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>> Jeanine: TRANSPORTATION IN
AMERICA IS AN UTTER WRECK.
LITERALLY.
MAYOR PETE IS MORE FOCUSED ON
THIS RIDICULOUS PROGRESSIVE
PRIORITIES LIKE HOW ARE ROADS
ARE RACISM THE TRANSPORTATION
SECRETARY TRYING TO SATISFY THE
WOKE WHEN ASKED ABOUT CAR
ACCIDENTS.
>> THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS
RELATED TO DISCRIMINATION,
RELATED TO THE WAY THE ROADS ARE
DESIGNED AND BUILT, WHO HAS
ACCESS TO SAFE STREET DESIGN
THAT HAS CROSSWALKS AND GOOD
LIGHTING, WHO DOESN’T HAVE THAT?
THAT CAN DRIVE DISPARITY AND WE
HAVE RESPONSIBILITY TO ACT ON
THAT.
>> Jeanine: YOU KNOW, GREG, I
WILL NOT EVEN ASK ABOUT WHETHER
ROADS CAN BE RACIST, I WILL SAVE
THAT FOR THE NEXT PERSON.
GIVEN THE FACT PETE BUTTIGIEG
STRUGGLED WITH BLACK VOTERS IN
2020, IS THIS WAY OF TRYING TO
WIN HIM OVER AND AS
TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY, HAS HE
DONE ANYTHING?
>> Greg: IT HAS TO BE, CAN ONLY
BE TAKEN SERSLY IF YOU WORK WITH
ONE VARIABLE, RACE.
THE REASON THERE ARE ACCIDENTS
AND FATALITIES HAS TO BE RACE.
THERE WAS A STUDY I WROTE ABOUT
A COUPLE YEARS AGO, THEY
COMPARED BLACKS WERE PULLED OVER
MUCH HIGHER RATES IN AMERICA
THAN ASIANS FOR SPEEDING
TICKETS.
IT YOUR HONOR TURNED OUT THERE
WERE MORE YOUNG BLACK DRIVERS IN
AMERICA THAN ASIAN DRIVERS,
YOUNG PEOPLE DRIVE FASTER, GET
IN THE MOST ACCIDENTS, OFTEN WHY
TWHA HAVE THE MOST EXPENSIVE
EXPERIENCE PREMIUMS.
GUESS WHO IS CAREFUL IN CARS?
YOUNG PEOPLE.
AS FAR AS ROAD ACCESS AND
LIGHTING, I MEAN, THERE IS A
CHICKEN AND EGG THING GOING ON
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE FOOD
DESERTS.
THAT IS WHY MINORITIES DON’T GET
NUTRITION AND THEN YOU SEE
LOOTING AND WOW, WHOSE FAULT IS
THIS?
STORES DON’T WANT TO BE IN
NEIGHBORHOODS ANYMORE WHERE
PEOPLE GET TREATED LIKE THIS,
LIKE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
>> Jeanine: DANA, WHY IS PETE
FOCUSED ON THIS, ALL THE TRAIN
DERAILMENTS AND AIRPORTS, WHY
THIS?
>> Dana: MAYOR PETE IS NOT ON AN
ISLAND HE REPORTS TO PRESIDENT
BIDEN AND THIS IS DRIVEN FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE.
WHO IS IN CHARGE OF DEPARTMENT
TRANSPORTATION AT THE WHITE
HOUSE?
LINDA RICE.
THIS IS PRIORITY FOR THEM.
FINE, LIST YOUR PRIORITIES.
YOU DON’T HAVE SECRETARY OF
EDUCATION COMING OUT WITH A
BULLHORN TO CAM PLAIN EVERY
URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES NOT
HAVE CHILDREN WHO CAN READ AND
DO MATH AT GRADE LEVEL AND THEY
PASS THEM ON ANYWAY.
WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS PROBLEM?
LIKE THE BROKEN WINDOW THEORY OF
CROSSWALKS.
THEY ARE NOT WORKING?
WHOSE FAULT IS THAT?
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE TO BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT, THEY GET
FEDERAL MONEY.
THEN MAYOR PETE, WHITE HOUSE,
MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT ARE YOU
GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
WHAT IS TARGETED ANSWER FOR ANY
OF THIS?
I GET BACK TO THE ISSUE OF
EDUCATION, I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT
IS NOT CONSIDERED THE NUMBER ONE
FIVE-ALARM FIRE FOR THIS
ADMINISTRATION AND ANYBODY
RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW?
