Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "'The Five' react to claim racism built into US roads, interstates" video.

@Cony Budding Trump received more votes in 2020 than any GOP candidate in history. Biden has no mandate, as recent elections prove. Mayor Pete lied about those bridges, they were designed in 1924, and buses have been reaching Jones Beach for decades. I researched the facts, so can you.
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@rexkimberley9537 Bridges in question were designed in 1924, Pete said is was to keep Puerto Ricans out, but they weren't in NYC yet, buses have been getting to Jones Beach for decades now, Pete's a liar.
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@Ribb Randy Yes, the bridges were designed in 1924 for cars. the story comes from Caros' book on Robert Moses "The Power Broker", and is an opinion. The Great Migration of Puerto Ricans occurred in the 1950s, 30 years after the bridges were built. I am also a walk-away DEM, still registered as a DEM, but did not vote that way for several cycles. In 2017 Bloomberg published a great investigative article on the Parkway bridges. Pete's scholarship is flawed.
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@brett2015 Pete got it wrong, those bridges were designed in 1924, no Puerto Ricans on buses yet, only poor white people. Buses have been making it out to Jones Beach for decades, he's a fool.
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Pete and Fox both got it wrong, the bridges in question were built before WWII by Robert Moses, and the story comes from a book about him called "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro. This story has since been debunked, but neither Fox or Pete seem to know that.
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@eversosophi9653 The book on it has already been written, and where Mayor Pete got the story, "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, and the story was debunked in 2017 by a reporter with Bloomberg, you can read about it online, great story.
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@michaelhill8441 No, the bridges mentioned were designed in 1924, Pete got this story from a book on Robert Moses, the story is incorrect, and buses have been making it out to Jones Beach for decades.
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@michaelhill8441 Redlining was not a "LAW", and the bridges mentioned were designed in 1924, before redlining under the New Deal Democrats. Pete is mistaken, and so are you.
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@michaelhill8441 The bridges Pete referenced were designed in 1924, before Democratic Redlining by the New Deal. You are incorrect. Also, buses have been getting to Jones Beach for decades.
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@michaelhill8441 Historically incorrect, my Jewish family in Boyle Heights, CA was redlined, it was about redevelopment. Some banks and real estate agents used the FHA guidelines to discriminate, yes, but you are not correct. The bridges Pete referenced were built in 1924, before Democratic New Deal redlining.
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@GDuncanFYoung The part of "redlining", to, came into being under FDR.
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Robert Moses, holder of many positions in New York government, a man of his times, did not intend there to be no buses out to Jones Beach, in fact, the BMT did go there, and there are pictures to prove it. The account Pete asserts is from Robert Caro's book, "The Power Broker", and the story Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway does not appear to be true. Bloomberg has an article by Thomas J. Campanella in 2017 everyone should read.
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@tysonfranklin9781 Look up Bloomberg 2017 Robert Moses and His Racist Parkway, Explained. Those bridges were designed in 1924 for cars, buses got to Jones Beach by other means.
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The bridges referenced were designed in 1924, and to those standards, buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades, Pete lied. He got it from a book on Robert Moses called "The Power Broker". You can research it like I did. Fake.
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Those bridges were designed in 1924, Pete's a liar, and so is Robert Caro.
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The bridges referenced were designed in 1924 and similar to the Westchester roads, Pete lied, and buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades.
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The bridges referenced were designed in 1924, well before the interstate highway act, Pete lied.
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Bridges designed in 1924, buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades, Pete's a liar, and so is Robert Caro.
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The bridges referenced were designed in 1924, and the highway system was started by the Truman admin in 1952 Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952
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The bridges referenced were designed in 1924 for cars, buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades, Pete lied. He got the story from Robert Caro's book, "The Power Broker", which was debunked in 2017 by a reporter for Bloomberg.
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Pete and Fox both got it wrong, the bridges in question were built before WWII by Robert Moses, and the story comes from a book about him called "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro. This story has since been debunked, but neither Fox or Pete seem to know that. vv
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The bridges referenced were designed in 1924, Mayor Pete is a liar.
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I have, it is well-known that both his father and mother taught at Notre Dam and were Gramsci scholars. Not a secret.
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The story comes from the book "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro. The bridges were designed in 1924, and no question for cars, but buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades, Pete is a liar.
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@Charlii931603 Bridges were designed in 1924, a decade before "redlining", which my Jewish grandparents faced in Boyle Heights, CA, and 30 years before Puerto Ricans were on buses in NYC, Mayor Pete got his "facts" mixed up.
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@rhondasisco-cleveland2665 Yes, my grandparents were redlined for Interstate 10 in Los Angeles, we are Jewish, and we were all moved out, every ethnic group.
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@Stephen W The bridges referenced were designed in 1924, Pete got it wrong, but you don't have it exactly correct, either.
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Bridges designed in 1924 for cars, but buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades, Pete lied, he based his story on a book by Robert Caro, "The Power Broker".
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The bridges he referenced were designed in 1924, and as you know, buses have been going to Jones Beach for decades, Pete lied.
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Bridges referenced designed in 1924, not racist, meant for cars only, a standard at the time, and buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades, Pete lied.
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Those bridges Pete referenced were designed in 1924, so not the post-war system you referenced, Pete lied, and buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades.
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Bridges designed in 1924 strictly for cars, but buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades, Pete lied, he took this story from Robert Caro's book, "The Power Broker" about Robert Moses, a story since debunked by a reporter for Bloomberg. The article is online and worth the read.
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Also, bridges designed in 1924, before Puerto Ricans were in NYC, and buses made it to Jones Beach for decades, yes, Pete's a liar.
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The bridges in question were built before WWII by Robert Moses, so not part of the interstate highway system. everyone got it wrong, Pete and Fox, this all came from Robert Caro's book, The Power Broker, and is incorrect.
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Bridges were designed in 1924, Pete lied.
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Bridges were designed in 1924, for a Republican, Robert Moses, but Pete lied, buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades.
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The bridges referenced were designed in 1924, 32 years before the interstate highway act, but Pete did lie, buses have been making it to Jones Beach for decades.
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Bridges built in the late 1920s before the "Great Migration from Puerto Rico" in the 1950s, Mayor Pete got that wrong, it was poor white people Moses did not want on Jones Beach, but they came anyway, LOL.
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@olicoasters "crazy" is, I believe", not new, just not "progressive", at least conservatives make no pretense at change. Mayor Pete also referenced "Puerto Ricans", but that great migration did not occur until the 1950s, 30 years after those bridges were built. Robert Moses was still a power broker, and had great control over urban renewal projects, but Mayor Pete conflated two events more than 30 years apart and stated them as fact. I find that disturbing, and more so because few care he did it. It's about character, and values, and the future, not about "bridges".
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