evidence: Pete Buttigieg: ‘There is Racism Physically Built’ in American Infrastructure Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, during an interview with theGrio’s White House correspondent April Ryan, asserted that "there is racism physically built" into American infrastructure. [...] "There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that’s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars," added the transportation secretary.