Opinion: I fell for Pete Buttigieg at first. But he keeps screwing things up with black voters (via latimesopinion)
conducted by the campaign: Many respondents, undecided black voters in South Carolina, reportedly said they would not support Buttigieg, because they were uncomfortable with his sexual orientation. That information was featured in news outlets across the country.
Buttigieg’s missteps with black voters date back more than a decade, to before he became mayor of South Bend, Ind. in 2012. A recently resurfaced video from 2010 shows the future mayor talking about a South Bend tea party organization, Citizens for Common Sense. In the video, he reaches out to the group, saying he believes “we might find that we have a lot in common.
It’s not as though black voters are a monolith or that we vote strictly according to skin color. We are a diverse bunch, full of nuance shaped by our geographical location, gender and generation. The Democrats among us — a large majority — care about the same issues as other party members: a candidate’s ability to beat Trump, healthcare, education, reducing income and wealth inequality, student debt, and climate action.
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