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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Highway Racism - If You Don’t Know, Now You Know

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Daily News, Comedy, News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Highways are the vital arteries that help transport goods and help workers commute to the office, but their origins are rooted in racism.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.6

BAM!

0:04.1

One of President Biden's biggest accomplishments so far, I mean, aside from allowing students

0:09.3

to keep their debt, has been the infrastructure package.

0:12.7

It's a $1.2 trillion law that's going to help rebuild roads, expand access to clean drinking

0:18.7

water, and finally get around to adding all the other colors to stoplights.

0:23.6

And while most of the infrastructure package was pretty uncontroversial, there was one thing

0:28.4

that was very deep in the package that has actually gone a lot of people riled up.

0:33.1

Democrats, led by President Biden, say now, is the time to build back better.

0:38.3

But leaders don't just want to build and update roads.

0:41.4

In some cases, they went highways torn down.

0:45.0

Democrats would like to provide funding to tear down highways that had a damaging effect

0:48.7

on urban minority communities.

0:50.6

There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that's why the jobs plan

0:55.1

has dollars specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided.

1:01.0

Critics, though, slamming the secretary after he said Biden's infrastructure bill would

1:05.0

address racism in highways.

1:06.9

I guess now, according to Democrats, roads are now racist, and you need to apologize

1:11.8

for it.

1:12.8

Roads can't be racist.

1:13.8

You can't build racism into a road.

1:16.2

Roads are made of sand and gravel and asphalt, asking a road builder.

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