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  • Pete Buttigieg’s stunt to prove black people really DO like him backfires in a HUGE way

    11/17/2019 4:33:44 PM PST · by DFG · 55 replies
    Twitchy ^ | 11/17/2019 | Sam J
    If you’re ever looking for a way NOT to win a primary look no further than the crap Pete Buttigieg pulled trying to prove black people really do endorse both him and his plan. Seriously. Wow. Rachel R. Gonzalez @RachelRGonzalez Yesterday Pete Buttigieg put out a list of 400 Black South Carolinians that endorse him/his plan. -A lot of the people are confused because they didn’t endorse. -42 percent of the list is white. -They used stock photos from Kenya. Yet we have heard nothing from his campaign.
  • A stock image was used to promote Pete Buttigieg’s plan for black America. It was taken in Kenya.

    11/18/2019 11:30:44 AM PST · by simpson96 · 35 replies
    WaPo ^ | 11/18/2019 | Allyson Chiu
    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...