Milwaukee’s segregated citizens have been the victim of slow violence for decades.
“(Slow violence) is the kind of disaster that is so slow, so normalized, you don’t think of it as violence. So you think that poor neighborhoods obviously have a lot of potholes and broken windows and boarded up houses and empty lots because they’re poor, right? But it’s produced, and it’s produced over a long period of policies,” said UWM associate professor of history Arijit Sen.