Urban Renewal destroyed Black Communities

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Published 2023-10-26
Many black neighborhoods once thrived before city and state governments, using federal money to destroyed them. Government bureaucracies across the U.S. imposed “urban renewal" also known as “slum clearance”, these policies worked from the modernist notion that urban neighborhoods were dangerous and antiquated. Old neighborhoods were thus demolished, replaced with highways, public housing, and top-down economic developments.
Given that such “urban renewal” occurred nationwide, it’s easy to see why the affected neighborhoods still suffer, and why there’s not a larger African American middle class in America. Those areas had begun as emergent urban orders—small experiments in capitalism that arose from poverty and oppression—and were creating a generation of black businessmen. With time, those businesses likely would have evolved from relative simplicity to growth and specialization.
But this never happened, because these ecosystems were demolished. The culprit was local governments, who zealously created their destructive top-down plans; and the federal government, which gave out the money to execute them.
The “urban renewal” assault on black neighborhoods undermined liberty, free markets, and human dignity—and was one of America’s great, and unrecognized, twentieth-century tragedies.
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  • @nizzotheartist
    True facts these people will destroy all of your opportunities then turn right around and ask you why don't you have anything how wicked you get