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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Because he has demonstrated such competence!
Oops, sorry not that.
Actually it is because he is a protected class and perceived as immune from criticism.
Yes, because this is what America is really worried about, how to fit racial equity into bridges and roads.
Yep, Dems, keep running on this crap. Let's see how it pays off.
Much like Biden, Buttigieg has done nothing, and what little he has tried to do, he messed up.
That’s a star? He is gay though, and that makes him a hero to the left.
After AOC and the Squad voted against it.
They basically said, "Let's give Biden and Pelosi a much needed win while allowing the Progressive Caucus to save face! Because we're congressional Republicans and being cowards is what we're good at!"
I am struck my the difference in attitudes about Trump and Biden by both the political parties and media.
Trump desperately wanted an infrastructure bill and got nothing, all while his party was in power.
The republicans did nothing to make it happen. Nothing.
The difference was that he wanted a bill that would actually accomplish something. He wanted to renovate our infrastructure. This bill will be yet another grift by the ruling class.
The top guys in both parties will get their money. Meanwhile we get this breathless bs reporting?
I am willing to bet we see little to nothing in 2 years. Maybe they will put road signs up like Obama did in 2009.
Male nursing stations to be installed at all EV charging stations.
I thought people could live pretty much where ever they wanted now. So Pete is going to put rail and highways in “black” neighborhoods? Martin Luther King’s dream has truly failed, so sad for any of us who saw the “rightness” of it.
The Ruling Class has kicked Biden to the curb already.
If Buttgigity is the best Dems have, America will rise again.
This is the birth of a narrative. They realize Harris is a nonstarter so this is the start of the effort to highlight this spud and show he has great competence
Well dawn lemmon may rise to buttgigity’s occasion.
I smell it too.
Fagswill lead us into a pit.
Sad state of freedom of speech on FR, can't even call a fag a fag.
I just cannot see this man elected for President. Too phony, plastic. Not to mention that he has no experience in foreign affairs.
He DOES know how to take off time from work
If this guy wasn’t gay he wouldn’t be elected dog catcher. Mayor Butt-giggity, and his enablers, makes me sick.
It was supposed to be Obama , Clinton and then Buttigieg !
Incompetent fag in charge of squandering unimaginable tax dollars 🤪
LOL!!!
Amusing replies. Sorry I can’t answer them all.
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