This article is exactly the kind of stuff people like DeSantis call "woke."

Woke should be rebranded "truth" by the rest of us. We need to crowd out the voices of the right.

I grew up in Chicago, split on one side by the Dan Ryan, which tore through fantastic Black neighborhoods on the South Side, and the Ike, which split the haves and have-nots up on the west side of town.

I've lived in Austin, where I-35 did the same thing.

I now live in Atlanta. Same thing.

Interstate 20, the east-west corridor, follows a circuitous route that the Mayor during the time the interstates were built, Bill Hartsfield, actually just went ahead and called it like he saw it: “the boundary between the white and Negro communities." It was designed as a barrier.

In Oak Park, Illinois, you can't use residential streets as thru streets because they're blocked off. They simply end in a way that prevents you from traveling easily from the residential streets of Oak Park to the more "dangerous" Chicago Austin neighborhoods. That kind of street architecture exists all across the United States.

So this kind of stuff isn't limited to interstates.

The question becomes, "how to rectify it?" No idea.