‘Lego Man’ Pete Buttigieg Mocked By Tucker Carlson For Implying That Roads Can Be ‘Racist’

Transportation secretary and “Lego Man” Pete Buttigieg was mocked by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson last night for implying that roads can be “racist.”

“You may have wondered what would happen if the dumbest people in the world gathered together in the same room and tried to have a conversation,” Carlson began.

Carlson then suggested, “Well for one thing, hilarity would ensue, it happened today” and then referenced Buttigieg’s appearance at the White House press briefing today.

At the press conference, Buttigieg was asked by April Ryan, who is the White House correspondent for The Grio, “Can you give us the construct on how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into roadways?”

Carlson pointed out, “Roads can’t be racist, you can’t build racism into a road. Roads are made of sand and gravel and asphalt, ask any road builder.”

Nevertheless, Buttigieg responded, “I’m still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a black neighborhood or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly black or Puerto Rican kids to a beach in New York or it would have been, was designed too low for the bus to pass by, that obviously reflects racism that went into that design choice.”

Carlson gave different scenarios that would explain Buttigieg’s explanation and added sarcastically that he agrees that it is “Morally wrong.”

A 2017 Bloomberg article reported on a book that suggested that “master builder” Robert Moses intentionally built bridges lower so that roads leading from New York City to Long Island beaches wouldn’t be able to be traversed by bus.

Of course, many of those roads were built when the city was still 90% white, so at best, he may have been trying to stop poor people in general from reaching the beaches, regardless of race.

Carlson tweeted a clip of his segment and said in the tweet, “Inanimate objects, like roads, can’t be racist. That seems obvious, though apparently Pete Buttigieg doesn’t know this.”

Inanimate objects, like roads, can't be racist. That seems obvious, though apparently Pete Buttigieg doesn't know this. pic.twitter.com/XabGgEa8jx

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 9, 2021