{"id":987423,"date":"2021-11-08T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=987423"},"modified":"2021-11-08T23:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:59:16","slug":"pete-buttigieg-biden-infrastructure-bill-delivers-swift-action-to-fix-racist-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pete-buttigieg-biden-infrastructure-bill-delivers-swift-action-to-fix-racist-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg: Biden Infrastructure Bill Delivers Swift Action to Fix Racist 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\">24<\/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%2Fpete-buttigieg-biden-infrastructure-bill-delivers-swift-action-to-fix-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=987423&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236443471-e1636414467899-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg celebrated President Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure bill on Monday, specifically referring to provisions in the bill to address infrastructure deemed by the federal government as racist.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg noted that fixing racist infrastructure was a priority of the Biden administration, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90665038\/the-senate-infrastructure-bill-includes-1-billion-to-address-devastation-caused-by-freeways-experts-say-its-not-enough\">billion dollars<\/a> was passed as part of the Reconnecting Communities Initiative in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Buttigieg spoke about the program during the White House press briefing, criticizing Americans who even questioned the idea that racist infrastructure projects existed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still surprised that some people were surprised that when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of deciding a white and a black neighborhood,\u201d Buttigieg said.<\/p>\n<p>Some infrastructure projects of the past, he argued, were specifically designed to separate neighborhoods, apologizing for the federal government\u2019s role in the project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSometimes it was federal dollars that divided a community often along racial lines,\u201d he said, pointing to \u201cracism that went into those design choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a reporter asked Buttigieg how he could \u201cdeconstruct racism that was build into the roadways,\u201d the secretary said the administration would \u201cget to work right away\u201d on the project.<\/p>\n<p>\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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg has a history of talking about racist infrastructure, beginning in his campaign and continuing through his Senate confirmation hearings for the cabinet level position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that\u2019s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/07\/pete-buttigieg-racism-is-physically-built-into-american-infrastructure\/\">told<\/a>&nbsp;the Grio in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg celebrated President Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure bill on Monday, specifically referring to provisions in the bill to address infrastructure deemed by the federal government as racist. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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-987423","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\/987423","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987423\/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=987423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}