In a roundtable he did back then on a local television station, Buttigieg suggested that what was holding back black kids was a lack of role models. “There are a lot of kids — especially [in] the lower-income, minority neighborhoods, who literally just haven’t seen it work,” he said. ADADWhat Buttigieg failed to understand, Harriot contended, was that he too had been lucky, starting with the fact that he was born white. ADADBut instead, something remarkable happened: Buttigieg picked up the phone and called Harriot. “I don’t think I’ve ever been called a ‘lying motherf-----’ before,” the South Bend mayor told the columnist, by way of opening what turned into a frank conversation.

Source: Washington Post November 27, 2019 23:03 UTC