Posted on 07/04/2019 7:06:18 PM PDT by madprof98
BUTTIGIEG REBUKES MAN AT CAMPAIGN EVENT FOR INSISTING HE TELL BLACK PEOPLE TO 'STOP COMMITTING CRIME AND DOING DRUGS'
Buttigieg, who has been mayor of South Bend since 2012, took questions from attendees Thursday at the Carroll County Democratic Party barbeque. One man, who identified himself as Dave Begley, proposed a new tactic to supposedly help the 2020 hopeful tackle the tensions between "police and the black community" in his hometown.
"Mayor Pete, there has been some controversy in South Bend between the police and the black community, and I have a solution for you, and I'd like you to make a comment on my proposal," Bagley said. "Just tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing drugs."
The question immediately drew resounding boos from the crowd.
"Sir, racism is not going to help us get out of this," Buttigieg responded, before the man insisted that his question "has nothing to do with race."
Buttigieg went on to explain the ongoing "systemic racism" that exists in America. "The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence of systemic racism," the mayor said, adding that "racism makes it harder for good police officers to do their jobs."
"It is a smear on law enforcement," he said.
Begley expressed resentment of Buttigieg's response following the incident and defended his question as not racist, according to Politico. He also reportedly revealed to journalists that he is a writer for the conservative Power Line Blog and attended the event so he could report on it.
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Blacks say that’s racist.
He is not worth the attention, or trash magnet
Its over for Buttgigity
Sounds like it was staged.
Blacks in South Bend really hate Little Pete B*ttplug, a total phony who pandered to blacks for votes and is now an absentee Mayor who has turned his back on South Bend.
Blacks can make blanket statements about all whites.
It’s “racist” to tell blacks self-destructive behavior, not racism, is the root cause of most the problems in the black community. Thus, the reason nothing ever substantial gets better for millions in the ‘hood.
[”The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence of systemic racism,”...sounds like evidence of phony statistics to me...... ]
They have to stop killing each other first.
The statistics might be right but they’re not telling you the black guy has a previous record or is violating probation or both.
“Black lives matter” is a racist movement
Very much so!
Plant. Mayor Pete needed this.
Yeah, right, that wasn't set up at all. Didn't even know CNN or MSNBC had a "town hall" scheduled. So full of ****.
BINGO.
Anytime the leftists wants to "have a dialog" it is really a one way monologue, a haranguing rant. There is no "dialog" about it.
One assumes that the blacks that go to jail more frequently for crimes than whites might be for how they react to officers in the first place, or they may have outstanding warrants for other things, or thy have a long histoy of priors and the cops know them by name...
When whites get violent or abusive towards officers, that pretty much guarantees they are getting arrested. The white card dont work when that happens.
A black expecting blacks to stop doing drugs and crime is a race traitor? Ooookaaaaay.
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