Posted on Jun 2, 2022
Redlining made climate change worse in Kansas City, Kansas, but new generations are fighting back...
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More residents of northeast Kansas City, Kansas, are seeing the connection between the factories in their neighborhoods and their own health problems. As one activist puts it, "People see their lives are getting harder and that alone is evidence that they want to do something about it."
Hazel Davis, a 69-year-old Black woman, has been a lifelong resident of Northeast Kansas City, Kansas. Her house sits just one block from the on-ramp to Interstate 635, the connector between I-35 and I-29. Tens of thousands of trucks travel the short strip of interstate daily.
The Fairfax Trafficway, the west boundary of the Fairfax Industrial area, is a few miles away. The district is home not only to a General Motors Assembly Plant but also the site where three pipeline companies make 95% of the unleaded and diesel fuel for the Kansas City area and 100% of the jet fuel, according to the area website.
Hazel Davis, a 69-year-old Black woman, has been a lifelong resident of Northeast Kansas City, Kansas. Her house sits just one block from the on-ramp to Interstate 635, the connector between I-35 and I-29. Tens of thousands of trucks travel the short strip of interstate daily.
The Fairfax Trafficway, the west boundary of the Fairfax Industrial area, is a few miles away. The district is home not only to a General Motors Assembly Plant but also the site where three pipeline companies make 95% of the unleaded and diesel fuel for the Kansas City area and 100% of the jet fuel, according to the area website.
Redlining made climate change worse in Kansas City, Kansas, but new generations are fighting back...
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1.) RedLine Districts in America :
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498536077/interactive-redlining-map-zooms-in-on-americas-history-of-discrimination
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/redlining-1937
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2016/10/housing-discrimination-redlining-maps
2.) Blockbusting :
Blockbusting. Blockbusting refers to the practice of introducing African American homeowners into previously all white neighborhoods in order to spark rapid white flight and housing price decline. Real estate speculators have historically used this technique to profit from prejudice-driven market instability.
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/blockbusting
https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.citylab.com/amp/article/386674/
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?zid=2facfd6d9b2d [login to see] bc8967851b&action=2&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX [login to see] &userGroupName=sand55832&jsid=d677254bfddde138bf862d9046ccb4b5
*** this a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498536077/interactive-redlining-map-zooms-in-on-americas-history-of-discrimination
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/redlining-1937
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2016/10/housing-discrimination-redlining-maps
2.) Blockbusting :
Blockbusting. Blockbusting refers to the practice of introducing African American homeowners into previously all white neighborhoods in order to spark rapid white flight and housing price decline. Real estate speculators have historically used this technique to profit from prejudice-driven market instability.
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/blockbusting
https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.citylab.com/amp/article/386674/
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?zid=2facfd6d9b2d [login to see] bc8967851b&action=2&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX [login to see] &userGroupName=sand55832&jsid=d677254bfddde138bf862d9046ccb4b5
*** this a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America's History Of Discrimination
In the early 20th century, the federal government categorized neighborhoods, based largely on race, to determine mortgage eligibility. A new site combines the maps — and their revealing backstories.
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CPL LaForest Gray
1.)
A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways
April 7, 20215:02 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
SOURCE : https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways
2.) OCT 20, 2021
How Interstate Highways Gutted Communities—and Reinforced Segregation
America's interstate highway system cut through the heart of dozens of urban neighborhoods.
“ The neighborhoods destroyed and families uprooted by highway projects were largely Black and poor, wrote New York University law professor Deborah N. Archer in her article “White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction.”
And that was by design, she noted. Policymakers and planners saw highway construction as a convenient way to raze neighborhoods considered undesirable or blighted.
And they deployed the massive infrastructure elements—multi-lane roadbeds, concrete walls, ramps and overpasses—as tools of segregation, physical buffers to isolate communities of color.”
SOURCE : https://www.history.com/.amp/news/interstate-highway-system-infrastructure-construction-segregation
3.)
What It Looks Like to Reconnect Black Communities Torn Apart by Highways
By Rachael Dottle, Laura Bliss and Pablo Robles
July 28, 2021
Take any major American city and you’re likely to find a historically Black neighborhood demolished, gashed in two, or cut off from the rest of the city by a highway. This legacy of racist federal transportation policies continues to define the landscapes of urban spaces.
SOURCE : https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-urban-highways-infrastructure-racism/
A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways
April 7, 20215:02 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
SOURCE : https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways
2.) OCT 20, 2021
How Interstate Highways Gutted Communities—and Reinforced Segregation
America's interstate highway system cut through the heart of dozens of urban neighborhoods.
“ The neighborhoods destroyed and families uprooted by highway projects were largely Black and poor, wrote New York University law professor Deborah N. Archer in her article “White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction.”
And that was by design, she noted. Policymakers and planners saw highway construction as a convenient way to raze neighborhoods considered undesirable or blighted.
And they deployed the massive infrastructure elements—multi-lane roadbeds, concrete walls, ramps and overpasses—as tools of segregation, physical buffers to isolate communities of color.”
SOURCE : https://www.history.com/.amp/news/interstate-highway-system-infrastructure-construction-segregation
3.)
What It Looks Like to Reconnect Black Communities Torn Apart by Highways
By Rachael Dottle, Laura Bliss and Pablo Robles
July 28, 2021
Take any major American city and you’re likely to find a historically Black neighborhood demolished, gashed in two, or cut off from the rest of the city by a highway. This legacy of racist federal transportation policies continues to define the landscapes of urban spaces.
SOURCE : https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-urban-highways-infrastructure-racism/
A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways
Part of President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to promote racial equity. Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Connecting the dots
On a cloudless spring morning in Jersey Creek Park in Northeast Kansas City, Kansas, Ben Carpenter is leaning over the hood of his car, looking at a small map of Wyandotte County.
A white, boyish 31-year-old, the former AmeriCorps volunteer is originally from Rochester, New York.
He points out how this whole section of the county is red. It reflects the area covered by what’s called a combined sewer system, an aging underground infrastructure that mixes rainwater and household sewage. The dirty water flows out of pipes right into Jersey Creek."...
..."Connecting the dots
On a cloudless spring morning in Jersey Creek Park in Northeast Kansas City, Kansas, Ben Carpenter is leaning over the hood of his car, looking at a small map of Wyandotte County.
A white, boyish 31-year-old, the former AmeriCorps volunteer is originally from Rochester, New York.
He points out how this whole section of the county is red. It reflects the area covered by what’s called a combined sewer system, an aging underground infrastructure that mixes rainwater and household sewage. The dirty water flows out of pipes right into Jersey Creek."...
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