 and these are still topics of discussion. When I die they will still be topics of discussion.
Also in Jacksonville, FL. The highway ran through the prominent Black neighborhoods, like my grandfather's who was a dentist.
I remember when I moved to Tulsa, OK (had to wasn't my choice) and at some point actually read about the Tulsa Massacre. I was astonished as I was sickened by the event that I had NEVER heard of it prior to moving there. I worked in Lakeland and drove through Ybor often, wondering about the history of the place and the old cigar factories that had flourished there in years prior. I wasn't quite young enough anymore to enjoy the Ybor nightlife so only drove through it a few times during the day just to take it all in. Now I understand what really happened. While not as atrocious an event as the Tulsa Massacre, the fact it just happened there, and so many other places in the country, just hurts.
@@sandywaters1153 very true
White America knows what they did... they just hope that no one will notice.
They have known for over 400 years..what does that tell u ?
I think they really didn't care one way or the other.
This is why The Honorable Elijah Muhammad called them out “open enemy”! They don’t even try to hide their hatred of us!
Where the rubber hit the road, you're spot on Andre' they, white America, always put themselves first, no doubt about that fact. Now they pretend as if there's no truth on the way they conduct themselves in the past, present and future. White America don't want/need to feel uncomfortable while discussing their history of out right white supremacy over people of African descent but yet they always speak of how great America is. Now they want to "Make America Great Again". Well white Americans who think this way, what do you really mean when shouting this slogan? Don't hide behind your true feelings I'd rather you express who you truly are and stop hiding when the spot light is shining for all to see your true colors, it's a cowardice act when you get busted for being real.
Oh they care and see to it that you get nothing but empty promises, and The delaying games and other tactics to confuse and hinder any progress for black people
I loved this segment. My family in Shorter AL actually had the high way get built where their home was. In Chicago where I live the Dan Ryan expressway is in the exact spot where classmates families lived. North Beverly neighborhood is a maze to drive through because of dead end and one way streets. These things happen when I was a child and I'm 74 years old any this is the 1st time it's been explained so eloquently. Thank you for this
May north road are rad cost most every road went through any where whites moved too
@@loralarose9615 please explain. I'm not understanding your comment.
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They are making teaching usa’s racial history illegal in the schools. Comedians are going to be the only way history will be learned by the next generation. And it is even FUN to learn! Thanks to John Stewart and the Daily Show and the people than came from there.
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This is one of those things that you've kind of felt growing up but never was able to put a finger to, great interview.
Your consistency and quality of content never disappoints!
@@busterofcoviddeniers More like, educating the willfully ignorant.
Well said!!
@@busterofcoviddeniers yes because racism is bad.
Roy, I really appreciated this segment of discussion joined by a panel of two eminent experts on issues impacting black people through racial phobia, wealth inequality, even white rage which is just a "scratch on the surface" considering the number of ongoing problems suffered by black people. Many more discussions of this magnitude needs to be held frequently to strategize and to mobilize our people to the call of action. I fear any less deployment toward the topics discussed won't be enough to challenge the rapidly emergence of white preeminence in America. Continue the great work.
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This is part of the curriculum in undergrad courses in environmental studies and geography. It’s sad how few people know this. It is part of our physical history. We can see it around us. To think there are those like Tucker Carlson who can deny documented history on TV is beyond me.
Well I’m glad as a white woman you are paying attention.
@@Dideeeee Adverts, talk shows, documentaries, bombard audiences. Such information should be continuously shoved in the faces of audiences until we all begin to act in a proper and humane manner.
And half Swiss like Trevor Noah. International mixed up person that is treated like a foreigner in their countries. Gives you a lot of perspective, especially when you have to take a flight halfway across the world to see ½ your family, then another to see the other half. So I have a hard time feeling White when I’ve been racially profiled in my mother’s country and self-censor my background and don’t use my father’s language out in public.
. . . and this is why CRT shouldn't be taught in only law schools. Be proud of your evil, anti-CRT folks.
You can t see nothing nothing they did 100 years ago affect anyone that everyone wasn’t just black people it was all better this is ignorant
Say what you want about the USA, the consistency is impeccable.
The truth
It's not just the USA.
