• Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.world
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      US zoning laws are a fucking farce. They were developed to facilitate racial segregation in the 1910s and never really went away.

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        I’d say it’s the automobile that ruined it all.

        Racism comes in more with white flight and suburban sprawl. Then it all collapses.

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          The automobile was just one additional way to do the racism.

          You live in the suburbs and drive to the shopping malls because the blacks can’t afford the cars to get there.

          Literally a society designed on apartheid.

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            then when the malls close and a new trendy mixed-use development spawns from the rubble, the blacks can’t afford to live there, either.

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            The racism was always there. The automobile enables the racism to do more damage.

            The supermarket can’t exist and ruin the small market without the automobile, no matter how racist society is.

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            And ultimately it’s now trapped the people who supported it because they’re now 80 and can’t safely drive anywhere. Just decaying alive in their 3BR suburban cul-de-sac tombs while private equity waits like a vulture to reclaim the property.