We, the people of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, deserve better. We are better. We must not continue with the ways of the past. Almost fifty years ago, the State of Tennessee began construction of Interstate Forty in North Nashville--Jubilee City, if you will. This decimated the community. This is the community that served as a model for other cities trying to grapple with the still-recent ruling of Brown v. The Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas . This U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck down their previous 1896 ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson , which held to the notion of "separate but equal." The first ruling justified segregation as constitutional. Hence, Jim Crow prevailed in its start and attempt to create a second class citizenry of peoples they only a short time ago freed from chattel and generational bondage. Yet and still, we, the descendants of the ones who were placed into a bondage that took away all freedom, dignity, and humanity, are still not free. We are not free,...
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