😂😂😂😂😂
The bus to the mall story happened in Buffalo NY. When they built the new mall out in Amherst I believe they didn’t want people coming from the city to the new mall via public transportation. They basically wanted to keep it an upscale mall. So when they did the zoning they didn’t allow the buses to actually have stops on mall property- they couldn’t actually go into the parking lots. The bus stop was across the “street” which was actually a six lane highway(it wasn’t the black side of the highway as she said- the mall was in the burbs). But in Buffalo it ummmm….snows a lot. And when it snows they plough the roads and pile the snow along the sides of the street and it often blocks sidewalks and roadway entrances. So when when the bus stopped they let people out into the street and she was trying to cross and got hit by a car. They initially wanted to sue the driver as the town claimed passengers were allowed to be let off the bus when it was unsafe by the lawyers for the family wanted to sue the city because they were the ones who had the zoning ordinance which prevented buses from having stops in the parking lot. Johnny Cochran was the lawyer who sued the city and they won.
Like Trump, he mouths equality, yet his actions don't stand up to his words... For instance, Blacks whom for whatever reason couldn't complete their education and therefore ended up for a decade or more not even making 20,000 a year or even less very often, are stuck with student loans that just don't stay the same, they collect interest making it harder to pay off the loan... Many have had to take survival jobs, then Corporate America judges their worth based on that survival job's income... It's time for Black Wallstreet's rebirth... It's time that WE start manufacturing our own products, to include cars, apartment complex, protected farms, large grocery stores, painters, masons, electricians, carpenters, doctors, as well as politicians... This is a MUST!!! Not just something WE dream of, but make it a reality even if WE literally have to fight for it... Be Blessed and Be Safe...
This is a tough story to like, but I appreciate you adding this info to help further prove how tragic this issue is. I'm happy the court did the right thing!
This story is true. I remember it.
Im from New Orleans and I seen how left putting a mall in a nice mixed suburb near the city goes. As a matter of fact, that once nice mixed suburban area is filled with all the project people and it looks horrible. I was live there as young black boy now. We move there because back then is was safe. Now its were you earn your stripe for being a gangster.
Wow! Thank you for this historic gem 💎
This is exactly why urban planning is so insidious. It plays the long game under the radar. I learned a lot of this in school for urban design in early 2000s, but none of the knowledge has been built into repairing the damage done.
That's Amerikkka
My great grandfather had one of the largest farms in the town. They curved the interstate to run through the middle of his land. The took his land for the interstate only used some of it and then sold the rest to a white developer. He was paid pennies on the dollar. The town named a road after him and have the nerve to act like that's an honor.
F-bags, then the highway is less efficient too as a result. They gave... give no phucks, and who funded this🤔 they wit the 💩💩 too. Govt make laws, ppl break them on mass scale(like Jim crow) with no recourse, then funds projects of the same ppl. How they gone ride the fence on humanity?
That's like, when Someone is Desperate for money to save their home, and someone donates to a Charity, in their name, instead of paying the bill!
It's heartbreaking to hear stories like this. That's why there is really no answer to these injustices without reparations being at the centre
Sadly that happened over and over again across the US 😢
So MANY stories like yours attached to the black descendants of slaves in this country, yet people act as if it's absurd to demand reparations...
Great content. Teaching more than most schools in America
They did this in Detroit Hastings street. They turned it into I-375. Now they talking about closing the freeway to redevelop the land they stole. But I don't hear no plans of addressing the issue of black people losses.
@Kishwar Smith It upsets me as well. Detroiters not screaming loud enough about it right now. They just moving right alone with they plan.
Say that!!!!
I am quite aware of the Black Bottom sacrifice. After all, Detroit was the mother of the national highway system. Gives you something to think about.
I witnessed all these things going on from a front row seat. Remember, Detroit was the precursor to the National Highway System (I94).
@Daniel Lapusso My grammar is hardly the issue.
Thank you Roy Wood Jr. and Co for going deep on this subject.
This is why the Republicans are trying so hard to get the rid of history books.
Couple with the mess they are doing now.
They know history will not remember them fondly 🤔🤔 .
Also, they want to repeat history...
That right there!
Both political parties are the same. It's just that one's overt and the other covert a cross between an evening wolf and a shy fox.
Malcolm X warned you about these Liberals Google his speeches.
When you have no permanent political friends and no permanent political enemies and you deal in Blk interest------
That's when you'll start getting somewhere.
