{"id":1646499,"date":"2022-09-19T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646499"},"modified":"2022-09-19T07:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:08:53","slug":"why-not-biden-starts-handing-out-grants-to-rid-us-of-racist-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-not-biden-starts-handing-out-grants-to-rid-us-of-racist-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not: Biden Starts Handing Out Grants to Rid Us of &#8220;Racist&#8221; Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-not-biden-starts-handing-out-grants-to-rid-us-of-racist-highways%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646499&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden has now officially taken his overcompensation for being an old white guy to the next level by handing out the first federal grants to dismantle our nation\u2019s racist highways.<\/p>\n<p>That is not a typo.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than devoting federal resources to improving our national infrastructure, Biden is wasting millions to address the problem of \u201cracist roads.\u201d What makes a road racist? I\u2019m just the messenger here, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-reidout\/reidout-blog\/interstate-375-detroit-racist-infrastructure-rcna47912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> MSNBC, so-called \u201cracist roads\u201d being targeted by Biden were \u201cdesigned to facilitate white flight and deprive black communities of housing and commercial opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow white dude Pete Buttigieg, who occasionally makes appearances pretending to be the Transportation Secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/race-and-ethnicity-michigan-detroit-19ab33724ff8584ad6db2413055ca0c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> that $104.6 million in federal funds from last year\u2019s bipartisan infrastructure bill will be used to dismantle Interstate 375 in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>And the world will once again be a better place.<em> Hallelujah, can I get an amen?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis stretch of I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, one of many examples I have seen in communities across the country where a piece of infrastructure has become a barrier,\u201d Buttigieg told the Associated Press. \u201cWith these funds, we\u2019re now partnering with the state and the community to transform it into a road that will connect rather than divide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, \u201cDetroit\u2019s project would create a slower-speed boulevard that aims to improve safety by removing a steep curve and adding LED lighting, while removing 15 old bridges and two stormwater runoff pump stations and building out wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes and pedestrian crossings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Racism: solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has now officially taken his overcompensation for being an old white guy to the next level by handing out the first federal grants to dismantle our nation\u2019s racist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1646501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1646501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}