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Robert Moses's Racist Parkways and Old-School Racism at Chaminade
from Many Feathered Bird · #68
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minDiscussion of Robert Moses deliberately designing Long Island parkways to exclude Black bus riders, followed by a story about shocking, old-school racist attitudes still present among wealthy Catholic school kids at Chaminade, and a story about overhearing racist comments during the Mayweather-McGregor fight.
- 26:47Robert Moses built causeways on Long Island specifically designed so buses and trucks carrying Black kids couldn't access the beaches, effectively segregating them from white spaces.
- 27:17Tim talks to a kid at Chaminade and learns the racism there is still shocking—old-school, retro racism that feels almost impressive in its antiquation.
- 27:51Tim observes that working-class fathers who are racists pass it down, but wealthy doctors and brokers in Belmont do the same thing, making it a class-spanning disease.
- 28:25At the Mayweather-McGregor fight, rich guys in his group were constantly dropping racist slurs about Black people and Latinos, turning the whole night gross.
- 29:32Chaminade has only about six Black kids and Long Island remains incredibly segregated despite Tim's Catholic school having been genuinely diverse with half the class Black students.
- 30:07Tim's diverse Catholic school had Black kids, openly gay kids, and apparently teachers fucking students—everyone was having a good time with minimal bullying.
- 30:39There's a real sickness and anger out there evidenced by good-looking college-age alt-right kids with every opportunity talking about needing a homeland for themselves.
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