PS. Study your History when you want to, you don't need nobody's permission or Laws.
Our President Joe Biden will help us
We are going to have to create a new underground railroad whose rail cars are knowledge that's being taught in our community centers and churches.
Roy, you are so much more than a comedian. Keep it up with humor and class!
You should've known his father. He would set Birmingham on fire in the mornings with truth
Thank you so much, Roy Wood Jr., for *Beyond the Scenes!* I am excited for EVERY episode! And it's really great to see Ms. Archer again! I love any opportunity to hear her share wisdom.
*#ReparationsNOW*
The information provided here is extremely depressing if not annoying. I think such information needs to bombard the world until we begin to act positively with regard to reparations, ( legal, financial, emotional, ) etc.
Knowledge is Power!!! Thank You all!!! All the way from Mississippi!!!
I highly value these discussions. My mom told me about a group she and Dad joined in the 60s and 70s - an intercultural organization that gathered in small groups in one another’s homes to share a meal and just talk about life as they experienced it in our community. Apart from interfaith groups, I haven’t found anything like that being done now, and I think it’s unfortunate. Mom said it was really interesting to go to all these homes and notice all the many ways they, and their occupants, were the same, vs. the few ways they were different. It was a secular group, I believe, and I think that was important in order to attract a broader spectrum of participants.
If anyone knows of similar groups that are currently active, I’d like to hear about them.
Thanks so very much for this program. I appreciate hearing the stories and deepening my understanding of our country, even when it hurts. And it does hurt.
They tore down the rondo neighborhood in st Paul Minnesota which was an all black very prosperous high class neighborhood to make room for highway 94. All that's left is a street they named rondo that runs alongside the freeway just to remind blacks of what they did.
When I was young, my parents were blessed enough to buy a new home. I thank and praise them for taking time to research the "on hold" plans for I-94 through the South Side of Chicago. My folks selected wisely: four unsold (?) houses at the other end of my block were demolished about a year after we moved. I remember watching the process and listening to construction noise from building that highway. Now it's known locally as the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Edit to add: this took place in the late 1950's.
Sounds like apartheid spatial planning in South Africa. Infrastructure is the most effective way to maintain and perpetuate the legacy of racism.
Oh my goodness I was thinking similar as I was considering how this continues in many African countries, where the driver is both classism and racism.
They learned and applied the US policies, some felt the US was too severe. We gave bad examples to multiple horrible treatment to those considered "other". Not something we lean in our history classes unfortunately.
This is such a great, in depth conversation. Changing these problems require changes in laws, politics, education, real estate, and infrastructure design. It's deeply entrenched structural racism that will take a lot to undo.
Happened to my family. Imminent Domain…paid out my grandparents and a Highway now runs in the center of what was our family home.
It’s crazy that I had to learn about this through my independent research as an art student in 2011 and 2013. I learned about the highway systems cutting through black neighborhoods Miami and Tampa, then began to notice a pattern.
The interstate highway arguably destroyed the once great and highly urbanized American cities. Look at aerial images before and after of Detroit, Dallas, and seeing the before images of these once glamorous cities had beautiful streetcar lines intersect the urban core and downtowns, beautiful neighborhoods, streets, multistory mixed use developments, housing with character. Eisenhower stated he never meant for highways to cut though downtowns and the cities. Black neighborhoods were destroyed from these failed highway projects. And you wonder why America has a massive housing affordability crisis and shortage of affordable housing.
It didn’t destroy those cities
Look into Durham, NC
The shortage of affordable housing is not the highways fault my man. Those highways are used by all of us who commute to work and receives our goods. Try commuting without using those highways since they are racist . Every last one of ya use them and it beneficial to society .
@@johnfreeman9358 You claim to have some problems with society yet you live in a society. Curious. I am very smart!
@@Anakatsu naw I don’t claim to have problem chump that’s you
To be a enemy of America is dangerous but to be a friend of America is fatal.
Henry Kissinger
Thank you for this. I had no idea it was a thing. Same idea is/was/is happening with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Dakota Access pipeline. It *could have been* routed through a white neighborhood -- it would have made SO much more sense if it had been -- but no, they are trying to locate it through the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lands.
You can't drive a car looking backward, Us Black Americans need to go forward and stop all of this Race blaming and race excuses.
