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Crime is absolutely spiking including murders. Deaths on roadways are spiking as well - up more than 10% (25% for black Americans) in 2020. Pete Buttegieg says its because American roads are racist - even though all those roads were in place for decades before this recent spike. In both cases (crime and vehicular deaths) it?s a direct result of lax policing and dangerously stupid prosecutors. We saw a similar spike in crime and deaths that also affected black Americans disproportionately in the wake of the lies told about the Michael Brown death that led to a similar neutering of police and inaction by leftist prosecutors (virtually all of them backed by George Soros). But really it?s because roads are racist, they?re just now starting to show their racism - probably because they were emboldened by Trump.
I don?t know. The decades long point may be self-defeating in the argument against systemic segregation. Doesn?t the argument about systemic racism go all the way back to 1619? I?m pretty sure most of them freeways were built since then.
Never heard that Buttigieg said that. I looked it up and it looks like the both the worst and the best of both the onion and the Babylon bee.
I arrived in Los Angeles on February 2, 1985. The two time former Republican governor of California had within the last two weeks been sworn in for his second term as president of the United States. A lot of shit has changed.
I don?t know about the freeways across the rest of the country ? rode along a lot of them, never saw evidence that they were racist - But despite all the shit that has gotten worse in Los Angeles since I got here almost 40 years ago, one thing hasn?t changed ? the freeways are just as inclusive for everybody as always.
They play this song at pretty much every event in the city of Los Angeles, and the Imperial Highway runs straight in - and also - straight Outta Compton.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4