Guest Post by Eric Peters
Now highways are racist – and must be cancelled.
So saith the new Oberbefehlshaber der Transport – Pete Buttigieg. Whose bona fides to hold this office are purely political. Hiring him for this gig is like hiring Fauci to play lead guitar for Van Halen.
At any rate:
“Black and brown neighborhoods have been disproportionately divided by highway projects or left isolated by the lack of adequate transit and transportation resources.”
Come again?
How does it “isolate” anyone – black or brown or whatever their shade – when it is easy to get anywhere, as the godfather of soul, James Brown, once sang about, back when America was still sane? Just slide behind the wheel, how does it feel?
Pretty damned good.
That’s what living in America is like.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, which made Americans individually mobile. That’s what James Brown’s anthem is all about – and it’s what people like Buttigieg want Americans to forget all about. 
Prior to its existence, there was Route 66 – which in many places was a meandering two-lane that went directly through downtowns.
It was scenic – a TV show was made about it – but it was far from easy to get anywhere. It wasn’t an arterial system, like the Interstate system. It went from the midwest to LA and if you wanted to get anywhere else, you took side roads and that took a long time.
Families couldn’t just get in the car and drive to Disneyland – or to see their grandparents in an adjacent state.
Not over a long weekend, anyhow.
People outside of cities were, indeed, “isolated” . . . before there were “superhighways, coast to coast.”
Most people stayed close to where they lived, because they had no choice. They could not just slide behind the wheel. Many didn’t even own cars; they walked or took government-controlled – styled “public” – transport to work or the store, if the walk was too far. 
They were not individually mobile in the way that Americans have come to take for granted. And that is what Buttigieg wants to take away – just without saying so.
Instead, he says:
“In the Harris-Biden administration, we will make righting these wrongs an imperative.”
But how, precisely? Assuming it is wrong to make it easy to get anywhere by car – and by yourself?
A hyphenated fellow traveller by the name of Janet of Sadik-Khan – who is an “urban planner” and chair of something styled the National Association of City Transportation Officials – is less evasive.
She – presumably – says:
“The administration is laying the transformational groundwork to rebuild the streets that we have to prioritize people, safety and climate—and going all-in on transit as the first mobility option for America’s future.”
Italics added for purposes of deconstruction.
What that means is fewer superhighways – and more busses. Fewer cars – that aren’t electric – which by their nature diminish mobility by applying The Wait to any trip which exceeds 50 percent of the already limited EV’s get there and back range.
Vast sums are to be spent on electric vehicle “fast” charging infrastructure, which will do nothing for the lower-income black and brown (and other color) people who cannot afford to spend $40,000 for an electric car – and never mind how far it doesn’t go or how long the Wait to get going again.
It does not occur to people like Sadik-Khan or Buttigieg and his master, Kamela Harris, that low-income people do not earn $40,000 a year. They are low-income people. The electric car push will push these people off the road first – and into the government-controlled wait for the bus or train.
This being the “transit” limned by Sadik-Khan, who was previously an operative for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Which “transit” you’ll be allowed to ride . . . if you obey. Put on that “mask.” Take your shot. Show your passport. You’ll “transit” on the government’s schedule, at its pleasure. No more easy to get anywhere for you. As you wish, when you wish, on no schedule except your own.
How doe that make you feel?
She also speaks of “safety” – for “all users.”
Emphasis (again) not on drivers.
Instead, cyclists and walkers. Roads into and thus out of cities are to be put on a diet – heir wording. Dachau style – in order to get rid of them entirely. Literally. Just called something differently: “vision zero.” Which means zero motor vehicle fatalities, to be achieved by zero motor vehicles.
It’s all part of the Harris-Biden regime’s $2 trillion “plan.” Which will “advance racial equality and environmental justice” – by making everyone as equally immobile as feasible.
“It’s big. It’s Bold. And we can get it done,” says the president selected.
Indeed, it is very big.
A big step backward, toward a time before it was easy to get anywhere in this country, especially for low-income people – who could afford to buy and feed a beat-up old jalopy to take them out of the city and to greener pastures.
