Interstate Hiway System is Racist

[GURPS]

Buttigieg Claims Racism Is ‘Physically Built’ Into U.S. Interstate 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.”

“Well, if you’re in Washington, I’m told that the history of that highway is one that was built at the expense of communities of color in the D.C. area,” Buttigieg continued, according theGrio. “There are stories, and I think Philadelphia and Pittsburgh [and] in New York, Robert Moses famously saw through the construction of a lot of highways.”

As theGrio reported:

Phase one of fixing the nation’s infrastructure is not just about some of the obvious: repairing potholes, bridges, roads, airports, schools, creating new power grids, replacing lead pipes and expanding broadband.

There are also efforts to correct America’s racist wrongs.

Equity is now being built into the soon to be updated black-and-white road maps of yesteryear. “If you think about it, much of this infrastructure was paid for and designed before the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” former Obama Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx tells theGrio. “That was a time before Black people were at the table.”

What The Actual Fuk ...

 

[PrchJrkr]

Work is raciss...

 

[vraiblonde]

Oh, didn't you know? There are signs on the onramps saying "No Blacks Allowed". I'm surprised you haven't seen them.

 

[stgislander]

Playing devil's advocate, can it be said that when decisions were made by fed/state/local officials to run interstates through urban areas (because BIPOCs only live in urban areas), that they conscientiously or unconsciously decided to go through minority neighborhoods?

 

[SamSpade]

fed/state/local officials to run interstates through urban areas (because BIPOCs only live in urban areas),

Actually - they don't. Although the biggest change in this was only in the last twenty years, generally more than half have not lived in inner cities in the past couple generations or so.

Again - this is MATH. We look at big cities like Philly, or Detroit, or Chicago, or Baltimore or Houston or New Orleans or New York or LA or Atlanta or Charlotte - just keep naming them - we tend to think, oh, most of them live in big cities. Umm, no not really. For one thing, some of the largest NUMBERS of blacks in cities are in cities like NYC, LA and Chicago - where they represent 19, 17 and 7 percent, respectively. So how can they have the largest numbers, if they're not the majority percentage? Because they're BIG cities. But you add them all up - and you don't come close to the 41 million blacks in the country.

So where are they?

Mostly - the South. Spread out all over the place.

Even so - THIS picture can still confuse people - because this is DENSITY. The states with the largest TOTAL black population include Texas, New York and Florida. So why aren't those states darker? Because they have huge populations. For example - 15% of a state with 20 million is 3 million. That's New York.

I could go on about this, but you can easily see how your perception - and a poor representation of the numbers might give you a mistaken idea of the facts. There may be a LOT of cities with large black populations - but it's a big country.

 

[SamSpade]

Honestly - I think this may be more along the lines of - someone found a data point SOMEWHERE and concluded a systemic result. I've been on Interstates all up and down the coast and out west. One thing I've noticed in general more than anything else - most of the Interstate system, mileage wise, goes through areas where very few people live - at all.

 

[vraiblonde]

Keeping in mind that the Interstate Highway Act was passed in 1956, and before that we had other road programs with the idea of making travel easier, not harder. Duh.

Yes, the interstate system displaced some people.
Yes, probably some of them were Black people.
No, it wasn't planned that they'd go through only Black neighborhoods. That's ridiculous.

You can look at the interstate highway map and see for yourself.

Of course it goes near population areas - duh. That's where people travel to. What would be the point of an interstate going through Nevada that didn't hit Las Vegas and Reno? In Nebraska it goes ONLY through Omaha and Lincoln, because that's the only place people want to go to. In Colorado all interstate roads lead travelers to Denver.

Bootyjudge needs his ass kicked, freaking rabble rousing dickhead. This just goes to show the sneering contempt he has for Democrat voters, because you know he's not talking to people like me with that tripe - we'd laugh in his elitist face and take him apart with FACTS.

 

[SamSpade]

To further illustrate this - a great example of the distribution of people is Ethiopia. We stayed in Addis Ababa, which is far and away the largest city of about 3 million. The next several largest cities have a half million or less. Go far enough down the list - and you're talking cities the size of Prince Frederick or Leonardtown. Add THEM all up - and you have, what, maybe 20-30 million? The country has 112 million people. They HAVE big cities - but the bulk of the people live all over the place. But all of the towns are small, how can that be? Because there's THOUSANDS of them.

In the U.S. a lot of our major cities have large black populations. Only a few are majority black. But the largest portion of blacks in the country live in the states of the Confederacy. Almost half. NOT urban metropolises.

 

[Monello]

Growing up in NJ, we didn't have a bus line near where I lived. You had to walk a good bit to get to a bus stop. But all the black neighborhoods had bus lines going through them, connecting them with other black neighborhoods. I was told that was because a lot of blacks back them didn't own cars.

 

[gemma_rae]

Has no one given an ounce of thought to the fact that in 1956 there were very few "communities of color", and when "communities of color" did start to form, they had to build roads there because the so called 'coloreds' relied on public transportation?

Bootyboi ought to keep his round mouth shut and be thought a fool instead of opening it and removing all doubt.