Also, bridges over the routes to the beaches were high enough for cars to pass under but too low for busses. Any guesses why? Hint: it´s because of racism.
Yep...here in Long Island, NY all parkways leading to beaches were inaccessible to buses from the NYC boroughs that would primarily carry Black or Latin passengers. These were the intentional designs of Robert Moses.
I really appreciate learning about different perspectives of issues. I wish all people would be willing to really listen and learn from others. This world would be a better place for everyone.
Professor Archer dropped a sermon @34:28 - "Who gets to feel like they belong, who gets to live with SAFETY and DIGNITY" (regarding the often forgotten transportation piece and what it provides)
Richmond, VA is a prime example also, of highway racism. Even more I've seen city/county borders shift over the years as the black population expanded, stopping once it reached Chippenham Hwy. It's almost a mile shift in some areas.
i95 is a great example of this, it totally destroyed Jackson Ward. A thriving black mecca back then.
This segment should be shown in schools, community groups and advocacy organization. Perfect example of celebrity platform to introduce a beneficial topic led by active expert subject matter expert in the field. I learned this segment.
In California the 710 fwy runs from DT Long Beach to Alhambra and doesn’t connect to remainder of the 710 in south Pasadena due to the residents having the money to pay to stop the progression of the fwy
This is an excellent deep-dive I to the topic! I understand how frustrating it must be to have time constraints & laugh espectations prevent this type of content on the main show, but am so glad that it is available online for those willing to find & watch it. I just wish there were more!
Wow. Just...wow.
Thank you for this segment.
I had no idea this was part of Indianapolis' highway re-design, but I'm really glad to learn it is! Makes the interminable 65/70 interchange detours worth it.
They say a prominent entertainment venue in Indianapolis was destroyed for a highway expansion project.
As someone who made a mediocre presentation on the Federal Highway Act for National History Day, when I was twelve, I am ashamed that I never delved into this aspect of interstates in America. I've failed history, minorities, and myself!
These people aren't being honest.
On another Channel Amber Ruffin's ' How did we get here?' Discussed the many black towns buried under lakes, used for dams etc. Also very educational to watch.
You ever read or watched deliverance?
A newfound cousin from Buffalo, NY related the model for highway expansion was my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They are getting ready to remove the highway I- 81 that went through the black community in Rochester NY. Government expansion destroyed many black communities that were self sufficient businesses thrived also.
Infrastructure is always labeled as a community improvement project and uses a city’s police power of Eminent Domain to carry out its desires. This is another example of why VOTING 🗳 MATTERS especially state and local positions; Board of Supv, City Mgrs and Mayors.
Voting matters ONLY when you have politicians that will support your cause, which is rare in the Black community! And even with Black politicians in power, they still are puppets to the puppet masters, essentially doing nothing for the community!
46:15 "are there any places in the world where there is a North Star of how we want to build, has it right?". Answer: The Netherlands. They build their cities around people, not cars. It is consistently ranked as one of the best places in the world to live, partially due to its walkability and cyclability. But more importantly, what those two abilities bring, low pollution, low noise, sense of community, increased health, increase wealth, and on and on and on.
One awful thing they didn't quite get to is that most of the interstates that plowed through historically black and/or brown neighborhoods did not include on/off ramps in those neighborhoods. Famously, the route through Gary, Indiana goes six miles with no exits because those six miles are the remnants of the formerly cohesive and prosperous black side of town.
I've always taken an interest in striving black communities after the Civil War, and how they were deliberately destroyed by highways building. This conversation put it into its proper perspective. Much better understanding as to where so many of our people are today. It affected every aspect of our lives. Wow!
In Detroit it’s been long known and discussed that the section of I 75 that connects the North and South of the city sections, was built on Detroit’s thriving black bottom district. Crazy successful black business district full of jazz clubs. We’re a lot of Motown artists developed their skills.
I remember when they ran a freeway through our neighbourhood and split us from our friends. I was 9- 10 years old in Columbus, Ohio. I think it was highway 70-71.
My grandfather's wife had a large farm that was taken by eminent domain to make an exit for a prominent highway. I'm pretty sure they lost all of the land even though that part of the highway was not a massive construction. I believe some of the land is now a popular shopping center...
My dad's old neighborhood and highschool now has a highway going right through the middle of it and he would show us the rubble as we made trips to visit his mom.
