Reply #55: "Urban renewal" = "Negro removal" [View All]

[wpelb]

There's been a lot of reaction through the years to Kelo, including efforts to pass draconian anti-land-use-planning laws that many find objectionable. But wealthy and upper-middle-class whites aren't the only ones who find "eminent domain" laws as interpreted under Kelo to be problematic. These laws can be used to engage in "urban renewal," a euphemism, as implied in the title, for getting rid of black people. The only blacks that wealthy city planners and developers want to see in their neighborhoods are those in basketball shorts.