Comment on Left side park

• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The 5 blocks seem like a drop in the bucket, they probably could have just carved it out and let it be right? Oh nevermind, the rampant racism, class war, and general greed got in the way.

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• e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  but did this include their farmland?

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  • UnrepententProcrastinator@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just read a bit on it and it’s not farmland. However, the story is pretty grim where they tried to build the park elsewhere but rich families pushed back. Then, among the lot they finally chose, there was communities of slaves and european immigrants. They used racism to make their eviction look better referring to them as insects among other things. Landlords (20% of the pop) got compensation but squatters and renters did not.

    Plenty of other better examples of thriving black communities being destroyed by eminent domain by the US however. historyfortomorrow.org/…/eminent-domain-and-the-d…

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