“We” can’t have that, anymore.
It’s racist, you see.
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I-81 in syracuse is one of the prioritized roads. After the vote on the street grid didnt go their way, it became a race issue. You know why ethnic neighborhoods are close to thruways? Its loud and therefore housing is cheaper. The term wrong side of the tracks mean anything to you?
So they want to build this idiotic street grid to reduce traffic and pollution by having semi tractors stop at 25 lights on the street level grid rather than roll on the 81 with no stops. Somehow slowing people down and backing people up at lights will reduce traffic.
You should see the artists rendering of it. Like 5 cars and 1500 pedestrians in the mock up. Its magic how traffic will be reduced. You know why folks dont go down to syracuse from the suburbs? Traffic and black crime. There are no go zones for whites in that city. Ask a real estate agent.
Gasoline and diesel in the $50 – $100/gal range will take care of any traffic. The poor will walk and the middle class will ride bikes, until the government takes them from you and gives them to the poor.
Bicycles are probably racist too.
Africans never invented the wheel, so that is probably where the racism starts.
Well, two wheels constantly reminds one demographic of two parents, and most of them don’t have two parents, so that’s racissssssss.
Something comes to mind about trains running on time. Hey, look! The original result of anti-fascist forces!
Is former Mayor of the year Pete going to cancel the Hershey highway?
There’s always a “fudge” factor in all of his plans..
What…no more fudgie the whale?
Our former ‘America’s Mayor’ is always seeking a backdoor solution.
I have heard that it is possible to become VP by being good on your knees. Maybe he is trying to get the slot when Da Ho moves up a level?
Clearly, the goal is to take highways away from colored people.
Now that roads are racist, what will we do with them? Where will we put I-95 if we have to route it away from blacks? I suppose blacktop will no longer be a permissible term? At least we can take all that wasted space in the ghetto and devote it to beneficial projects for all, like schools and places of knowledge and learning. They’ll appreciate that. Maybe we could build them some more planned parenthood clinics, too. They seem to be popular. Even better- we could replace the highways with farms where they could grow their own food because they live in food deserts because Whole Foods is too racist to open stores in the ghetto. I’m sure the blacks will appreciate being told to do farm work.
If they manage to follow through on this insane crusade, we might benefit in the long run. One of the weaknesses of the US transit system is it is often near the ghetto. During the Burn Down Your Neighborhood protests last year, blacks often found it amusing to wander onto highways to cause trouble. I laughed my ass off when some retards managed to get themselves hit by a car in Seattle.
They used to do it south of me in Richmond. In DC, there’s a black ghetto gang on motorcycles and ATVs that takes over the I495 beltway to do donuts during rush hour. The cops aren’t allowed to chase them and never show up, even when they shut down traffic for long periods of time or run the wrong way up the highway. I was treated to that one afternoon coming back from Baltimore.
If we can reroute highways away from black neighborhoods, they’re less likely to terrorize the rest of us as they sink even further into poverty and irrelevance. Don’t tell him about that, though-If someone points out to Buttplug the boon he’s bringing to white truck drivers and white car owners, he might decide to scrap this plan and continue to leave our infrastructure vulnerable to attack.
Also-I wonder who will benefit from this federal money as they look for new land to buy and contractors to build it? This could be a terrific opportunity to sell us out to foreign companies, like they did turning I95 into a toll road.
In the years i drove the 95 the toll increases were brutal. Philly to the 81 approaches 20 bucks and that was a couple years ago.
I assume this is simply the fig leaf to cover for another transfer of wealth to the elites and their managers.
If you really want to know why hiways were routed through ethnic neighborhoods, read this-
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2023854.The_Slaughter_of_Cities
Interesting reviews…
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2784412.Joseph_Hirsch
E. Michael Jones is the editor of a Catholic magazine “Culture Wars”, which you can find here; —> https://culturewars.com
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12 more reviews of the book can be found below. The reviews are on the Culture Wars website. As such, they are all positive. Nevertheless, it will give the reader a good idea regarding Jones’ worldview.
https://culturewarsmagazine.com/Review/SlaughterReviews.html
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Excerpts from the reviews ….
