Pete Buttigieg claimed that community infrastructure projects are filled with White workers who do not represent the diversity of the surrounding area.
focused on racial disparities in construction during a Monday conference, claiming that construction sites are not employing local workers in minority communities and outsourcing to White people.
He added that Americans could help shrink wealth gaps in the country by"tearing down those barriers" on the delivery level. "I'm still surprised that had 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," Buttigieg responded during the press briefing.
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