Blog Post #3

A few interesting facets from the two readings fixed my attention. First, reading what exactly the 1928 Master Plan did to people caught me off-guard. It should be of no surprise people can have little regard to another, but there was something profound learning of just how little regard the city of Austin demonstrated. The city completely took advantage of minorities by forcing them to move and create a new life. The article outlined how unfairly these people were treated. It is mind blowing how no one cared about up-rooting the minorities then, and now many years later, extensions of the minorities families are being faced with an up-rooting of their own. Still, few seem to care. The lack of ability to empathize with the minorities is from the creation of segregation. People don’t view the minorities as equals to themselves. It is hard for majorities to put themselves in minority’s shoes they believe to be fundamentally different. Comparatively, I found interesting the second article characterized a few minorities who were up-rooted to East Austin. The article exemplified that beyond color, the majorities and minorities were two in the same. Each had friends, family, hardships, businesses, and worth in the world.