I grew up knowing that the government did this kind of stuff, but somehow the level of systemic racism is still deeper than I thought... I'm not surprised, but somehow I'm still disappointed. Black Optimism is hard to maintain.
This is America.
Really appreciate this piece.
Do you believe there is ANOTHER country, better than USA? Because I believe USA is the best!
@@andratoma9834 very miserable "best" for black people
@@andratoma9834 By what metric? In terms of Education (particularly in Math & Science), Healthcare, Life Expectancy, and Gun Violence, there are several countries doing MUCH better than the US...
But I was born in the US. This country was build through the blood, flesh, and bone of my ancestors. My family has defended this country in uniform.
I hate the systemic racism that prevails in this country, I'm so frustrated at the lack of progress and the continual struggle, but I'm not naive enough to think that Anti-Blackness is solely a US issue. It's not particularly easy (or safe) to be Black anywhere.
...I criticize my country, not because I hate it, but because I know it could do better. I don't buy into the propaganda that the USA is #1 or the greatest place to live, but I will always believe in the American ideals that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
And I will continue to bemoan until this country actually have met those ideals. Until reparations have been made to those who have had those rights trampled.
@@andratoma9834 Every country has issues but there are other countries better than the USA
@@ISeeYouComeBackToMe Their is Scotland, Ireland, Australia,Greece, Israel, Argentina. But I still love the USA.
It's crazy I'm 51 from Dallas and I've been knowing about this since the 80's!
Love beyond the scenes series and Roy wood jr is so great to me!!! Loved the natural hair episode!!!
Learned this in undergrad...saw it in my community...sadly
the next topic should be how Black communities were dismantled by eminent domain, the Fifth Amendment by undervaluing homes and uses EPA to devalue entirely due to underground oil tanks
I can't even finish watching this, it makes me SO sick.
The I-81 routing through Syracuse has recently been slated to be demolished in an effort to re-unite the neighborhood it ruined, with 81 to be re-routed around the city.
Thank you for the frank and informative discussion on infrastructure planning and performance and how they practice and perpetuate racial and economic segregation. I have heard a lot of outrage among “I’m not racist” white communities about critical race theory, that it is false and harmful to teach children and so on. I think that what they need is THIS kind of dissemination of information. Systemic racism doesn’t just mean profiling in law enforcement. It doesn’t mean just the most egregious examples of racism, where children are killed by police. It means a complete system of existence designed to support privilege and oppress by race class and sadly many other factors.
These topics were not covered in my history books 📖 growing up in public school. They really REALLY need to be.
Here is a real black man F. D. Brisco III ( ua-cam.com/video/_4Wbb2i4jOg/v-deo.html ) that said he's running for 2024 Presidency on Conscoius Mindset!
Just give Roy the hosting job already!
🍎 I don’t recall hearing this point made in the conversation.
FYI, when President Eisenhower, and the politicians were planning out highway and railroads infrastructure in the 50s, one of the major concerns was if racial war broke out in America, what’s America’s plan ( White people’s plan )?
1. Build railroad tracks along racial neighborhood lines.
This gesture serves as unspoken warning of segregated lines.
If you are Black, on the white side of the tracks after 7 PM, you had better be coming or going to work at a white persons home or business.
2. The United States government felt it to be important to have quick and convenient access to black neighborhoods in the event of racial war.
Hence, quick and easy access to Black, neighborhoods highway, Rail road infrastructure.
3. If you noticed, in every major city that has professional football stadium, soccer field, arenas.
All of these facilities are located near interstates, Convenient for commercial events and Business also to double As concentration camps ( Prisons ) in the event of race war.
The aftermath of hurricane Katrina, was testimony to this fact in Louisiana.
3. The roofs of black neighborhoods were calculatedly painted coded Colors to identify black neighborhoods from the sky.
A tactic that was quite useful for the in the 1921 burning of Black Wall Street. As white pilots flew over Black Wall Street they could identify it by the roofs and dropped motel cocktails on Black Residence , and burnt the community to the ground.
4. Code: need to find the Black Neighborhood In any major city?
In your GPS type in Martin Luther King Blvd. the hood will be nearby.
Kudos
I LOVE this podcast!
Here is a real black man F. D. Brisco III ( ua-cam.com/video/_4Wbb2i4jOg/v-deo.html ) that said he's running for 2024 Presidency on Conscoius Mindset!
