Turns out bridges can be racist :marseyshrug:

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Robert Moses has been dead for 43 years now and not a day goes by without some urbanist cute twink going :soyjaktantrum: in his remembrance.

That's the kind of legacy I want to leave. :marseyadmire:

And you know what the funny thing is? The guy lived up to 92 and never once drove a car.

!chuds be like Robert Moses.

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never once drove a car

its gonna be a "yikes" and "my brother in christ" from me dawgg

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maybe he was a van chad

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He had a chauffeur

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I had no idea the impact a singular :chudsey: could have

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STL was a test city for the Highway system, and they didn't build exits in black neighborhoods, saying they were "areas of low economic interest"

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They should have left it that way, have you ever accidentally taken an exit into East STL? :marseysweating:

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Drive through to go to family gathering in Illinois :marseywholesome:

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are there still no exits in black neighborhoods in STL?

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There are fewer, but they've added them over time, and it wasn't none, but very few

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Need mo money fo dem programz :marseyhomofascist:

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I feel like if they gave like a 2 second explanation instead of just saying "bridge racist" this would be even more of a nothingburger than it already is.

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But the explanations they would give would out them as intending exactly what they said

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Especially to people of border disregarding.

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/17116526689767027.webp

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Robert Moses wasn't even racist. Some cute twink :marseypizzashillblacked: just invented the idea that he was in order to write :marseyretardnotes: a book which no one actually :marseyakshually: read but gets cited through a long game of telephone.

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Huh, and I expected the short bus to be filled with blacks and Puerto Ricans

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more like moon cricket

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:#marseymooncricket:

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>I don't have the crayons

What?

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I mean, Bob mo famously did intentionally design the southern and northern state parkways to be too small for buses. Same with the fdr drive.

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holy shit the amount of :quote: actually highways literally are racist :quote: on twitter the last few days IS FRICKING KILLING ME. JESUS CHRIST EVERY FRICKING THING IS RACIST APPARENTLY. :hysterical:

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Is crayons the new spoonies? :marseyconfused2:

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