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Buttigieg Proposes Broad Plan To Counter Racial Inequality
NPR ^ | July 11, 2019 | Rachel Martin and Josh Axelrod

Posted on 07/11/2019 5:51:35 AM PDT by C19fan

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg got a really big boost to his campaign recently, announcing a staggering $24.8 million fundraising haul over the past three months.

But that hasn't changed one of the toughest realities his candidacy faces: support among black voters that barely registers in the polls.

Countering skeptics who doubt he can win crucial African American voters in the 2020 Democratic primary, Buttigieg rolled out the details of his plan to combat systemic racial inequality, named for legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass, on NPR's Morning Edition.

"If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequity and not just describing the problem — which is fashionable in politics — but actually talking about what we're going to do about it and describing the outcomes we're trying to solve for," Buttigieg told NPR.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020demprimary; buttgiggity; potus
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Buttigieg is matching Kamala Harris' $100 billion opening bribe.
1 posted on 07/11/2019 5:51:35 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Let me guess without looking:

Spend oceans of cash.

Do I win?


2 posted on 07/11/2019 5:53:57 AM PDT by relictele
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To: C19fan

It’s like poker, except they are ante-ing with our money, not their own.


3 posted on 07/11/2019 5:54:12 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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What do you want to bet that this guys money comes from the “Queer”, excuse me “Gay” community?


4 posted on 07/11/2019 5:54:35 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: C19fan

uh huh - “you poor blacks need whitey’s help to be equal”


5 posted on 07/11/2019 5:54:37 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: C19fan

The B-man is a male bimbo.

But, then again, that pretty much sums up all the X-chromosome wimps in the dimbulb party.

And sadly, the RINOS in the party of no balls.


6 posted on 07/11/2019 5:56:12 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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WHAT RACIAL INEQUALITY? Affirmative action etc removed all that, right? Dig deeper Dems, deeper


7 posted on 07/11/2019 5:56:17 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: C19fan

Raiding our wallets to buy himself some votes.


8 posted on 07/11/2019 5:56:45 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Skywise

Pete is on the down low, most blacks are not ok with that.


9 posted on 07/11/2019 5:57:23 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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Full Employment is the best thing to counter racial, or any other, inequality.
Trump is doing it as we speak. Buttgig is just talk.

10 posted on 07/11/2019 5:59:29 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: relictele

Are they gonna put more whites in the NBA and nfl?


11 posted on 07/11/2019 6:02:50 AM PDT by inchworm
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The black community does not like homosexuals.Boot -edge-edge will not be able to secure their support no matter how much he spends of his “war chest.”

Booty is just another bend over weakling as far as the black community is concerned.


12 posted on 07/11/2019 6:06:41 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Buttigieg is going to have a tough time with blacks. His entire campaign is built around being gay and most blacks, at least in the south, don’t like homosexuals. They’ll vote for one if they’re promising free stuff, but when there are 20 other candidates promising just as much free stuff they’ll reject the gay.


13 posted on 07/11/2019 6:07:19 AM PDT by GaryCrow
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Too late - he didn’t grovel enough at the indicated moment, and that moment has passed.


14 posted on 07/11/2019 6:08:55 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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Is he willing to take a public stand against homosexual rape of young boys?


15 posted on 07/11/2019 6:09:10 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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Hey, Mayor Buttiplugieg, why haven’t you implemented your ideas in South Bend to see if it works. You could call your plan the South Bend Over Plan. At least that would be more honest as that would be the way the taxpayers would see it.


16 posted on 07/11/2019 6:10:15 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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Shouldn’t buttplug return to south bend to handle the murders, violence and general malaise that exists in that failing city? What an incompetent boob. Typical DIM pervert and loser.


17 posted on 07/11/2019 6:10:31 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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What a slap in the face to blacks. “Okay, well.. if I give you enough free stuff you’ll vote for me, right?”


18 posted on 07/11/2019 6:11:28 AM PDT by Pravious
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He’s stuck at 5% among Dem voters. LOL. Your “flavor of the week” period is ovah.


19 posted on 07/11/2019 6:12:27 AM PDT by circlecity
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Here's a thought:

Use proper English

Get married and stay married

Drop this nonsense that excelling at math and other subjects are "acting white".

20 posted on 07/11/2019 6:14:06 AM PDT by ealgeone
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