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this point made me think of a really important distinction in realizing how sheltered my thinking is/was on stuff like this https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1275866892960509954
when you move to LA it takes you ages to get around to neighborhoods and even longer to sort them out, but i still remember going to West Adams for the first time cause they have a polish food festival in one of the churches & it's hard to find perogies in this town
anyway, i'd never been to West Adams and if you drive around a little, you see houses like nowhere else & you also realize you are on a hill and the views/light are amazing & you think "ok what's the deal"
so i read about it & it turns out it was one of the oldest/richest neighborhoods in town & after a lot of people there bailed once Beverly Hills got developed, a lot of rich African Americans moved in and turned it into a cultural hub.
It was even a huge part of overturning horrible housing policy that had made white homeowners sign a thing saying they'd never sell to black people and "hurt the market". Amazing place! But once that happened, the city built the Santa Monica Freeway right through it.
BUT, when I heard that, my reaction was "Man, isn't that awful, the city didn't even *care* that their plans went right through this place because the people here were Black" - it took ages to realize it's not that they didn't care - that was WHY it's there. That was the point.
it seems like a small-ish shift, but there's lots of stuff like that, where things were done not just because they didn't care enough, but they were actively trying to destroy something. It reframes how you feel about so many things.
People not caring seems hard to fight - how do you start, but when you realize that they're not just not-caring, but actively waging a war, then you gotta side up.
