Buttigieg has acknowledged that he is having a tough time connecting with black voters despite outreach efforts, op-eds, radio and television appearances and speeches to predominantly black audiences.
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg walked silently by the White House to attend civil rights leader Rev. William Barber’s “Moral Witness Wednesday” an interfaith event held near the White House.
Earlier Wednesday morning, Buttigieg published an op-ed in the Charleston Chronicle titled “Buttigieg’s Message Ahead of the BET Black Economic Alliance Forum,” a publication that is geared toward African American readers. The first sentence in the piece focused on Juneteenth, a date that commemorates that the last of the nation's slaves finally learned about the end of slavery in the U.S.
In the past week, Buttigieg met with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and visited with Raphael G. Warnock who is the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Ebenezer, which Buttigieg visited, is known to be the spiritual home church of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This continued efforts of reaching African American voters in South Carolina, will spill over to the weekend where Buttigieg will attend the Fight For $15 march in"The Holy City" of Charleston. During his last visit to the city, the South Bend mayor spoke to mostly white audiences asking for help"shaping the base of supporters we are building to not only help this campaign but to also shape it," he said."To find people who perhaps do not look like you.
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