Biden buddy Buttigieg says Interstate highways are racist? Here's why...

DailyKenn.com — Racism permeates virtually everything. It is opaque to most, but to the trained eyes of the woke, it's clearly obvious. 

Count Biden buddy Pete Buttigieg in the woke column. 

Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg clearly sees racism "physically built" into America's highways. 

The logic follows this reasoning: Apparently, Interstate systems often intentionally bypass communities of color (woke term for 'non-white') and are, therefore, racist (woke term for 'white').

It's as if engineers sat down at their computers (or drawing boards in the 1960s), drew red lines around neighborhoods known to be black, and exed out all the exit ramps. 

This silly notion comes with holes. 

First, many neighborhoods that were white when Interstates were first constructed in the 1950s and 1960s are now black. Driving through Warren Township in Indianapolis, for example, is like a drive through Detroit. Such wasn't the case when I-465 plowed through the city's east side in the 1960s. Blacks seemed to have appropriated the exit ramps. 

Second, the same wokesters who gripe about racist exit ramps also complain about gentrification, the reclaiming of black neighborhoods originally built by and for whites. 

Could it be that Interstates were designed to connect productive areas and that race never entered the equation? 

That's possible. It's also anathema to the cult of the woke.

Consider the app the directed motorists around high-crime areas. That app was scrapped after, like Interstates, it was deemed racist. 

It seems something else is at play here rather than intentional, institutional, systemic racism. 

Excerpted from dailywire.com ▼

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg claimed in a recent interview that racism is “physically built” into parts of the U.S. highway system.

Responding to an allegation from theGrio White House correspondent April Ryan that the interstate system was “built on a racist system” meant “to keep certain groups in and certain groups out,” Buttigieg agreed, saying, “Yeah, often this wasn’t just an act of neglect. Often this was a conscious choice. There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that’s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars.”

 

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