Can you do a deep dive into the use of lead paint in government housing, and the lack of lead abatement in poor and Black neighborhoods?
"Eminent Domain" should have had more time. Seneca Village was bulldozed via Eminent Domain. As were many other towns, flooded for reservoirs, and the like. It's not just the roads that Eminent Domain comes with, but the other ways of dividing or destroying generational wealth.
And now, the law says that government can do that for the purpose of selling off the property immediately to a developer. Think about that - a rich white guy could, if they want to and have the government on board, force black residents out of an area to build high-end apartments for white people, and it's all completely legal. Funny that.
Eminent Domain is evil.
The creation of the "overpass" was by design, in used for whites to pass over the black communities. This was also a way to stall the economic spending in the black communities. To this day, when I speak with clients who look to lease buildings, I am always sure to discuss the location of the property.
TELL IT!
This sh#t crazy there was a lady I used to talk to few years ago she was supposed to show me a DVD of how San Antonio I37 was made to split the white side of town from the brown
@Daniel Lapusso Aye, go read a book or 3, or four. Unless you live in a state where they are banning the truth. Also, read up on the meaning of the "shade tree." Stop dumbing yourself down intentionally
I remember when they built the 105 freeway in Los Angeles and our neighborhoods that were affected by that. We moved to Las Vegas a few years before but still had family and friends that lost homes.
I had no idea this was part of a much larger designed purpose, but the same thing happened in the 70s in Los Angeles with the construction of the 105 Freeway - called the Century Freeway. A lot of older black folks were displaced, even though opposition through lawsuits filed in the federal courts, the battle was lost and they were paid below market pricing to move. If you know LA, where do you move in the City where housing prices have increase 10 fold since 1970? Thank you for this segment.
Adverts, talk shows, documentaries, bombard audiences. Such information should be continuously shoved in the faces of audiences until we all begin to act in a proper and humane manner.
I stopped watching the video about halfway through...but I wonder if they mention the fact that gas was leaded back then which also caused more health issues in these Black communities.
Saw a map that showed that most of the asthma patients in Chicago are along the highway routes
This is so eye opening and sad how they were able to use eminent domain to destroy communities. And it could be so subjective! They can value the houses however they want based on race. They could value a white families house $$$ allowing them to move to a new neighborhood and then value a black families house $ leaving them stuck and scrambling😯 this is horrible! 😡
If you think that's horrible, to see even a sizable fraction of what all has been done is currently being done to oppressed people labeled "black" or brown, any objective observer would have to conclude that it's nothing short of diabolical and demonic/devilish. To that point, there's a reason why stories like Lovecraft County exist and why there is an emerging genre of horror movies and shows centered around the "black" experience living amongst "white" people. What people call fiction often conveys truths merely in a visually distorted way.
Yeah...same thing with that pipeline. The people that want it are cool with it as long as it's not running through their property. Nice conversation guys, love it!!
@30:20 when she spoke about the Mall in Michigan I know exactly what mall she’s talking about. Unless sadly there are multiple malls in this scenario in Michigan. I used to ride the bus past that mall to my high school job and I’d hear the adults often complain about how hard it was to get to work because of how the buses ran and the lack of bus stops.
Trevor picked an excellent hyperintelligent stand in for this show. I'm enjoying it.
As someone who went to school in Hunts point down the block from the Bruckner (Robert Moses genius segregation project) I appreciate this making it into mainstream conversations
I know a lot about systemic racism, but there were many aspects in this video that I didn't know.
There are so many roads so they never moved anyone for road s just bkack people 🤣😂🤣
When they started talking I immediately thought of Overtown, the barrier of which is I95, separating it physically and culturally from bayside and the rest of downtown. Glad it was brought up about 15m in.
In South Carolina this is happening today and across the Carolinas.
Chronic debt and chronic aggrevation without hope for survival...destroys the spirit
This was a great segment I just want to add 1 thing that I've noticed in my own community that considers itself extremely blue and liberal.
All it takes for them to make a change is for one white person to complain.
There was a service road in my neighborhood, that used to be able to be accessed in 2 different directions. And one white man didn't like that and wanted to block the service road in 1 direction. And they just did it, they didn't ask the community if they wanted that to happen. He was one man. he made a complaint and they just changed it.
