Pete Buttigieg Complains There’s Too Many White Construction Workers

There are growing concerns about the impact of the continuing effects of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment This led to the burning of vinyl chloride in order to prevent an explosion. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, however, remained silent at a Monday conference. Instead, he focused on the large number of white construction workers throughout the country.

 “We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color, that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don’t look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood,” Buttigieg stated this during the National Association of Counties Conference.

“You can build community wealth that will help close wealth gaps in this country if we can tear down those barriers. But that happens at the delivery level,” He added.

Buttigieg also blamed the Covid-19 pandemic on the state of American infrastructure in the same conference speech.

“It’s had its challenges, right? I mean, if you look at what the American transportation systems have faced in the last two or three years, partly because of the pandemic, we’ve faced issues from container shipping to airline cancellations. Now we got balloons,” He stated.

According to Fox NewsThe transportation secretary didn’t address the February 3rd derailment of the Norfolk Southern train carrying vinyl chloride in East Palestine. The chemical began to leak and authorities realized that it was best to evacuate the surrounding area and burn it off to prevent an explosion.

Residents have complained of a chemical odor in the air and dead fish, among other things, even though they were allowed back to their homes by the Biden administration as well as state officials.

Vinyl chloride is a carcinogen, as well as ethylhexyl acrylate, which was carried on the train. 

Two more trains were derail in the US on Monday. One in Enoree (South Carolina)And another in Houston, TexasAccident caused by an 18-wheeler truck driver who crossed tracks and was struck fatally. The train crossing in Houston was not equipped with lights or gates, according to police.

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