Adrianna Tan1d ago

This country is so big. I mean, I think I knew it intellectually but I don’t think I really understood it until I spent the last few days traveling through it by train. I come from a country that’s so small, you get two other countries’ cellular signal if you stand at your window.

In four days, I’ve been in three different time zones. I’m now three hours ahead of San Francisco, here in Atlanta.

I’m in the south for the first time. It might as well be a completely different country. I’ll be checking out all the museums and monuments relating to civil rights while I’m here. This place was an important place in that struggle.

http://atlantacivilrights.com/civilrights/essay_detail.asp?phase=1

Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement

Show threadAdrianna Tan1d ago

When the train was passing through Arizona, they said Navajo Nation is larger than Vermont and Massachusetts put together. It kind of broke my brain.

I’ve found that when I try to spend more time learning about Black and Native history and culture, I get a much truer sense of the U.S. today, particularly how many of today’s problems seem to be continuations of old time racism and Civil War divisions.

Show threadAdrianna Tan1d ago

Even in California, whenever someone says ‘this neighborhood is nice’ or ‘this town is safe’, I always look up redlining. Almost always, the nice, safe places are places where Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native and other people were not allowed to buy homes. This is recent history.

I am so allergic to anyone who says words like nice and safe.

Learning about redlining helps me see why

‘Safe’ is almost always a perfect match for the places where non-white people were banned from living

https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/

Mapping Inequality

Redlining in New Deal America

Show threadAndrea (Drea) Tamar Pinski

@skinnylatte
I am not so sure.
Take east palo alto. (It has been gentrified in the early 2000s, when IKEA moved in and such). But it was always not the nice part of the bay. Even heard that after the gentrification like 8 years ago.
Now Oakland and Hayward has been the not so nice parts. There are also not so nice parts of San jose.
And I hate hearing that but I have heard from non whites too.

Note I have not lived in the bay area for 8 years but I lived in San Mateo for 4 years and Sunnyvale for 8 years. I still have friends and family that live there too.

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Show threadAdrianna Tan1d ago

@pinskia the vast majority of the not so nice places of the east bay are because people of color were not allowed to live in Orinda, Lafayette, Antioch, Concord, etc

To me, 95% of ‘a place is unsafe’ can be attributed directly to racism. Even in the Bay Area. Nonwhite people can participate in racist structures too. Asians are famously anti Black. But these laws also impacted them

Show threadAdrianna Tan23h ago

@pinskia red lining in Palo Alto

https://gunnoracle.com/19991/uncategorized/a-tale-of-two-cities-how-racism-in-housing-deeds-redlining-and-gentrification-led-to-the-stark-divide-between-palo-alto-and-east-palo-alto/

A Tale of Two Cities: How racism in housing deeds, redlining and gentrification led to the stark divide between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto

The bumpy potholes and ridges lining the floor of Highway 101, the historic highway traversing California’s west coast, don’t make for a smooth ride. Despite unpleasant rush hour traffic and rough paving, countless Palo Alto residents drive the lengths of 101 daily, and unofficial landmarks are recognizable to many: the all-too-familiar blue and yellow of...

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