• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    The automobile was just one additional way to do the racism.

    You live in the suburbs and drive to the shopping malls because the blacks can’t afford the cars to get there.

    Literally a society designed on apartheid.

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      2 days ago

      then when the malls close and a new trendy mixed-use development spawns from the rubble, the blacks can’t afford to live there, either.

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      3 days ago

      The racism was always there. The automobile enables the racism to do more damage.

      The supermarket can’t exist and ruin the small market without the automobile, no matter how racist society is.

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      3 days ago

      And ultimately it’s now trapped the people who supported it because they’re now 80 and can’t safely drive anywhere. Just decaying alive in their 3BR suburban cul-de-sac tombs while private equity waits like a vulture to reclaim the property.