Interstate Highway System - The Myths - 50th Anniversary - Interstate System - Highway History - Federal Highway Administration (dot.gov)

 

[Smokey1]

A lot of times infrastructure is located in areas where land is cheapest. Often those same areas are where significant populations of minorities live per the low land costs. Race has nothing to do with it.

 

[GURPS]

A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways



Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain.

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Here are highlights from Archer's interview with NPR:

Why would officials have targeted thriving vibrant communities? Was it just because the people who lived there were Black and or brown?

Some of the time, yes, that was actually the case. The highways were being built just as courts around the country were striking down traditional tools of racial segregation. So, for example, courts were striking down the use of racial zoning to keep Black people in certain communities and white people in other communities. And so the highway development popped up at a time when the idea, the possibility of integration in housing was on the horizon. And so very intentionally, highways were sometimes built right on the formal boundary lines that we saw used during racial zoning. Sometimes community members asked the highway builders to create a barrier between their community and encroaching Black communities.

 

[GURPS]

'Fox News Sunday' Host Chris Wallace Did Not Mince Words Calling Out Sec. Buttigieg's Lies


Fondacaro highlighted another particular exchange in which Wallace called the transportation secretary out. "Again, Secretary Buttigieg, why mislead folks," Wallace asked. The host even got Buttigieg, to both their credit, to say he "should have been more precise" when it comes to how many jobs would be created. Nevertheless, Wallace still wasn't letting him off the hook as he stepped in to correct him.

Wallace: I want to give you another fact-check. All of you in the Biden administration have been selling this plan as a huge job's creator. Here you are just last Sunday.
Buttigieg: The American jobs plan is about a generational investment. It's going to create 19 million jobs and we’re talking about economic growth that's going to go on for years and years.
Wallace: But it turns out the study you are citing from Moody's Analytics says the economy will add 16.3 million jobs without the infrastructure bill and 2.7 million more with it. So it doesn't, as you said last Sunday, create 19 million jobs.

And then moments later in the interview:

Wallace: But would you agree that you and the President and Brian Deese, the economic advisor on this program last week, you all exaggerated the jobs impact?
Buttigieg: Look, there are a lot of different analyses about just how many million jobs this is going to create. I saw Georgetown study, I think it said an investment of this type will save or create --
Wallace: But Secretary, you're the one who cited Moody's analytics as 19 million and it's actually 2.7 million, which is a bunch, but it's not what you said.

 

[GURPS]

'Why Mislead Folks?' Wallace Grills Secretary Buttigieg on Infrastructure Lies


You all like to say that U.S. infrastructure is ranked 13th in the world, but our colleague Chuck Layne of The Washington Post did some interesting research, three of the nations ahead of us on that list are Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates, which are tiny states and hardly comparable. Of the ten largest countries geographically, including China and Russia, the U.S. actually ranks first.

“So secretary, not to say that everything is fine, but why not be straight about the actual conditions here in the U.S. to the American people,” Wallace pressed.

Buttigieg refused to address why the administration was manipulating the facts. Instead, he simply argued that “the American people already know that our infrastructure needs a lot of work.”

 

[vraiblonde]

A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways



Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain.

[clip]

Here are highlights from Archer's interview with NPR:

Why would officials have targeted thriving vibrant communities? Was it just because the people who lived there were Black and or brown?

Some of the time, yes, that was actually the case. The highways were being built just as courts around the country were striking down traditional tools of racial segregation. So, for example, courts were striking down the use of racial zoning to keep Black people in certain communities and white people in other communities. And so the highway development popped up at a time when the idea, the possibility of integration in housing was on the horizon. And so very intentionally, highways were sometimes built right on the formal boundary lines that we saw used during racial zoning. Sometimes community members asked the highway builders to create a barrier between their community and encroaching Black communities.

Nobody cares what NPR has to say. They just puke up tripe for the cultbots.

 

[Kyle]

"Each race will be asked to stay in their lane," Buttigieg said.

Buttigieg Proposes Separate Highway Lanes For Each Race

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has proposed a novel plan for promoting equality in our nation's highways system, which literally has racism built into its DNA. His new plan promises to even things out for people of color by giving each race their own lane.

babylonbee.com

 

[GURPS]

"Each race will be asked to stay in their lane," Buttigieg said.

Don't give Progressives Any Ideas

 

[Hijinx]

Originally Interstate 95 was to be built right through Washington DC, They built a tunnel under the mall and the land and rights of way were purchased to go straight thru town and come out at back at where 95 picks up. There is a Church at New Jersey, and New York Avenue's where the tunnel exits. The Church was in the way of 95 and scheduled to be torn down for the Interstate. The black Preacher at that Church said, " They aint tearing down this Church" or words to that effect and he stopped Interstate 95. right at that point.
The houses in the right of way sat for years and eventually they were sold for a buck apiece and are still there. Probably a good thing the preacher stopped it really because that tunnel is jam packed with cars at all hours and could have never stood immense traffic of 95 on it.

 

[kom526]

Asphalt is black and stripes are white. It really is that simple.

 

[Sneakers]

Asphalt is black and stripes are white. It really is that simple.

What about bluestone?