“If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach — or that would’ve been — in New York was — was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.”
What Washington Post found
This is a famous anecdote from Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses but it remains unconfirmed and historians increasingly doubt it.
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In short
Pete Buttigieg (Transportation Secretary) made this claim around 8 November 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 November 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Historians doubt”.
Pete Buttigieg has 33 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 17 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/11/08/press-briefing-by-pri…
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