Pete Buttigieg actually said...
I`m still surprised that 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 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.
Context
Buttigieg discusses the historical racism embedded in infrastructure design.
11/10/2021