Have you been sleeping the last year?
Posted on 04/01/2021 8:58:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill includes funds to actually destroy infrastructure, according to reports.
The White House cited the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans and Interstate 81 in Syracuse, New York, as two problematic highways going through black neighborhoods they would support destroying.
Biden’s mention of the Claiborne Expressway thrilled New Orleans activist Amy Stelly who has worked to destroy the highway.
“I’m floored,” she said to the Washington Post. “I’m thrilled to hear President Biden would call out the Claiborne Expressway as a racist highway.”
The White House fact sheet plans $20 billion to “reconnect neighborhoods” suffering from current infrastructure and make sure all new projects “advance racial equity and environmental justice.”
The concept of the injustice of racist infrastructure continues spreading throughout the Biden administration as they work towards racial equity across government.
“Black and brown neighborhoods have been disproportionately divided by highway projects or left isolated by the lack of adequate transit and transportation resources,” Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on social media in December, promising to focus energy on “righting these wrongs.”
In March, Buttigieg’s department sent a letter asking Texas to pause an interstate expansion in Houston while they investigated racial justice complaints.
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FUBAR.
Oh for crying out loud.
I am fairly sure the location of these highways was chosen by the lower cost of the land.
And exactly how is giving poorer people easy access to the highways “racist”? It’s just some people’s perception. You could argue the opposite - removing the highways is designed to keep poor people trapped in their own neighborhoods and will decrease the air quality as their cars idle in street traffic.
Cities as such are racist. Burn them down. Just because they are cities.
Is this an April Fools joke?
April Fools! And yes, Biden is a fool. This is his day!
What about the Harbor freeway in LA, that slices the hood right in half.
Well there's a black man with a black cat
Livin' in a black neighborhood
He's got an interstate runnin' through his front yard
You know he thinks he's got it so good
April Fools 2121 canceled, since no joke is bigger than what’s currently in the WhiteHut.
Did these people ever stop to think that highways are built to connect two places thru the shortest route? The DOT doesn’t care who lives where, black or white..................
Unfortunately, no...................
This could get amusing.
In CT we have highways to nowhere that tried to go through wealthy highways and were stopped in the name of environmentalism.
If you can’t build in rich areas and you can’t build in poor areas then forget about “shovel ready” infrastructure anywhere!
WHAT A GREAT IDEA!
Have you been sleeping the last year?
https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/the-bridge-nowhere-national-embarrassment
https://lahikes.net/the-bridge-to-nowhere/
“Racist highways”
Hmm, I have never driven on any road and heard it say the “N” word, or any other derogatory name for that matter.
I-40 though Memphis was never finished, and I-40 through Nashville wiped out the black business section of town. They had to move elsewhere.
Well, when you drive over those new ‘wake up holes’ on the sides they say, “KKk KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK................”
As opposed to the Italian tires that "dago wop wop wop!"
Careful, The Mafia is watching!....................
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