Posted on 11/08/2021 9:45:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Not for the first time, Pete Buttigieg is vowing to do something about America's "racist" interstate highway system. As absurdly silly as it might be for the Biden-tapped US Transportation Secretary to be prioritizing tackling supposedly racist roads, it was perhaps the question itself from a reporter that reached new asinine depths - made all the more laughable given the "seriousness" of the lengthy exchange related to last week's bipartisan infrastructure bill which passed through Congress.
This was a real question by CNN (who else?) White House correspondent April Ryan during a Monday press briefing... amid Biden admin plans to "deconstruct the racism" built into America's infrastructure, she asked: can you give us the construct of how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into roadways?"
Reporter @AprilDRyan to @PeteButtigieg: “Can you give us the construct of how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways? ... Can you talk to us about how that could be deconstructed?” pic.twitter.com/FXXEq5tuQL — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 8, 2021
Buttigieg responded: "I’m still surprised that had some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a White and a Black neighborhood or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or that would have been, in New York was designed too low for it to pass by..."
He argued that this makes it "obvious" that "racism" was built into the road system: "...that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices," he said. "We have everything to gain by acknowledging" these "racist" choices, he explained. The reference was to an April interview wherein Buttigieg claimed:
"...there is racism physically built into some of our highways."
At this point CNN's Ryan pressed him on potential efforts to actually "reconstruct communities that this happened to..." She said these roads were "meant to be racist." She seemed to define this as basically any and all beltways and roadways erected prior to the Civil Rights Act.
Meanwhile, an actual Bloomberg headline: US Will Use Infrastructure Bill to Address Racist Highway Design...
Pete Buttigieg says the U.S. will use about $1 billion from Biden's infrastructure bill to remedy racial inequities in U.S. highway design https://t.co/nTHt7e9OoW — Bloomberg (@business) November 8, 2021
"Please make our roads thinner and less racist"
This is where our media is today. https://t.co/7T8Hya03Dj — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 8, 2021
That's when Buttigieg actually seemed to agree that some overpasses and roadway infrastructure "might have to come down" - as in some of the "racist" roadwork will get demolished...
"Sometimes it really is the case that an overpass went in a certain way that is so harmful that it's gotta come down or maybe be put underground," the Transportation Secretary said.
As with prior statements from Buttigieg which present America's vast network of highways as 'systematically racist' - immediate and widespread mockery followed the Monday afternoon exchange.
The roads are racist.
We must get rid of roads. https://t.co/nde3mJHn37 — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 8, 2021
For example, Texas Senator Ted Cruz wrote in response to the exchange, which it should be noted went on for nearly three minutes: "The roads are racist. We must get rid of roads."
Interstates destroying neighborhoods is a real thing—a brain child of LBJ and the Great Society.
Between this pathetic idiot and Kommala, I live in near daily confirmation that I am living in an alternative reality....../s
Yeah, “black top” does sound a little denigrating to roadways less pigmented.
Oh just shut up!
Are turds racist because they are black or brown? Shouldn’t a concerted effort be made to change their color?
So I guess they’ll deconstruct our highways first, then reroute them from slum to slums LBJ created? Yeah, that’s going to go well LOL. But seriously, considering EVERYTHING they do is another straw on the country’s back...
The roads have all the rainbows of color. Reminds me of a song:
The roads are black
The lines are white
The stop sign are all red at night
The lines are yellow
Dirt roads are brown
And bootyedge thinks he’s a fncking mom. Thinks he’s a mom
Here comes the Hershey highways
There can be only one reason they put the white lines above the blacktop.
Yeah, but he checks all the secular, socialist boxes.
He’s an energetic, misguided, socialist fancy boy.
Pete should also consider the possibility that the interstate highway system is homophobic as well. “Manholes” should be gender neutral.
It is worst than that, our roads are homophobic! They go back and forth, not in and out!
Being Woke is simply Marxist racism.
Must be contending with Kamala and her “what race are trees?”
With the exception of the Hershey Highway.
No problem Peter, a millionaire man of color can drive his custom corvette 156mph and kill a young woman and her dog, just days before she gets LEGAL citizenship.
People of color are not helpless and seem to overcome these bigoted highway obstacles.
“ Shouldn’t a concerted effort be made to change their color?”
Duh?!? Same is true for our so-called “white” blood cells.
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