Mx. Amadi Lovelace on Nostr: When I see white climate activists talk about the need to “rebuild our cities,” ...
When I see white climate activists talk about the need to “rebuild our cities,” it doesn’t bring to mind forward thinking solutions, it brings to mind decades of “urban renewal” in which the communities that were demolished, cleaved in half, isolated, or considered ideal for a New Thing were ones where Black and brown people had lived, but could no longer because their homes were taken or became unaffordable. The “at any cost” tenor of the rhetoric doesn’t seem considerate of who really pays.
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