However, there are racist trees. The one in my neighbor’s front yard has been calling me names for years. I wish Biden would allocate some money to get rid of it.
Posted on 09/19/2022 10:44:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joe Biden has now officially taken his overcompensation for being an old white guy to the next level by handing out the first federal grants to dismantle our nation’s racist highways.
That is not a typo.
Rather than devoting federal resources to improving our national infrastructure, Biden is wasting millions to address the problem of “racist roads.” What makes a road racist? I’m just the messenger here, but according to MSNBC, so-called “racist roads” being targeted by Biden were “designed to facilitate white flight and deprive black communities of housing and commercial opportunities.”
Fellow white dude Pete Buttigieg, who occasionally makes appearances pretending to be the Transportation Secretary, confirmed that $104.6 million in federal funds from last year’s bipartisan infrastructure bill will be used to dismantle Interstate 375 in Detroit.
And the world will once again be a better place. Hallelujah, can I get an amen?
“This stretch of I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, one of many examples I have seen in communities across the country where a piece of infrastructure has become a barrier,” Buttigieg told the Associated Press. “With these funds, we’re now partnering with the state and the community to transform it into a road that will connect rather than divide.”
According to the Associated Press, “Detroit’s project would create a slower-speed boulevard that aims to improve safety by removing a steep curve and adding LED lighting, while removing 15 old bridges and two stormwater runoff pump stations and building out wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes and pedestrian crossings.”
Racism: solved.
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“I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, “
Hyperbole much?
What are they going to do? Paint the yellow and white lines black?
” infrastructure has become a barrier”
Ummm-—so they want to get rid of infrastructure because it’s a barrier? They literally want to starve these areas and leave them to buses and trains only to get in and out-—all under the guise of “racism”.
I guess there’s a Cornpop Boulevard in some town’s future.
Yeah, I really don’t like Buttigieg using the word gash. He needs to stick to what he knows.
US 1 has got to go because the US is not #1 and ,like all other Highways, it has the letters ‘US’, which is the most racist nation on Earth and the most racist nation in world history!!!
Let’s rename them all after the patron saints of Socialism and Marxism: Marx 1, Che 5, Stalin 95 etc.
What deprives “black communities of housing and commercial opportunities.”
is nitwits burning down their own communities, being involved in gang violence, and otherwise being colossal douchebags.
375 was a poorly designed freeway, is underutilized, and in terrible condition.
It needs to go away.
What the hell role does race play in this?
However, there are racist trees. The one in my neighbor’s front yard has been calling me names for years. I wish Biden would allocate some money to get rid of it.
Somebody listened to “Pink Houses” too many times back in the 80s.
“create a slower-speed boulevard”
Because it’s too hard to carjack at high speeds
Could be worse. Could be it's a long day livin' in Reseda and where There's a freeway runnin' through the yard.
So they’re going to do what to stop white flight, build a wall? And to bring in economic and housing opportunities for blacks? Eliminate cash bail?
It is the #1 view in the world....
“black bottom” in Detroit was already a black (and poor) area, having had inward migration from the south for 2+ decades already. The progressive planners of that era thought - let’s build beautiful highways for cars, and sewers, and move all these poor black folk into brand new public housing!
Now leftists hate cars, and tell us all that progressive social engineering didn’t work out so well.
This all began when mayor buttplug said roads are racist because the overpasses were built at a height that didn’t allow city busses to pass under them, thereby limiting blacks ability to travel further than that.
I guess black folks don’t own cars.
how freakin’ absolutely insane are these people?
The reason for inequality is inequality
It’s not racist, but big highways like this in the middle of cities do create a “the other side of the tracks” situation and divide areas
I’d rather they focus on why improving things like this are better for cities in other ways not the racism part
They’ve been reducing lanes and changing major roads like this where I live and it’s so much better
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