>> Jeanine: WHAT ABOUT CAR
ACCIDENTS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE
WORLD AND OTHER COUNTRIES?
WOULD HE SAY THEY ARE RACIST?
>> Will: GREAT QUESTION, BROADEN
THE SAMPLE SIZE AND POOL.
I THOUGHT I WANTED TO COME INTO
THIS SEGMENT AND HAVE GOOD TIME
ABOUT RACIST ROADS.
I WANT TO SAY THIS, RACISM IS
REAL.
THIS IS A STATEMENT A LOT OF US
WHO RIGHTFULLY POINT TO REASON
DON’T MAKE ENOUGH.
RACISM IS A REAL ISSUE IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BUT I
BELIEVE THAT IDEA IS UNDERCUT
MORE BY PEOPLE WHO ATTEMPT TO
EXPLAIN EVERY DISPARATE IMPACT
BY ONE SINGLE VARIABLE AND LESS
BY PEOPLE WHO DENY EXISTENCE OF
RACISM IF YOU WATER DOWN CONCEPT
TO RACIST ROADS, YOU HAVE LOST A
WILLING LISTENER.
RACISM IS A PROBLEM, AN
INDIVIDUAL PROBLEM, AND LOST
ABILITY TO WIN THROUGH REASON
AND PERSUASION, THROUGH THIS
STUPIDITY.
>> Jeanine: THAT’S A GREAT
POINT.
WHAT DO YOU THINK JESSICA, ABOUT
THIS?
>> Jessica: IT IS MORE
COMPLICATED THAN JUST ONE
VARIABLE.
IT IS A REAL VARIABLE HE’S
TALKING ABOUT AND HISTORY GOES
BACK TO NATIONAL HIGHWAY ACT OF
1956.
THERE WERE CHANGES IN ZONING
LAWS, WE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA
BLACKS AND WHITES SHOULD LIVE
TOGETHER.
THEY BUILT HIGHWAYS THROUGH THE
CITIES AND DESTROYED THEM.
I-365 CUTS THROUGH DETROIT AND
NUMBER OF BLACK COMMUNITIES ARE
CUT OFF IN THE ABYSS ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY
WITHOUT ACCESS TO THE SAME
THINGS WHITES HAVE ACCESS TO.
WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, AS WELL,
THE DIFFERENCE IN OUTCOMES FOR
COMMUNITIES OF COLOR WHEN IT
COMES TO POLLUTION.
A STUDY IN 2021 ABOUT THE AIR
QUALITY IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
AND BLACKS WORSE THAN OTHER
MINORITY GROUPS AND WORSE THAN
WHITES SUFFER FROM AIR POLLUTION
DUE TO CONSTRUCTION DONE IN
PLACES THEY --
>> Greg: I’M CURIOUS, WHAT
CITIES -- WE ALWAYS ARE TOLD HOW
BAD IT WAS AS IF IT NEVER GETS
BETTER.
1954 60 OR 70 YEARS AGO AND WE
LOOK BACKWARD AND ACT LIKE SINS
OF THE 50s OR SINS NOW, WHY
HASN’T YOUR PARTY IMPROVED THIS?
WHY IS HE TALKING ABOUT IT NOW?
WHAT CITY IS THIS HAPPENING IN?
IT IS A DEMO ACCURATIC CITY?
WHAT ABOUT LECTURING US ON
LANGUAGE, TAKING MONEY FOR THE
HOMELESS AND MAKING IT
DISAPPEAR?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
RATHER THAN TELLING EVERYBODY
THAT WE’RE RACIST?
>> Jessica: I DID NOT SAY THAT.
>> Greg: I KNOW, I MEANT YOU
GENERALLY.
>> Jessica: DON’T, ME IS THE
ONLY PERSON SITTING HERE AND
TOOK EXTRA CARE THAT DID NOT
FALL INTO THE TRAP SAYING THIS
IS RACISM, THERE ARE SYSTEMIC
CHALLENGES TO BLACK PEOPLE THAT
WHITES DO NOT FACE BECAUSE OF
WHERE THEY LIVE.
WHAT HAVE DEMOCRATIC
REPRESENTATIVES DONE?
THEY GOT THE FLINT WATER CRISIS
PAID ATTENTION TO, TOOK TOO
LONG.
FLINT, NOT A BIG DEAL?
HUGE DEAL.
KIDS DRINKING LEAD INFESTED
WATER.
I SAT HERE WHEN EAST PALESTINE
WAS RAVAGED BY CHEMICALS AND