Struggling to gain support from the African American community early in Democratic presidential primaries, Pete Buttigieg has unveiled a full-scale policy plan aimed at uplifting and supporting black Americans.
The South Bend, Indiana, mayor on Thursday released the details of his Douglass Plan, a method for the federal government to"intentionally dismantle racist structures and systems."
Buttigieg's plan calls for implementing a health care policy grounded in anti-racism by creating a"National Health Equity Strategy" to focus on black Americans in health systems. A training system also would be put in place to combat racial bias in medical treatments. To bridge the racial wealth gap in the U.S., Buttigieg is pledging to award 25% of federal contracting to small business owners from underserved communities, including minority and women-owned firms. He's creating the Walker-Lewis Initiative in the hopes of tripling the number of entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds within a decade, and creating 3 million new jobs in minority communities.
The full plan is a follow-up to a preview he published in a Charleston Chronicle op-ed on June 11, but the mayor was sidelined from promoting it in the following days after a black man, Eric Logan, was shot and killed by a white police officer, Sgt. Ryan O'Neil, in South Bend on June 16.
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