{"id":986887,"date":"2021-11-08T21:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=986887"},"modified":"2021-11-08T21:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:14:50","slug":"secretary-buttigieg-biden-admin-to-use-infrastructure-bill-to-address-racist-highway-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretary-buttigieg-biden-admin-to-use-infrastructure-bill-to-address-racist-highway-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Buttigieg: Biden Admin To Use Infrastructure Bill To Address Racist Highway Design"},"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\">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%2Fsecretary-buttigieg-biden-admin-to-use-infrastructure-bill-to-address-racist-highway-design%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=986887&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--><p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Monday that the Biden administration would use money from the infrastructure bill to address what he claims were <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/ZnAa0\">racist<\/a> highway designs.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg made the remarks in response to a question from White House correspondent April Ryan, who asked him how he would \u201cdeconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, the principle of Justice40 is that at least 40 percent of the clean investments in this bill will go to benefit the communities that are overburdened and underserved,\u201d Buttigieg said. \u201cSo, part one of that is defining those investments that are eligible, and that\u2019s a lot of it, and we\u2019re working to map out kind of program by program, mode by mode, what would qualify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs to where we target those dollars, you know, I\u2019m 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 \u2014 or that would have been \u2014 in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices,\u201d he claimed. \u201cI don\u2019t think we have anything to lose by confronting that simple reality. And I think we have everything to gain by acknowledging it and then dealing with it, which is why the Reconnecting Communities \u2014 that billion dollars \u2014 is something we want to get to work right away putting to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AprilDRyan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AprilDRyan<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PeteButtigieg<\/a>: \u201cCan you give us the construct of how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways? \u2026 Can you talk to us about how that could be deconstructed?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FXXEq5tuQL\">pic.twitter.com\/FXXEq5tuQL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1457790091439579137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT PROVIDED VIA THE WHITE HOUSE:<\/p>\n<p><em>APRIL RYAN, BLOGGER: Secretary \u2014 Secretary Mayor Pete, could you give us the breakdown of the implementation of Justice40 with the infrastructure package that has now passed and signed into law? And also, can you give us the construct of how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways that you talked to TheGrio earlier when you broke that information with us? Can you talk to us about how that could be deconstructed?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PETE BUTTIGIEG, SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION: For sure, yeah. So, the principle of Justice40 is that<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Monday that the Biden administration would use money from the infrastructure bill to address what he claims were racist highway designs.Buttigieg made the remarks in response to a question from White House correspondent April Ryan, who asked him how he would \u201cdeconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways.\u201d\u201cSo, the principle of Justice40 is that at least 40 percent of the clean investments in this bill will go to benefit the communities that are overburdened and underserved,\u201d Buttigieg said. \u201cSo, part one of that is defining those investments that are eligible, and that\u2019s a lot of it, and we\u2019re working to map out kind of program by program, mode by mode, what would qualify.\u201d\u201cAs to where we target those dollars, you know, I\u2019m 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 \u2014 or that would have been \u2014 in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices,\u201d he claimed. \u201cI don\u2019t think we have anything to lose by confronting that simple reality. And I think we have everything to gain by acknowledging it and then dealing with it, which is why the Reconnecting Communities \u2014 that billion dollars \u2014 is something we want to get to work right away putting to work.\u201dWATCH:Reporter @AprilDRyan to @PeteButtigieg: \u201cCan you give us the construct of how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways? \u2026 Can you talk to us about how that could be deconstructed?\u201d pic.twitter.com\/FXXEq5tuQL\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 8, 2021TRANSCRIPT PROVIDED VIA THE WHITE HOUSE:APRIL RYAN, BLOGGER: Secretary \u2014 Secretary Mayor Pete, could you give us the breakdown of the implementation of Justice40 with the infrastructure package that has now passed and signed into law? And also, can you give us the construct of how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways that you talked to TheGrio earlier when you broke that information with us? Can you talk to us about how that could be deconstructed?PETE BUTTIGIEG, SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION: For sure, yeah. So, the principle of Justice40 is that at least 40 percent of the clean investments in this bill will go to benefit the communities that are overburdened and underserved.So, part one of that is defining those investments that are eligible, and that\u2019s a lot of it, and we\u2019re working to map out kind of program by program, mode by mode, what would qualify.For example, if we\u2019re buying clean buses \u2014 right? \u2014 how do we make sure in terms of where those buses go, but also looking at the business opportunity \u2014 the jobs that are going to be created, the businesses that will have a chance to compete for the business opportunities it creates. That too, I think, is a very important element of equity here that\u2019s in the spirit of Justice40.And again, we have a lot of guidance and oversight from the White House since that\u2019s an administration-wide initiative, but we know that we\u2019ve got to build our own internal, kind of, ways of aligning and defining that inside the administration.As to where we target those dollars, you know, I\u2019m 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 \u2014 or that would have been \u2014 in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.I don\u2019t think we have anything to lose by confronting that simple reality. And I think we have everything to gain by acknowledging it and then dealing with it, which is why the Reconnecting Communities \u2014 that billion dollars \u2014 is something we want to get to work right away putting to work.RYAN: But that\u2019s such a heavy lift. I mean, you\u2019d have to reconstruct communities that this happened to. As you said, some of these beltways and interstates and roadways were built before the Civil Rights Act, before the Voting Rights Act, and were made \u2014 meant to be racist. But how do you go about redefining and replanting these roadways and communities that are already settled in since then?BUTTIGIEG: Yeah. So, what\u2019s interesting is it\u2019s going to vary by community and we have to listen to the community. Sometimes it really is the case that an overpass went in a certain way that is so harmful that it\u2019s got to come down or maybe be put underground.Other times, maybe it\u2019s not that way. Maybe the really important thing is to connect across it; to add rather than subtract. And that\u2019s where we don\u2019t want to impose a one-size-fits-all answer from here.But when we were out in Syracuse, for example, looking at I-81, we saw the local vision for how they want to get past those divisions. And those local ideas are going to be taken very seriously as we try to meet the spirit of this law.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"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-986887","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\/986887","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986887\/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=986887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}