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Buttigieg's star rises as $1T Biden agenda shifts toward him
ABC News ^ | 11/14/2021 | HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press

Posted on 11/14/2021 6:21:38 AM PST by Scarlett156

WASHINGTON -- Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary who holds the purse strings to much of President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package, was holding forth with reporters on its impact — the promise of more electric cars, intercity train routes, bigger airports — when a pointed question came.

How would he go about building racial equity into infrastructure?

The 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate laid out his argument that highway design can reflect racism, noting that at least $1 billion in the bill will help reconnect cities and neighborhoods that had been racially segregated or divided by road projects.

“I’m still surprised that 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 ... that obviously reflects racism,” he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; corruption; infrastructure; transportation
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To: Scarlett156

Prepare to be sodomized, America.


21 posted on 11/14/2021 6:39:05 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Scarlett156
Buttigieg’s star is only rising to backward, depraved swamp rats. ABC's propaganda has entered sick fantasy land. I wonder if ABC's readers are smart enough to connect this drivel to the shortages they are experiencing.
22 posted on 11/14/2021 6:42:32 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: butlerweave

“I’m still surprised that 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 ... that obviously reflects racism,” he said.

He to read the book about I-94 and Chicago’s Maxwell Street.

It also divided white from white and black from black neighborhoods if anyone is paying attention, unless its a tunnel a highway is a pedestrian and economic barrier. It is only put up as a valid point since it is on the front steps of UIC.


23 posted on 11/14/2021 6:44:00 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: adorno
It's backdoor reparations - this infrastructure bill will be a bigger boondoggle than Obama's "shovel ready jobs" disaster. No white bidders on construction projects allowed so we'll end up with never started projects or a string of half finished projects from coast to coast and of course, there will be no spending in flyover rural areas because that's Trump Country!

Sad that no one could have predicted this.

13 RINO sons of bitches helped pass it in the House too - - think on that awhile.

24 posted on 11/14/2021 6:45:49 AM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: adorno; Scarlett156
Well, everyone knows roads are racist. It is a perfect fit!
25 posted on 11/14/2021 6:48:03 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: atc23
No white bidders on construction projects allowed

As long as it's Democrat contributors and union labor, I think they'll take any color.

26 posted on 11/14/2021 6:48:35 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Scarlett156

This has been the plan since the start.

The ONLY thing he has going for him is that he is not a million years old.

Let’s see if we can get the ships unloaded before the mid terms.


27 posted on 11/14/2021 6:48:54 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Scarlett156; PGalt
Thanks, Pete.........


28 posted on 11/14/2021 6:49:12 AM PST by 4Liberty (Let's go Brandon 👏 ...👏 ...👏👏👏 https://youtu.be/qr_F_XQrukM?t=1)
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To: Scarlett156

ABC News isn’t news.


29 posted on 11/14/2021 6:50:42 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Bernard

just his hormones kicking up during his maternity leave?

He might be suffering from no-partum depression.


30 posted on 11/14/2021 6:51:27 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Bernard

I’m sure he’s gotten quite an education since becoming SecTrans. No way he thought up that BS without help.


31 posted on 11/14/2021 6:53:07 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Scarlett156

As I recall at my ripe old age the roads were built which created real estate voids for multiple reasons. None of which were intentional racism, but actually many of the reasons being with the intent to address the locales disrupted by the need of road construction of the day. Nobody went into this with malice of forethought, or premeditated racism.

I can see how Leftists would like to stir up racism any way they possibly can to further their Commie agenda, but this one would be disproven too easily with a simple quick glance at history.


32 posted on 11/14/2021 6:55:03 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: protoconservative
I thought last week he was talking about the interstates destroying Black neighborhoods (as well as parkways with low underpasses). You could certainly call bulldozing Black neighborhoods racist.

To put a highway on the dividing lines between neighborhoods is to make race an issue, but saying that it's racist and therefore bad is -- given how things were at the time -- too much to expect people to simply accept as a fact.

In the context of the times, it can be difficult to separate policies that were designed to disadvantage minorities from those that were intended to keep racial tensions from flaring up into violence.

Today, we divide legislative districts on racial lines. Race is an issue there, but is that also racist?

33 posted on 11/14/2021 6:55:14 AM PST by x
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To: Scarlett156

“”the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a Black neighborhood ... that obviously reflects racism,” he said.””

And the MSM can report that with a straight face????

He needs to investigate and report back to the people who pay his salary, just how many highways were built for that reason.


34 posted on 11/14/2021 6:59:39 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Mr. K

The New York Times takes a bow they did their fair share.


35 posted on 11/14/2021 6:59:57 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Scarlett156
How would he go about building racial equity into infrastructure?

A KFC and Taco Bell at every exit!

36 posted on 11/14/2021 7:01:01 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: JonPreston
This acclaim is a bit much for a man who hasn’t yet mastered breast feeding.

He still hasn't recovered from boiling his nipples.

37 posted on 11/14/2021 7:02:10 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: x

“”I thought last week he was talking about the interstates destroying Black neighborhoods (as well as parkways with low underpasses)””

That is what was reported - as insane as it was...I think they’re holding competition in DC to see who can come up with the most stupid asinine statements...


38 posted on 11/14/2021 7:02:55 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Scarlett156

VP in waiting?

He is not quite as vapid as Kamala Harris, but close to it.

He pushes all the right lefty buttons: working new mommy, non-combat military, and looks like a milquetoast (albeit Mad Magazine style).

At least he has nice hair.

And dresses the part. His pantsuits fit, and his topcoat doesn’t look like a potato sack.


39 posted on 11/14/2021 7:07:29 AM PST by OpusatFR (TimetoRexissoon)
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To: Scarlett156
Who writes this crap? The P.E.N.E.S.?

The Proagandist Echochamber Narcacist Egotistical Supplanted, school of journalism?

It's embarrassing.

40 posted on 11/14/2021 7:08:28 AM PST by blackdog (Jab Dodger. )
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