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Originally Posted by Kngkyle
It would not be happening if not for the skin color of the area residents. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about helping disadvantaged communities but is this the best use of tax dollars to achieve that goal? I also don't buy the argument that this is needed because the 95th yard is capacity constrained. There is plenty of available land around the 95th yard to expand it amongst the 94/57 road spaghetti.
Not that it matters anymore since it seems almost certain to happen at this point. It just frustrates me that we're going to blow this rare funding on something so wasteful.
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It's not just the racism on display in this post but just the casual nature of it that is shocking. To conclude, due to ignorance on your part, that no other reason exists for supporting this project OTHER THAN the race of the community it impacts is racist.
Furthermore, to declare that you are for "helping disadvantaged communities" but not when doing so "wastes" precious funds is not only racist but an example of how systemic racism is self-perpetuating. Yes, as it turns out, decades of racist policies that dictated how how the fabric of our community was laid out, in terms of infrastructure, funding, services, loans, etc, has had an impact. To the extent that making corrections and attempting to improve the local infrastructure is significantly more expensive and less convenient than bolting on projects to areas that were more..."fortunate"...in terms of how resources were allocated. Richer and whiter communities have had resources lavished on them for decades while other areas are neglected.
Penalizing neglected communities, by steering funds away from them, because the neglect has made improvements expensive is just utter bullshit.