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@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.

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