{"id":986468,"date":"2021-11-08T19:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=986468"},"modified":"2021-11-08T19:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:28:55","slug":"cnn-reporter-presses-pete-buttigieg-on-his-plan-to-deconstruct-racism-built-in-roadways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-reporter-presses-pete-buttigieg-on-his-plan-to-deconstruct-racism-built-in-roadways\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Reporter Presses Pete Buttigieg On His Plan To \u2018Deconstruct Racism\u2019 Built In Roadways"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fcnn-reporter-presses-pete-buttigieg-on-his-plan-to-deconstruct-racism-built-in-roadways%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=986468&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<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"35.862623762376\">\n<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was pressed by a CNN reporter Monday to explain how he would \u201cdeconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg spoke about the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/06\/13-house-republicans-infrastructure-bill\/\">recently passed<\/a> by the House during Monday\u2019s White House briefing, where he was asked to outline his plan to address the racism that undergirded public <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/12\/wyoming-sen-barrasso-fact-checks-biden-infrastructure-sheet\/\">transportation infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of transportation said that investment programs that could potentially benefit the disadvantaged communities would be reviewed on a \u201cprogram by program, mode by mode\u201d basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome 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 \u2026 was designed too low for it to pass by, then that obviously reflect the racism that went into those design choices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/01\/pete-buttigieg-free-preschool\/\">Buttigieg<\/a> then claimed that $1 billion was going to be dedicated to remedying the damage wrought on those communities. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/28\/joe-biden-highway-tear-down-racial-equity-new-orleans-syracuse-new-york\/\">(RELATED: Democrats Want To Tear Down Highways \u2026 To Solve Historic Racism?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s such a heavy lift. You have to reconstruct communities that this happened to,\u201d the reporter further pressed Buttigieg. \u201cHow do you go about redefining and replanning these roadways and communities that are already settled in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s gonna vary by community, and we have to listen to a community,\u201d the transportation secretary responded, noting that there would be no \u201cone-size-fits-all answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was pressed by a CNN reporter Monday to explain how he would \u201cdeconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways.\u201dButtigieg spoke about the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":2315279,"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-986468","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\/986468","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}