Just imagine if one of several year-long themes of New Albany's bicentennial celebration would have been "back to the future" in the context of topics precisely like this one (bicycling, street usage and the urban grid).
Think how the money spent on the celebration would have been twice as useful, because it would have helped to raise consciousness about lives to come.
Ponder how instead, we've had living white people focusing almost entirely on dead white people. It's been such a profound, sad waste of time and money, purposefully placed outside the realm of accountability.
See Eric Vance Martin's slide show at the Floyd Action Network web site.
Maybe we still have time to pull something hopeful form the mire.
The important take away:"
"Conscious policy decisions got us where we are. Conscious policy decisions can get us where we want to be. Each of us can influence the decisions if we let our public officials and the media know what we want and what we don't want."
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