“There is racism physically built into some of our highways.”
What PolitiFact found
In city after city, highways have been designed in a way that prompted the demolition or fragmentation of Black neighborhoods. The reason is a combination of racism, lower real estate costs, and weaker political clout.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Pete Buttigieg (Transportation secretary) made this claim around 6 April 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 April 2021, 9 days later. Its rating was “True”.
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.
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