Our illustrious Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg sat down with notorious race hustler Al Sharpton for a race-hustling showdown on MSNBC.

To show off his race hustling chops, Mayor Pete launched into a rant about how car accidents are racist.

Here's a breakdown of the hustle:

"We have a crisis when it comes to roadway fatalities in America. We lose about 40,000 people every year. It's a level that is comparable to gun violence.

Gun violence?

I guess a vehicle can be used like a weapon.

Like the time Darrell Brooks, a black man who rapped about killing white people, drove his SUV through a crowd, killing 5 people and injuring 40.

You remember him.

He was the guy that got out on $1000 bail for mass murder with a motor vehicle at the same time that Kyle Rittenhouse was held on for $2 million for defending himself with a gun.

Just for the record, Rittenhouse was acquitted, and Brooks got six life sentences.

Nice hustle, Mayor Pete.

And we see a lot of racial disparities. Black and Brown Americans, tribal citizens and rural residents are much more likely to lose their lives whether it's in a car or as a pedestrian being hit by a car," Buttigieg said.

The hustle here is based on a study from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

You're probably wondering why a journal of preventive medicine is studying car accidents and not, well, preventive medicine, and I have no answers for you.

But according to the study, black people were 4.5 times more likely to die in a car accident than white people (per mile traveled).

Now that last little bit is important. Mayor Pete's statistics are not saying that black people are more likely to be in a car accident.

It's not even close in the raw numbers. However, when you add in the number of miles traveled between the two races, white people travel way more miles, so proportionally, black people have more accidents per mile traveled.

And that's the problem with statistics. You can make them say anything if you put the right spin on it.

He continued, "There are a lot of reasons related to discrimination and related to even the ways that roads are designed and built, who has access to a safe street design that has crosswalks and good lighting, who doesn't have that access that can drive disparities, and we have a responsibility to act on that."

So what's his solution?

You'll recall Mayor Pete has a dream of taking all the highways out of the inner cities to reconnect communities of color.

And connecting people sounds good, right?

At least until you remember that places like Walgreens and Walmart are pulling out of these areas because of all the crime.

Imagine trying to go find groceries in inner city Chicago when the nearest grocery store is 30 miles away and Mayor Pete took away your highway to get there.

You'd have better luck going back to a horse and buggy than trying to drive on side streets through a city like that.

I'd say the climate activists would support that idea, but you know they'd just complain about all the methane emissions from the horse.

I think it's pretty clear that if there is systemic racism in our nation, Mayor Pete is the poster child for it, and somehow he's convinced black people their lives are going to be better once he's finished.

Lord, have mercy.