Sunday, April 11, 2021

Pete Buttigieg: Racism is 'physically built into' country's highways | Washington Examiner

Pete Buttigieg: Racism is 'physically built into' country's highways | Washington Examiner
  • Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg suggested in a recent interview that racism is built into the country's highway system.
“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,” the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor told reporter April Ryan this week in an interview discussing President Joe Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
Buttigieg explained that several major highways in the United States negatively affect minority communities...Read all.

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