Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s $1 billion pilot program aimed at stopping what he called “racial disparity” on U.S. roads and highways earned him scorn and ridicule from Republicans. Critics say Buttigieg’s plan is a prime example of the “woke-ification” of federal policy.
Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker says it’s all part of the Democrats’ continued efforts to weaponize race at every turn.
I’m tired of this move in Black culture that has seeped into Black culture to be the nemesis in America, instead of the overcomers, which was the dream. Success was to be the greatest revenge, remember? But that message that’s rooted in the belief that the fault is with somebody else — with the system and not with ourselves, not with the individual, not the individual to be personally responsible with their action — it continues to be used for political advantage.
One of the most recent examples comes from the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who had more to say about how there is much racism in transportation, than there is a reality of an infrastructure bill that has been passed.
On MSNBC, as he was interviewed by the longstanding radical Al Sharpton, Buttigieg actually talked about how roads are racist, and thus Black people die more often in road fatalities, either in the car or out of the car. It would have been laughable if it weren’t the Secretary of Transportation. According to the Department of Transportation, his own department, racial disparities in this matter continue to fluctuate and change over the years.
For instance, in 2006 white drivers were involved in more vehicle traffic fatalities while Hispanic pedestrians were more often killed. But nevertheless, vehicle-related deaths have sharply gone up since COVID began. When COVID began, we started seeing more accidents. In 2020, we had the sharpest increase in a century.
Beyond discussing serious issues and contributing factors and looking deeper into our infrastructure problems, going after racism, making it racism instead of looking at such rises in alcoholism, people being on their phones and many other factors, the secretary continues again and again to point at racism. Unless he’s saying Blacks are just a bunch of drunks, or they’re the ones on the phones. Maybe someone ought to look deeper into what Buttigieg was saying to Al Sharpton about racist roads and the transportation challenges, and how here we see another disparate impact.
