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You can argue that historical actions have caused unequal outcomes, but that doesn't mean that today this decision [to make access to a park based on residence] is racist. That doesn't logically follow.



People are still being excluded because of their race, it doesn't matter if you changed the rules once that exclusion was locked in or not. That's a bait and switch justification.


Your logic doesn't follow. I'm white. I don't live in Palo Alto. I wouldn't be allowed in.


Something can be racist by affecting some races more than others, it's not binary.


The park has had that restriction almost since the day it was opened. In 1965.




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