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Houston highway project sparks debate over racial equity

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Yes this was the roads and bridges are “racist”comments from few weeks ago that followed the Vice President telling us that trees are also racist.

who knew?

Anyone who knows what's going on inside the right wing bubble want to give some context to the above quote? I'm not knowing this bubblespeak.

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A $9 billion highway widening project being proposed in the Houston area could become an important test of the Biden administration’s commitment to addressing what it has said is a history of racial inequity with infrastructure projects in the U.S. 

So the Biden Administration is funneling a $9B project to the Houston area, but “It’s very racially unjust,” Molly Cook with Stop TxDOT I-45, one of the community groups opposing the project,

Ok, let's ride with that narrative---the Biden Administration engages in racially unjust practices.

Of course, if the Trump Administration withheld the same $9B and such project could not go forward, he would be racist for not appropriating that money to the Houston area.

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Why am I not surprised that "go it alone Texas" is so willing to accept federal dollars for a project that sounds like it would primarily benefit big oil and big auto while bringing even more problems like worse air quality to lower income neighborhoods. US highways since the days of Eisenhower have a history of ripping up poorer neighborhoods while benefitting richer ones.

It looks like Biden is just maintaining the status quo, which probably is to be expected from a centrist politician like him, one who knows that the fossils running the US fossil economy are still in charge. Biden is probably politically unable to budge the establishment, but at least so far he has not given them huge tax breaks. Biden knows the establishment will get even richer off the infrastructure projects. But I am disappointed so much money is still being given to highway projects, hopefully more money will be given to improve the US's limited, so limited it's near non-existent public transportation systems.

Long passed time to stop burning such huge amounts of fossil fuels.

Let Texans go it alone, stop subsidizing big oil. If Texans want to continue to breathe eshaust fumes let them deal with the messes they have made for themselves. Many Texan politicians want little to do with the country. Look at Texan kooks like Ted Cancun Cruz. Louie Gohmert, Dan Crenshaw and other far far right Republicans, many deep inside the crackpot QGOP big tent.

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Racist trees:

Vice President asks NASA if it can ‘track’ trees in different neighborhoods to combat racial inequality

racist roads and bridges:

"Buttigieg Says U.S. Will Use Infrastructure Bill to Address Racist Highway Design"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-08/buttigieg-targets-racist-road-design-with-public-works-bill

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It looks like Biden is just maintaining the status quo, which probably is to be expected from a centrist politician like him

Centrist??? ROFL!!  

Let Texans go it alone, stop subsidizing big oil.

Sounds good to me!

If Texans want to continue to breathe eshaust fumes let them deal with the messes they have made for themselves. Many Texan politicians want little to do with the country. Look at Texan kooks like Ted Cancun Cruz. Louie Gohmert, Dan Crenshaw and other far far right Republicans, many deep inside the crackpot QGOP big tent.

I’m sure about the other rant but I will say this, there is no way we’re going to give up cars right now, there’s no way we’re going to give a paint, there’s no way we’re going to give up our bowling balls, our computers, our toothpaste, our shampoos, our disposable dinner plates, oil is not going anywhere at least for the foreseeable future and if people are telling you it is, they’re lying to you, the best thing that we can do is the drill for all the natural resources that we have at home and at the same time we can figure out and work on better and more cleaner and sustainable energy sources, but right now we need to use what we have and not rely on foreign adversaries and people that hate us or want to kill us for oil

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It looks like Biden is just maintaining the status quo, which probably is to be expected from a centrist politician like him

Huge deficits. Yes indeed - status quo. The raging inflation is a different story. biden and his family are spending Thanksgiving at a billionaire private equity investor pals place in Nantucket. This passes on the Left for Scranton Joe getting back to his blue color roots.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/24/biden-spending-thanksgiving-at-private-equity-billionaires-home/

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Vice President asks NASA if it can ‘track’ trees in different neighborhoods to combat racial inequality

This doesn't say that trees are racist.

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Yes this was the roads and bridges are “racist”comments from few weeks ago that followed the Vice President telling us that trees are also racist.

who knew?

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