it's worth noting that although european countries have racism and laws based on racism, their cities were (generally speaking) not designed with racism in mind. us cities were. it's also why there's little to no public transportation in certain areas. #fyp #fifaworldcup #europeansinamerica #europe #unitedstateshistory

What I want Europeans to understand as they come into the United States is that we were founded on the idea of living separately based on race. So a lot of our infrastructure is best created, best designed to be separated based on race. It's why the suburbs are so sprawling and so have so many roads that are twists and turns and you know you have to really you have to have a car in order to get anywhere in the suburbs in order to get from one end to the suburbs to the other end of the suburbs. It's impossible to do that without a car. It's why city centers are more polluted than the suburbs because they have less trees than the suburbs. Why? Because why people lived in the suburbs and people of color lived in city centers and why people couldn't live in dirty pollution, so more trees were planted in the suburbs. And that's what I want you guys to understand as you consider trying to walk here is that the reason why it's so carcentric is because cars were the thing that helped separate white people from people of color after Jim Crow was outlawed. Before then they could use the law. They could say well the Jim Crow laws say that white people should not drink from the same fountain as black people right they shouldn't go to the same schools. Afterwards they couldn't do that anymore so they had to come up with clever ways to separate and cars were the big thing that the government and car companies used to separate white people from people of color. That is why our highways are so wide because on one end of the highways on one side of the highway is white people living in their clean, sprawling, white pick-of-friends suburbs. On the other end of the highway it's people of color living in dirty city centers unless the city is walkable for the most part it's where you will find people of color generally and it's changing now but that architecture that infrastructure was based on racism it was based on race-based segregation which is why you cannot walk through it you cannot walk across any kind of highway because then that would make it too easy for people of color to get to where the white people live.