evidence: Things got really interesting when Pete Buttigieg, Biden’s new Secretary of Transportation, took the lead in articulating infrastructural justice issues. He addressed the uncomfortable history of racism in infrastructural planning in particular, turning to the history of the interstate highway system—the nation’s beacon infrastructure system, and one whose history is filled with claims of universal progress and prosperity—to explain his point. "There is racism physically built into some of our highways," he told the press, before going on to discuss construction processes that destroyed poor and minority neighborhoods, displaced residents and businesses, and cast social and economic communities into cycles of poverty and inequality.[8] [...] [8] April Ryan, "Buttigieg says racism built into US infrastructure was a ‘conscious choice,’" The Grio, April 6, 2021, https://thegrio.com/2021/04/06/pete-buttigieg-racism-us-infrastructure/; Sydney Pereira, "Buttigieg Observed Some Highways Have A Racist Past. Here’s What That Meant In NYC," The Gothamist, April 11, 2021, https://gothamist.com/news/buttigieg-observed-some-highways-have-racist-past-heres-what-meant-nyc; Corinne Grinapol, "Biden Administration Seeks to Address the Interstate Highway System’s Racist Past," Engineering News-Record, April 15, 2021, https://www.enr.com/articles/51593-biden-administration-seeks-to-address-the-interstate-highway-systems-racist-past.