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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plenty of white people have land taken by eminent domain. It happened to friends of our family. It’s not a race thing. Sometimes individuals have to sacrifice for the greater good. [/quote]

Actually it is when it happens at a higher rate to Black families. From the article that I’m guessing you didn’t bother to read:

[i]A federal program that provided financial incentives for university expansions was responsible for displacing nearly 20,000 families in the U.S. between 1959 and 1966, according to University of Richmond professor Robert Nelson, who has compiled an online database on the topic. [b]While working-class white residents were also dislodged, roughly 40% were Black families, about four times the Black proportion of the U.S. population at the time. Local and state programs expelled thousands more Black families, [/b]like the Shoe Lane homeowners, for higher-education projects.[/i]

But go on. Tell us more about how there’s no racism because you know a Black family that’s wealthy and some white people that are poor. [/quote]

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