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   Kawa Tora (kawatora@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 08:38:10 JST Kawa Tora

   • mekka okereke :verified:

   @mekkaokereke
   The roads of America and the laws around cars were built to destroy black neighborhoods and destroy the 4th and 5th Amendments.

   Lots of people don't read the whole 5th Amendment,

   " nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

   Millions of black people had their homes and businesses destroyed for highways in urban areas and they were not compensated fairly if at all.

   Robert Moses, the urban planner, not the civil rights activist, was an example of how urban planning was used to destroy black communities and restrict their movement. Tulsa style firebombing wasn't going to work everywhere, but bulldozers and asphalt had the same effect with less publicity.

   The Carroll v. United States case in the Supreme Court
   stripped Americans of their 4th Amendment rights, if they are in a car. Before this decision, cops needed a warrant to search people and their property. Afterwards a cop could use his own discretion to decide he had "probable cause". This is why 90% of the time when a cop is fucking with you, there is a car involved.

   #5thAmendment #4thAmendment #JimCrow #BlackMastodon #History

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     • The Animal and the Machine
     • mauvedeity

     @mauvedeity @taatm @KawaTora @mekkaokereke

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     mauvedeity (mauvedeity@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 08:38:08 JST mauvedeity

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     • mekka okereke :verified:
     • The Animal and the Machine

     @taatm @KawaTora @mekkaokereke I saw a thing somewhere about the reason why attacking racism seems unAmerican is because racism has shaped America.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     The Animal and the Machine (taatm@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 08:38:09 JST The Animal and the Machine

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     • mekka okereke :verified:

     @KawaTora @mekkaokereke
     Indeed. Some of your roads are super congested because they don’t work as roads. The aim of the road was to generate white jobs and destroy black neighbourhoods. Both one of ‘benefits’ with lifelong problems.

     These are the exact opposite of investments and so are in actuality, divestments in America.

     America wastes so much life, love and money on racism.