The Unintentional Racism Found in Traffic Signals

Just because something doesn’t use an offensive mascot doesn’t mean it can’t reinforce a broken system

David Kaufman
LEVEL
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5 min readJul 7, 2020

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David Kaufman
LEVEL
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Editor, writer, father, husband hummus-lover and ex-Cali guy living in NYC.