“This startling claim – that the breakdown of the Church in modern America had its origins in government-directed social policies of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, which originated in the government’s propaganda efforts during World War I to control the ‘enemy on the home front’ (the Catholic ethnics from Poland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and southeastern Europe) …”
” … the elites used World Wars I and II to ‘Americanize’ Catholic ethnics, … branded Catholics as racists …”
” …. Protestant elites and their Jewish liberal allies never hid their contempt for the white ethnics who resisted their plans for thrusting underclass blacks into ethnic Catholic neighborhoods.”
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Elites. America’s hatred for Catholics. Conspiracies dating back to WWI. Bad Protestants. And, bad Jews!! Something for everyone.
I have to wonder … is this really a book about highways? Or, something else altogether?
Wow. Just wow. I am going to go with “or, something else altogether”. The only group I know with a word for that level of pathological bullshit calls it “chutzpah” or something like that.
Jones thinks the answer to all of our problems is a Catholic monarchy.
This is about punishing Texas. I-45 in Houston is always being worked on, this go-round they want to widen it even more and to do so they have to go thru black neighborhoods that make Admin’s 30 blocks of squalor look downright prosperous. In addition to the human butt plug Buttigieg, Sheboon Sheila Jackson Lee (of Houston origin) has joined forces in calling the expansion racist.
It’s the first time the race card has been pulled on freeway construction but I daresay that soon, anything that the progs can use to push their agendas forward will all profit from being labeled racist.
I remember well, back in the day of Jim Brown … I could not stand him. Really. “Crazzzy niggah”, I thought to myself.
Jeezes H. Krist! He seems so NORMAL now!
Around 1969 I saw him live at the Civic Auditorium in Albuquerque NM. What a show. And I’m going to stick my neck out and say “Stucky, You would have liked it. James Brown was so in your face it was stunning”
OT note: The Civic Auditorium was built by pouring a huge concrete dome over a big pile of dirt and calling it an auditorium. The Civic Auditorium was not a class act but James Brown was.
Stuck…I recently watched in amazement that Jim Brown when asked about kneeling etc. said, ” I will never disrespect my country or my flag” . I would never kneel . He said that Colon Kaperdick should either be a football player or an activist but not both .
James Brown (“Jim” was the Cleveland Browns star) has been my favorite live (well, when he was alive, that is) performer since I first saw him at the Apollo in 1963. I attended maybe forty or more live appearances during my time in the USA. Never the same show twice. The man was a musical genius and a very athletic dancer. JB understood syncopation like very few have. Listen to this tune:
. Listen to the interwoven rhythm lines.
He recorded some duds, but overall… I have a huge collection, both vinyl and digital of his work, introduced my all-White freshman dorm floor companions to him, and most took a shine to him, as did an Italian aristocrat couple when I took them to the Apollo in ’71. We were the only Whites in the place. We were treated to a Jessy Jackson harangue before JB came on. The female half of the couple was so excited by JB she blurted out “He’s… He’s… like a go-ree-la”! Nevertheless, we survived to tell the tale.
R.I.P James Brown, one of the great talents of the 20th century.
I saw him perform in Memphrica a few years before his death and it was an amazing show. My wife and I were two of a few white faces in the crowd of about 3,000.
With this bullshit Vaccine Passport crap, the only way I will be able to travel is on highways and roads. Guess not.
I’m gonna miss NH in the summer, cuz noone is going to stick a needle in me. Ever.
The age of 0bama’s Trickle Up Poverty is being revived by Creepy Old Joe & Da Ho. Everyone will be equal in their poverty, except them, of course.
Welcome to the NonUnited States of Communista
We are being conditioned to view basic freedom as selfish.
And racist.
How about Buttigieg crawl back in the closet and suck his boyfriends dick and leave the realities of what’s going on in America to the Men & Women who aren’t wandering around living of taxpayers confiscated wealth or scurrying around Washington DC like cats covering up each other’s shit !
