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    The Roads are Now Racist!!

    https://nypost.com/2021/11/08/social...ource=mail_app

    Transportation Sec. Pete B. says the construction of many American roads were built with "racist design choices." And so it seems a lot of the infrastructure dollars from the recent bill will be used to transform our racist roads. God help us!!

     
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    Walt, is this that systemic racism thing you were talking about?

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    Here in the north east maybe we can start by moving the George Washington Bridge. Currently it cuts right through Washington Heights and the Bronx on I-95 where, of course, there are many minority communities. Perhaps it could be moved to run right through mid-town Manhattan then make a hard turn to the east to avoid Harlem. And then you can rename all the New York bridges from names like George W., Ed Koch, Mario Cuomo, etc. and name them all after POC. This would surely solve the issue of racism in America once and for all.

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    You're racist for not blindly agreeing with him

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    It’s reverse racism. The roads are all black.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
    It’s reverse racism. The roads are all black.
    You are without a doubt the most unfunny person in the history of the forums. Whenever you try to inject any humor, you just come across as an unclever mope.

     
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    Correct me if I am wrong, but it is a matter of record the bridge was built specifically low enough so that buses could not get there. This was done to keep poor and minorities off the beach so it could be used by well to do white people.

    Just because one whines doesn't mean it isn't true.

    You might not think some confederate statues are racist, but that doesn't mean they were almost ALWAYS erected in response to the Civil Rights movement and not before.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by nightmarefish View Post
    Walt, is this that systemic racism thing you were talking about?
    LOL, you never Trumpers crack me up. You railed against Trump, supported Biden and Harris, now you are right back to your bobble back and forth. You got want you wanted, you prevented AOC from being President, which is the dumbest fucking reason to have supported Biden, like she ever would have run or got the nomination. But believe what you want my RINO friend. You got playyyyed by CNN and Joe Scarborough's wife. LOL, sucker born every minute. Now go join Liz Cheney and talk about the Constitution at her 4 person rallies.


     
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    Quote Originally Posted by tgull View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by nightmarefish View Post
    Walt, is this that systemic racism thing you were talking about?
    LOL, you never Trumpers crack me up. You railed against Trump, supported Biden and Harris, now you are right back to your bobble back and forth. You got want you wanted, you prevented AOC from being President, which is the dumbest fucking reason to have supported Biden, like she ever would have run or got the nomination. But believe what you want my RINO friend. You got playyyyed by CNN and Joe Scarborough's wife. LOL, sucker born every minute. Now go join Liz Cheney and talk about the Constitution at her 4 person rallies.




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    In the 1980s, with Compton being increasingly associated with gang culture (due to its prominence in rap music), various southern California cities started renaming Compton Blvd.

    Compton Blvd ran west from Compton all the way to the coast, ending up in pricey Manhattan Beach.

    Manhattan Beach was the first city to rename it "Marine Ave", but then others followed. Lawndale was next, which was somewhat of an insult, since it wasn't a particuarly good area itself. Gardena renamed it after that, again being a city with its own gang issues. Finally, in 1990, Redondo Beach renamed its 1-mile stretch of Compton Blvd near the 405 freeway, making it entirely Marine Ave once you went west of the 110 freeway. It remains like that today.

    Some complained at the time that this was racist, but cities responded that they were simply responding to concerns of residents, who felt that their home values were dropping because they were near Compton Blvd, after Compton had been glorified for its gang violence.

    There was a similar push for Redondo Beach to rename Inglewood Avenue, for similar reasons. However, Inglewood didn't have the same notoriety as Compton, and mainly had notoriety because it was near the Forum (where the Lakers and Kings played at the time), and that was known to be a bad neighborhood. It was never renamed.

    Shortly before Compton Blvd was renamed, someone spray-painted the N-word on a Compton Blvd sign in Redondo Beach, which oddly wasn't fixed for quite some time.

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...300-story.html

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    I saw recently they renamed Rodeo Road (not the one in Beverly Hills, one further south) into Obama Blvd. The part of the city it goes through is still mostly a dump, but not as bad as it could be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
    It’s reverse racism. The roads are all black.
    so is the universe
    check it out and get back

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    In the 1980s, with Compton being increasingly associated with gang culture (due to its prominence in rap music), various southern California cities started renaming Compton Blvd.

    Compton Blvd ran west from Compton all the way to the coast, ending up in pricey Manhattan Beach.

    Manhattan Beach was the first city to rename it "Marine Ave", but then others followed. Lawndale was next, which was somewhat of an insult, since it wasn't a particuarly good area itself. Gardena renamed it after that, again being a city with its own gang issues. Finally, in 1990, Redondo Beach renamed its 1-mile stretch of Compton Blvd near the 405 freeway, making it entirely Marine Ave once you went west of the 110 freeway. It remains like that today.

    Some complained at the time that this was racist, but cities responded that they were simply responding to concerns of residents, who felt that their home values were dropping because they were near Compton Blvd, after Compton had been glorified for its gang violence.

    There was a similar push for Redondo Beach to rename Inglewood Avenue, for similar reasons. However, Inglewood didn't have the same notoriety as Compton, and mainly had notoriety because it was near the Forum (where the Lakers and Kings played at the time), and that was known to be a bad neighborhood. It was never renamed.

    Shortly before Compton Blvd was renamed, someone spray-painted the N-word on a Compton Blvd sign in Redondo Beach, which oddly wasn't fixed for quite some time.

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...300-story.html
    In a similar vein my understanding is the 105 freeway was constructed so (white) people didn't have to drive through (black) urban areas to get to LAX. But again, I think just saying this was "racist" is missing the point. No one has any problems driving through Fox Hills (a higher end black neighborhood), so just reducing it to race is missing the point IMO.

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