Bicycles are now considered RACIST. (healthcare, solution, free speech, economic)
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Funny, because "Bicycles are now considered RACIST" is completely made up.
good catch!
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I don't think that's what they are trying to say. I live in Sacramento County and most of the county is unincorporated. You only find bike lanes and bike paths in the wealthier neighborhoods or incorporated areas. Elsewhere unless it's a new subdivision there are very few bike lanes/paths and no sidewalks or street lights. We also have major streets with no traffic control where the average speed is 50 mph. I don't live in a poor neighborhood but it's older and adjacent to a major thoroughfare. I fear for my life going for a walk and having cars speeding past 18" away. I would never let my grandkids ride bikes in the area.
I don't see it as having anything to do with race, but rather money. The people in toney neighborhoods have the connections and money necessary to get the board of supervisors to make their neighborhoods 'bike and pedestrian friendly' while those who live in poor parts of the county are basically ignored - if they actually bother to complain.
This mobility "inequity" probably affects more white people in the US than minorities. Yet somehow they turn it on universal White people, even poor ones who have the same issues.
Things are so bad in my old neighborhood where many of the same families still live, that cars are regularly driving off the road at high speed crashing into houses, poles and cars parked in driveways. Some are hit and runs. The city digs up the road for utility work and leaves sloppy potholes. My friend that lives there does not know if a pole or a pothole was hit, because the bang-boom sound is the same and goes on day and night. Trees on the utility right of way are leaning into electrical wires and the power company will not remove them or takes several years to do so. City does nothing. One of the trees fell on a moving car on a calm afternoon, if two seconds difference, driver would have been killed. This is not a minority area, but not a wealthy one. Still, property taxes are quite high. There IS apathy among residents, many are older. I called the road dept for my elderly friend to complain about speed and potholes, and some manager guy with bad grammar got testy with me.
I feel no real sympathy that some minority neighborhood doesn't have bike lanes, when there are residential areas like above, basically a 24/7 death zone, where it is unsafe to be in the front yard or a front room inside the house.
This mobility "inequity" probably affects more white people in the US than minorities. Yet somehow they turn it on universal White people, even poor ones who have the same issues.
Things are so bad in my old neighborhood where many of the same families still live, that cars are regularly driving off the road at high speed crashing into houses, poles and cars parked in driveways. Some are hit and runs. The city digs up the road for utility work and leaves sloppy potholes. My friend that lives there does not know if a pole or a pothole was hit, because the bang-boom sound is the same and goes on day and night. Trees on the utility right of way are leaning into electrical wires and the power company will not remove them or takes several years to do so. City does nothing. One of the trees fell on a moving car on a calm afternoon, if two seconds difference, driver would have been killed. This is not a minority area, but not a wealthy one. Still, property taxes are quite high. There IS apathy among residents, many are older. I called the road dept for my elderly friend to complain about speed and potholes, and some manager guy with bad grammar got testy with me.
I feel no real sympathy that some minority neighborhood doesn't have bike lanes, when there are residential areas like above, basically a 24/7 death zone, where it is unsafe to be in the front yard or a front room inside the house.
I agree it's not a racial issue, or shouldn't be..but honestly this 'seminar' is a nothing burger and will have zero impact on any transportation decisions made in the state, the site it is on just trolls obscure stuff like that to make it sound like it's a big deal or something that all liberals agree with, and it's neither.
At least here the board of supervisors approve all infrastructure projects and for whatever reason the sidewalks, bike lanes and street lights always go to the wealthy part of the county. However since most of the budget this year is going to pay lawsuits regarding the Sheriff's Dept I doubt if anyone will even see a pothole filled until 2021.
Well here goes. I'm a triathlete and I race rather expensive high end bicycles. I put in a couple of hundred miles per week. That said, some of the very worst roads to ride are in very wealthy areas like La Jolla, Pacific Beach and Point Loma. These are usually some of the older parts of the city too. Much of the older parts of the city have streets that aren't wide enough for bike lanes. The nice bike lanes are in areas like N County here which are much newer neighborhoods.
I'm also not white so that angle just doesn't add up. I see ten old beater beach cruisers riding for every top end bicycle. Now granted, I do see mostly white people on higher end rigs but since our local makeup is mostly white people that only makes sense.
I think I recall kayaking being targeted as racist/appropriation not too long ago.
You look up the "stuff white people like" list, pick something on it, and label it white supremacist and colonialist because that is what SJWs do.
I don't think this topic has much to do with "SJWs". A group at UC Davis decided to have a symposium discuss "mobility justice", I doubt if the "SJWs" will be there in large numbers The event was posted by a right wing group on their website to get people all riled up and given your reaction it appears to have worked.
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The event was posted by a right wing group on their website to get people all riled up and given your reaction it appears to have worked.
