Cincinnati apologizes for wrongly evicting thousands in the 1950’s. Didn’t FC Cincinnati just do that?
This week, the city of Cincinnati announced that they would formally apologize for destroying an entire neighborhood in the 1950s. At the time, Cincinnati claimed it was an “urban renewal” project. In reality, the city was evicting 25,000 poor, non-white people so that a new business district and a new interstate road could be created. In private, the city called it a “slum clearance”. Not to worry, though, as the 1950s city government promised to…
