Redlining and Racial Terrorism
The TOPS Was a Hard-won Oasis in a Food Desert. That Made it a Target.
To be clear, the responsibility for the brutal act of racial terrorism at TOPS falls squarely on the shoulders of the shooter. It seems clear that he acting in support of the toxic “Great Replacement” conspiracy with its origins in White Supremacy.
If we look closer, however, we can see that the placement of the Jefferson Avenue TOPS was the legacy of ge…