Saturday, November 13, 2021

New Highway Bill Will Address Racist Construction in the Past

“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, 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, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg explained.

Republican Ted Cruz responded in a typical clueless manner of a man on top of many hierarchies who refuses to look at the truth.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/9/2063228/-Once-again-Sen-Cruz-misses-the-point-completely-this-time-connecting-race-and-U-S-infrastructure?fbclid=IwAR1YYDImGoQeVN8srXE_0uajAqX2EyeHQXA27j-TWrifp8y69IVfktt-tXo