The dismantling of Black communities for highways is not just a thing of the past. In a planned highway widening project a few miles north of Charleston, 94 percent of displaced residents live in communities mostly consisting of Black and Brown people. wapo.st/3hsxZ2S
This 1957 aerial photograph shows the neighborhoods of Liberty Park and Highland Terrace in North Charleston prior to the construction of a freeway in 1969. At the time of the freeway construction, these neighborhoods were majority-Black. wapo.st/3hsxZ2S
@washingtonpost Who are brown people? Please stop “force-teaming” Black American descendants of chattel slavery, FBA ADOS…
@washingtonpost This seems like an example of a critical race theory unfolding (again) in real time, and I utterly reject anyone's right to censor it.
@washingtonpost The real story is that people who are from Charleston are getting pushed out in droves by out of state people moving there. The Charleston of today is nothing at all like the Charleston of my childhood. It’s impossibly unaffordable now for native South Carolinians.
@washingtonpost This will be another example of @POTUS saying anything to get our Black and Brown votes, then turning his back on his word. He did it with voting rights and the ARP. Dr. King was right about White moderates like Biden. He better get right, or he’s getting kicked out of office.