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# Racist… Highways
- URL: https://goodoil.news/racist-highways/
- Published: 2021-11-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-12T04:04:20.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Politics, USA Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

Hoo, boy. And here I was, thinking that the left must surely have run out of things to call “racist”. [Golf](https://deadspin.com/we-ve-lived-with-the-masters-name-long-enough-1844121041?ref=goodoil.news), [milk](https://www.peta.org/blog/cows-milk-perfect-drink-supremacists/?ref=goodoil.news), [applauding](https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/oxford-university-clapping-ban-jazz-hands/?ref=goodoil.news), [knitting](https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/25/18234950/knitting-racism-instagram-stories?ref=goodoil.news), [cycling](https://theconversation.com/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-cycling-76256?ref=goodoil.news), [abolishing slavery](https://badgerherald.com/news/2020/06/26/uw-students-petition-to-remove-abraham-lincoln-statue-on-bascom-hill/?ref=goodoil.news), [not being racist](https://babe.net/2017/12/01/sorry-white-people-but-trying-too-hard-not-to-be-racist-is-low-key-kind-of-racist-23405?ref=goodoil.news), [earthquakes](https://apnews.com/3f4c95a3353b4ed3b74763332ddb0bad?ref=goodoil.news), [Thomas the Tank Engine](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003BJODJQ?ref=goodoil.news)… all “racist”.

Also, thanks to Biden VP, **Kamala Harris**, we now know that trees are also racist.

As **Kinky “The Texas Jewboy” Friedman** once sang, in *They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus, Anymore*, “is there anyone I missed?”

You betcha!

> Transportation Secretary **Pete Buttigieg** said on Monday that the Biden administration would use money from the infrastructure bill to address what he claims were racist highway designs.  
>  
> Buttigieg made the remarks in response to a question from White House correspondent **April Ryan**, who asked him how he would “deconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways.”

Now, last I looked, America’s famously spaghettified highways hadn’t exactly been designed to look like Stepinfetchit caricatures when seen from space, or to spell racist epithets. So, what’s got Secretary Butters all worked up?

> “You know, I’m still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a black neighborhood, or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach — or that would have been — in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices,” he claimed.

With a straight face, and everything.

Yes, town planners wearing pointy hoods are apparently going out and measuring the height of buses — but only the ones that carry “colored” kids, because apparently that’s a thing, too — and, yee-hawing and a hollerin’ back to the office, triumphant that they’ve kept those danged uppity “negroes” off good, white folks’ beaches.

Power-Bottom Pete is also dog-whistling at one of the race-baiting left’s favourite bugaboos: so-called “redlining”. Never mind that the practise was outlawed nearly 80 years ago, or that the neighbourhoods it targeted have mostly demographically changed beyond an ageing Klansman’s recognition. Once gang-ridden LA neighbourhoods like [Westside have been gentrified](https://www.takimag.com/article/the-war-against-instinct/?ref=goodoil.news), while formerly-respectable neighbourhoods like Compton (where the Bushes raised lil Dubya, before relocating to Texas) have become crime-ridden hell-holes.

This would all be a gigantic joke, if there wasn’t such a massive, taxpayer-funded price tag attached.

> “The Reconnecting Communities — that billion dollars — is something we want to get to work right away putting to work.”  
>  
> [The Daily Wire](https://www.dailywire.com/news/secretary-buttigieg-biden-admin-to-use-infrastructure-bill-to-address-racist-highway-design?ref=goodoil.news)

Still, no price is too high to pay to rid America of racist… highways.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/the_bfd_racisthighway.jpg)

Apparently all American highways are like this. The BFD. Photoshop by Lushington Brady.

Is there anything they’ve missed?

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