'Look if you think about it, white supremacy is the thing beneath the surface of American life that has come closest to ending American life,' Buttigieg said on The Breakfast Club.
2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg suggested that white supremacy and systemic racism pose the"greatest risk of ending the American project" while discussing his agenda for black voters.he Breakfast Club radio show
"Look if you think about it, white supremacy is the thing beneath the surface of American life that has come closest to ending American life," Buttigieg said."If you think about the Civil War, I would say that's the closest we've come to Americans ending and that was the force that brought that about."
The mayor went on to say that everyone needs to acknowledge their role in perpetuating the country's racialized system, noting that"our generation is either going to fix this or we're going to blow it."has shown Buttigieg to be struggling to garner support among African American voters. Those numbers further declined in the aftermath of a South Bend police shooting in June when a white officer shot and killed a black man.
"We've seen a rise in white nationalism, an economic gap between black and white workers that grows instead of shrinks, and worse health outcomes for black Americans, particularly new mothers, that should make us all wonder how the richest country on earth can allow this to happen under our noses," Buttigieg said in a statement when the agenda was released.
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