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Saturday, July 27, 2019

Pete Buttigieg: Black Voter Suppression ‘Made My Life Worse’

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor and 2020 White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg said Friday that black voter suppression made his life “worse,” suggesting it was one of the factors behind President Donald Trump’s election victory in 2016.

Buttigieg joined fellow presidential candidates Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) at the National Urban League’s annual conference in Indianapolis on Friday, where the 37-year-old lashed out at President Trump and touted his so-called Douglass Plan, aimed at combating what he calls institutional racism in the criminal justice system.

“I think for too long we have believed that we were on a path where systemic racism was going to take care of itself in this country,” the South Bend mayor stated, according to the Indy Star. “I’m going to be speaking about these issues not only with mostly black audiences, but with mostly white audiences.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

They r 13% of the population and half of them are in jail.

Anonymous said...

How is it voter suppression when you need an ID for everything except voting?

Anonymous said...

This guy is a real pain in the a&@