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Pete Buttigieg: Racism Is ‘Physically Built’ into American Infrastructure

Transportation, Infrastructure, race and racism, Pete Buttigieg

Posted on AllSides April 7th, 2021

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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg declared “there is racism physically built” into U.S. infrastructure during a Tuesday interview addressing President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal.

Speaking to TheGrio, Buttigieg argued that some highways and bridges across several cities were designed to divide communities by race.

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