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Buttigieg Claims Racism Is ‘Physically Built’ Into U.S. Interstate System
The Daily wire ^ | 10 Apr 2021 | Jon Brown

Posted on 04/11/2021 4:23:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg claimed in a recent interview that racism is “physically built” into parts of the U.S. highway system.

Responding to an allegation from theGrio White House correspondent April Ryan that the interstate system was “built on a racist system” meant “to keep certain groups in and certain groups out,” Buttigieg agreed, saying, “Yeah, often this wasn’t just an act of neglect. Often this was a conscious choice. There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that’s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars.”

“Well, if you’re in Washington, I’m told that the history of that highway is one that was built at the expense of communities of color in the D.C. area,” Buttigieg continued, according theGrio. “There are stories, and I think Philadelphia and Pittsburgh [and] in New York, Robert Moses famously saw through the construction of a lot of highways.”

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Now roads, inanimate constructs used as a path of transportation, are racist.

I saw video of this butt-**** riding his bike to work last week. Yes, he gets his four SUV escort to within about half a mile of his office, then dismounts and rides his bike the last leg (escorted of course). What a jerk.

1 posted on 04/11/2021 4:23:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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Pinko Pete.


2 posted on 04/11/2021 4:24:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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The Stupid really say stupid things


3 posted on 04/11/2021 4:25:05 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Oh, and he has also proposed the idea of a mileage tax.


4 posted on 04/11/2021 4:25:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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“Pete Buttigieg”, the White Privileged son of a Commie Prof.


5 posted on 04/11/2021 4:25:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Rummyfan

And people voted for this.


6 posted on 04/11/2021 4:26:11 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: BenLurkin

Buttplug has his brain up his.....take a guess....


7 posted on 04/11/2021 4:26:36 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Rummyfan

Racial politics is America’s cancer


8 posted on 04/11/2021 4:27:04 PM PDT by PGR88
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I have invented a device that removes racism from our infrastructure, maybe he could lease it,


9 posted on 04/11/2021 4:27:17 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny
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Another grievance of how the “man”made it unfair .
Im really tired of the endless complaining and demands for money.


10 posted on 04/11/2021 4:27:41 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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Being a pandering fool does not absolve one of their White
Fragility.

ButtEdge2Edge proves the case.


11 posted on 04/11/2021 4:28:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Between Clinton and Obama we had 16 years of Progressivism in the White House. Why was this not resolved? I don’t recall it even being mentioned. It’s almost like Pete is full of crap or something.


12 posted on 04/11/2021 4:29:10 PM PDT by cdcdawg (WTF is "Jim Eagle?")
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Pete. Stop, and just listen to yourself.
Does your remark make any sense whatsoever?
No, Pete. No it does not. Who are you trying to impress?


13 posted on 04/11/2021 4:29:33 PM PDT by lee martell
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Obviously gotta get rid of all that Black asphalt


14 posted on 04/11/2021 4:30:10 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they are excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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The way he talks and acts, this guy has got to be smoking some dynamite s***-and at taxpayer expense, too...


15 posted on 04/11/2021 4:30:10 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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Buttigieg Claims Racism Is ‘Physically Built’ Into U.S. Interstate System

Opened up a box a corn flakes this morning, and sure enough, there was racism inside.

There was also racism hiding under my bed. It's everywhere.

Boo!

16 posted on 04/11/2021 4:30:34 PM PDT by FreeReign
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I guess what he is trying to say is that some decisions on where to build highways was decided, at least in part, based on the demographics of where people lived.

But what are we supposed to do about it now? Spend hundreds of billions to tear them down? That money could actually do a lot of real good for real people. So I’d say their decision to waste all that money to blow up highways is equally racist. And, meanwhile, people living in those areas will lose access to highways and spend more time in traffic and breathing exhaust in the streets.


17 posted on 04/11/2021 4:31:06 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Total Insanity Alert!

18 posted on 04/11/2021 4:31:36 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Samuel Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: big bad easter bunny

That’s RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


19 posted on 04/11/2021 4:32:37 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Enemies of the US must be laughing their heads off , they’ll just wait and walk in and take the US when these fools brings it to it’s knees


20 posted on 04/11/2021 4:33:08 PM PDT by butlerweave
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