Pete Buttigieg made a comment last week that is making right wingers heads explode. As you know, they do not believe that structural/institutional racism exists — or has ever existed.
Not true:
Ask an ye shall receive:
This is detailed at length in Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book on Robert Moses, “The Power Broker.” See especially pages 318-319: “He began to limit access by buses; he instructed Shapiro to build the bridges across his new parkways low — too low for buses to pass. Bus trips therefore had to be made on local roads, making the trips discouraging long and arduous.
For Negroes, who he considered inherently ‘dirty,’ there were further measures. Buses needed permits to enter state parks; buses chartered by Negro groups found it very difficult to obtain permits, especially to Moses’s beloved Jones Beach; most were shunted off to parks many miles further on Long Island.” There’s much, much more. Easily one of the best nonfiction books ever written.
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Originally tweeted by Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) on November 8, 2021.
Racists can be very creative people. And the more society becomes aware of and rejects such bigotry, the more creative they are.