[jadell]

"We need to build an interstate highway system, to modernize our logistical capacity and connect our commercial centers. But we need land in those cities, and all the prime real estate is developed."

"Hmmmm...we could eminent domain some of the land."

"But from whom? A lot of those commercial centers are owned by white people!"

"How about the equally affluent Black neighborhoods in those cities? Let's just bulldoze those, wiping out generational wealth that took them decades to build, and permanently dividing them off from their cities' downtowns, making it next to impossible to share in the prosperity the new infrastructure will bring with it!"

"Brilliant! Smith, you're a genius!"

It's not always as obvious as firebombing and massacres. Those are the exceptions. It's usually much more insidious and subtle than that.

[DoreenMichele]

This is the reason I made the above comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23395293

I replied to it at the time with a reference to the Black Wall Street Massacre.

I just thought I would try to preempt similar remarks here.

It's possibly a waste of my time and possibly not, but it's my time to waste as I see fit.

[jadell]

I don't disagree with anything you said in your original comment. I was adding additional commentary that systemic racism isn't always overt acts of violent destruction. Many times it's subtle acts of state-sponsored legal maneuvering using the excuse of "for the greater good."