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A stock image was used to promote Pete Buttigieg’s plan for black America. It was taken in Kenya.
WaPo ^ | 11/18/2019 | Allyson Chiu

Posted on 11/18/2019 11:30:44 AM PST by simpson96

The photo of a black woman smiling at a young black boy had been splashed for weeks across a web page detailing South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s plan to combat racial inequality, which he billed as a “comprehensive investment in the empowerment of black America.”

But when the woman in the photo learned her likeness was displayed on the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign website, she was confused, the Intercept’s Ryan Grim reported Sunday. The woman isn’t African American and she’s never heard of the Douglass Plan — she is from Kenya, where the picture was originally taken.

“[W]hat’s the meaning of the message accompanied by the photo?” the woman asked Grim. “Have no idea of what’s happening...”

The photo mix-up is just the latest controversy to erupt around the Douglass Plan since it was rolled out in July as part of Buttigieg’s effort to make inroads with black voters. While recent polling has shown Buttigieg surging toward the front of the crowded Democratic presidential field in Iowa, the candidate has struggled to draw support from African Americans.

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1 posted on 11/18/2019 11:30:44 AM PST by simpson96
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Well, we all know that a Kenyan can become President, so what’s the big deal?


2 posted on 11/18/2019 11:32:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: simpson96

It was borrowed from ‘Barack Obama Jr - The Early Years’


3 posted on 11/18/2019 11:32:57 AM PST by relictele
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To: simpson96

Democrats are all fakes and phonies - and this shirt-lifter is no exception.


4 posted on 11/18/2019 11:32:58 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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5 posted on 11/18/2019 11:35:31 AM PST by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: simpson96

Black people don’t like gay people. Not always, but by and large.


6 posted on 11/18/2019 11:35:51 AM PST by babble-on
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To: simpson96

More demwits lies.


7 posted on 11/18/2019 11:35:58 AM PST by bgill
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To: dfwgator

Well, we all know that a Kenyan can become President
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They can be usurpers, but they need the help of both parties.


8 posted on 11/18/2019 11:36:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: simpson96

So, Mayor Pete’s plan is to make Black America like Kenya?


9 posted on 11/18/2019 11:37:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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They’re darker over there. Even blacks here prefer the light skinned amongst themselves.


10 posted on 11/18/2019 11:41:04 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: babble-on

What? Haven’t you been paying attention? Buttigigity says being black is exactly the same as taking it up the wazoo. Recreational buggery with another man = being born black.

The assmaster from South Bend said so...


11 posted on 11/18/2019 11:41:48 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: dfwgator

The Sodomite president left office 148 years before the Kenyan was sworn in . . . so Mayor Pete is just trying to step up his novelty game a decade later.


12 posted on 11/18/2019 11:44:19 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: DesertRhino

See, once the black voters learn that born-wealthy, ivy-educated gay people are oppressed just like slaves and sharecroppers were, they’ll change their attitudes immediately.


13 posted on 11/18/2019 11:44:58 AM PST by babble-on
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To: dfwgator
Did he include this picture?

Obama-Muslim-

14 posted on 11/18/2019 11:46:06 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SeekAndFind
So, Mayor Pete’s plan is to make Black America like Kenya?

The last Kenyan we had as president was making great progress in that direction before Trump came along to spoil it by creating actual jobs.

15 posted on 11/18/2019 11:46:06 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: relictele

That’s funny.

His distant blood relations could actually have been in any group photo of Kenya. Just like all of us have resemblance to people of our great grandparent’s countries.

The only thing Obama didn’t resemble is an American.


16 posted on 11/18/2019 11:46:18 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: simpson96

No one told the socially-conservative Africans they are being coopted without their permission to support the Gay Agenda.


17 posted on 11/18/2019 11:46:43 AM PST by PGR88
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we owe gays, transgenders and hispanic for bringing them to this country on slave ships.


18 posted on 11/18/2019 11:47:59 AM PST by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: simpson96

So the plan is back to Africa?


19 posted on 11/18/2019 11:48:13 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: SeekAndFind
So, Mayor Pete’s plan is to make Black America like Kenya?

Yes.

Imagine how easy it will be for us to maintain dirt floors in our homes. No Swiffer or special floor cleaners and mops or Dyson vacuum cleaners.

And those nailed together salvaged doors and galvanized steel garbage cans flattened into walls last for decades. Just re-use big plastic buckets from ice cream or lard from restaurants to place under rain water streams from overhead.

And they say Kenyans have low carbon footprints.

20 posted on 11/18/2019 11:54:52 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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