An article in The Pitch today really caught my eye.
Developer eyes Troost for immigrant child detention center
A detention center.
For immigrants.
Minorities.
In a part of town segregated, by law, by laws, decades ago, for minorities, for African-Americans.
Could they be more time deaf or blind?
And I assume this developer wants to put it there because--hello?--land and property and buildings over on that side of town are less expensive??
Because of that same racism and legalized segregation all those years ago?
Could you be more cruel? Or exploitative?
This very much reminds me of the prisons that were opened and created in the Southern United States that were put on former plantations. Own them first the, when you don't own them any more, trump up charges and throw them in jails and prisons.
And then, if you read the article, which I personally highly recommend, for what it's worth, you'll see how the company that runs these ICE shelters for the government, has been abusive and racist, to say the least and repeatedly, over time.
America, we're supposed to be better than this.
One thing seems sure and true.
Old J.C. Nichols would probably have approved.
