WATCH: As Southwest Is Grounded AGAIN Buttigieg Fights For ‘Racial Equity In Roads’

While news broke on Tuesday morning that the FAA had once again issued a ground stop for Southwest Airlines that lasted approximately an hour, news spread that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had launched a new $1 billion program to improve “racial equity.”

According to The Associated Press, “Under the Reconnecting Communities program, cities and states can now apply for the federal aid over five years to rectify harm caused by roadways that were built primarily through lower-income, Black communities after the 1950s creation of the interstate highway system.”

Because naturally, with the airline and rail industries in shambles, several ground-stops, flight delays, and cancellations, and derailments and spills in recent memory, this is the highest priority.

Pete Buttigieg tells Al Sharpton that minorities are more likely to die in car crashes because of “the way roads are designed and built.”

Racist roads is what we get from our Transportation Sec.

In fairness, Buttigieg is a Roads Scholar. pic.twitter.com/nZ2e3vzqM2

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 16, 2023

According to the report, these funds are supposed to help with “50 citizen-led efforts nationwide aimed at dismantling or redesigning highways — from Portland, Oregon, to New Orleans; St. Paul, Minnesota; Houston; Tampa, Florida; and Syracuse, New York.” And advocacy groups are complaining that the money isn’t nearly enough to rip up the freeways as they’d like.

But nonetheless, Buttigieg virtue signaled with leaders of the Black community in nowhere other than Birmingham, Alabama. He vocally derided one of the greatest achievements of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the interstate highway system, and its paths through communities which were frequently chosen by the states in conjunction with the federal government.

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“There’s trees they’re putting in, they’re saying that highways are racially discriminatory. I don’t know how a road can be that,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told reporters in February, when he dismissed the initiative as “woke.”

“Transportation can connect us to jobs, services and loved ones, but we‘ve also seen countless cases around the country where a piece of infrastructure cuts off a neighborhood or a community because of how it was built,” Buttigieg said according to the AP.

“We can’t ignore the basic truth: that some of the planners and politicians behind those projects built them directly through the heart of vibrant populated communities,” he added.

“Sometimes as an effort to reinforce segregation. Sometimes because the people there have less power to resist. And sometimes as part of a direct effort to replace or eliminate Black neighborhoods.”

Buttigieg claimed, “there is nothing sacred about the status quo,” regarding the roads and bridges, ignoring the severe disruption these overhauls will cause communities and businesses in the here and now, built around and upon that “status quo.”

“They are not divinely ordained; they are decisions,” he added. “And we can make better decisions than what came before.” Buttigieg is obtusely ignoring the impact said ‘better decisions’ will have on millions of Americans and ignoring the poisonous victimhood mentality that spawned them.

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