So when you talk about white people making request to not have something in their neighborhood. It may not have been a collective of white people, it could have just been one white person that said I don't want this, Go put it in the black neighborhood. And they would just do it🤦🏾♀️
You ain neva lied, Sis.
@@Omoloya1 I wish I was, tho!
THESE are actually some of the nuts & bolts of CRT
Exactly.
Mrs, Archer is speaking the truth and this is from someone who has lived in both white and black communities.
Excellent discussion! Well researched, concise and very clear. Much broader than the title suggests.
Literally the same thing regarding pipelines and landfills.
Hi President Archer, not only racial "equality" but racial "equity" as well.
I am from Mound Bayou, MS. At one time it was the largest all-back city in the country. At a time, there was a major highway that passed thru my town. That highway supported businesses. It was most definitely in the Greenbook. May a decade ago the state built a new highway that now goes around my hometown. I am so shocked and disappointed when I see what happened to my town post "new highway". Businesses gone. Population plummeting. No jobs. This is true. When I was coming up in the 70's and 80's we experienced the adversity of being an all black city in a very racist part of MS. I don't think I could describe that in a comment. But to take away the thru-traffic was devastating and, in my opinion, intentional. So, I can relate.
Great segment! Appreciate your research.
Allow me first to say that Trevor Noah and Roy Wood Jr. are the best things to happen with late night television! Thanks to this particular Behind the Scenes topic, subscribers are given the opportunity to see just how important a role the highway system has played in perpetuating racism in American society. This is the kind of thing that critical race theory proports to examine and I for one am all for it. Thank you for this programming and for bringing to light a topic that most people don't generally think about.
The segments are incredible and so necessary and timely. I only found them today even though I’ve been following Trevor for years on YT. Now I’m watching one after another and I’m wondering how do I find these segment specifically? Can someone help a sister out? Peace
Sounds like more evidence for the Case for Reparations. It's just one thing after another after another after another after another. I did not learn this in my PWI school.
Man, listen....Great show as always!
in suburbs outside of Atlanta for example Snellville they continually vote access to bus transportation coming in or even close
You Sold me your Show. And made smile thank you.
Documentary The Uncomfortable Truth and Black, White, and Us should be taught in school and covers racism coming from White people who get it. The spoon full of medicine may be easier to swallow coming from other White people. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
One of the best interviews I've had the pleasure of listening to!!
Great job, brother!!👏🏾👏🏾
Thanks to all involved for sharing!! Very informative!!💯
Extremely important , eye-opening and interesting topic. Thank you for addressing it in this manner.. So informative...I am amazed.
Discuss the role of organizations like the Sierra Club on environmental racism.
"You Just Can't Make This 💩 Up" !
"Black and Brown Money Matters" !
The money collected on Sunday morning could finance economic development and our own communities !
To avoid becoming residual revenue from bogus policing..
Columbus, Ohio ran a highway right through a thriving black community. It divided the nighborhood in half. Now one side of the highway is being gentrified. Historic black churches in this neighborhood are deteriorating. Heartbreaking. 😭
I never thought about the highway....I live in Memphis,,the inner city was separated by train tracks ,people living under expressway. This really dropped knowledge, thanks Roy.
I learn more black history EVERY time I watch this podcast. THANK YOU. ♡
Dude what part of this country isn't part of racism is the real question 🤦🏾♂️
I’m seeing this happen right in front of me. I’m from St Louis, MO. In a suburb called University City we had a meeting about whether or not we would get a big box store. The residents said no, I attended the town hall myself. The residents who lived where the store is going had their homes targeted by the developer, anyone who said no was forcibly removed though eminent domain. My home is about 1 mile from the area. My home value has doubled in five years, and people call me several times a week asking to buy it. There’s so many layers to why, but taking story short it’s clear they want the working class part of U City out. It’s one of the most racially diverse municipalities in the state of Missouri, but some people clearly want to change this.
Tennessee is a perfect example of these problems.
Just watch Nashville news and you will see examples every hour
It’s very sad what’s happening to North Nashville, but all least people are able to sell their homes at the new value.
Who framed roger rabbit hits different when you are older.
Dude..I laughed at first then cried....
I’m going to go back and watch it since you said it
Thank you so much for real talk. I am so tired of our prime black radio program talking bout nothing. Just found your show and you are great 👍.