That was true back 50+ years ago. History didn’t stop in 1975.
The best thing about the libs’ plans is that government is so inefficient they won’t be able to accomplish much of their restrictive infrastructure. A few trillion dollars – when spent by the goobermint – will just mean a scattered array of Tesla chargers and a few Amtrak lines and that nobody will ride. Every morsel of food, every shipment to Whole Foods, every particle board desk from IKEA will continue to be shipped by trucks over roads.
There are 168,000 gas stations in the US. They’re not going anywhere. People aren’t giving up their internal combustion vehicles. What libs want and what they can accomplish are miles apart.
There is almost zero infrastructure spending in the infrastructure bill. I don’t even think the word “infrastructure” means what they seem to think it means. I am pretty sure infrastructure does not mean to maneuver for the eventual extermination of Whites.
Infrastructure = PORK
Kirsten Gillibrand, (D-NY) says that paid leave, child care and caregiving are “infrastructure.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/07/kirsten-gillibrand-proclaims-paid-leave-child-care-and-caregiving-is-infrastructure/
You’re wrong. electric powered vehicles are the future. Things change(not always for the better) Autonomous electric vehicles that are subscription based are what the tech leaders are pushing. I say this as the owner of a pickup with a 460 engine. Remember all those cars from the sixties and seventies? Kind of rare to see them now. Gas-powered vehicles will slowly fade away.
Not happening. So many Trucks from the 60’s and 70’s around here. Going with Iska on this.
Like I have had to tell my kids a thousand times, “You can want anything you want”.
Buttegeig should just dress up like Marie Antoinette and say” Let them ride bicycles!”
Too bad that was not a Tesla with self drive behind him (to save resources of course) .
they drove him in in several suburbans them then let him ride in on his bike pretending he’d ridden the whole way. Phony fake jerk
And he was followed by those same Suburbans, so had he ridden the bike the whole way, it still would not have saved a milligram of carbon emissions from the vehicles, but would have added a lot of CO2 as he was huffing and puffing on the bike.
The concept of racism is nonsensical. Why should you expect them to be able to make noises about it that are coherent?
Progtard road, bridge, tunnel design and engineering ( 2+2 = 5) will be the exemplar of the contemporary wave of ‘Murkin exceptionalism. Sec’y Buttplug is just the guy to put it into play with these bold initiatives.
Auntie believes that it is not too long until the Elite(Evil Fuckers and the Tools) get their flying cars, your doctor and attorney ride in a palanquin while self-service rickshaws become the standard for the Lumpen.
Then there is the proposed fee/tax on mileage driven; just the ticket to transport suck-cess.
Buckle up, comrades.
This looks more and more like the Chinese system backbone. They will destroy them, then will try to run the elections on the problem, they themselves created, while claiming that the movement in the country is still free for the vaccinated with a passport. Soviet Union and the Chinese tightly controlled/control the movement of their populations. This is a feature not a bug.
Elections no longer matter, to vote is to just give your consent to the fuckers. I am done with that shit. You want a vaccine passport, come and try it.
The first thing that the article made me think of is that roads and highways are black colored, so they are racist. (to me) Maybe part of the infrastructure repair should be to redo roads in a neutral color that would better represent all races. Oh, I forgot that only people with white colored skin are racist.
Our future in the hands of idiots who want to chop everyone off at the knees. I think they saw too many of those videos of the Chinese riding bicycles. Way too much Chinese influence in our country.
We have been spoiled for so long to the point of bankrupting our own future to get what we want. NOW. Now we have to invent new reasons to whine.
Ice Age Farmer talked about a plan to destroy the highway system as we know it. This video is very long for him. He usually keeps them to 20 minutes or less and he apologizes for the length but everything he went over ties into Agenda 2030 and the World Economic Forum. It’s not about racism or globull warming. It’s about control. But you already knew that.
But But But I Love CO2.
If Pete Buttigieg didn’t suck cock and take it up the ass, he wouldn’t have the job he has today. That says as much about his party as it does about him.