Buttigieg: Racial Inequality & Division A National Security Weakness Exploited By Foreign Adversarie

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When asked about systemic racism by CBS News' Ed O'Keefe, Buttigieg responds:

"...Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates. The mistrust of institutions. The mistrust of a country that has not served everyone equally, and I am not just talking about far off historic harms like slavery. I'm talking about housing, unemployment and criminal justice discrimination that is taking place in our lifetimes, in living memory.

And I think the challenge for white America is to realize that we can't be defensive about this. When somebody is saying that we are benefitting from living in a system that creates privileges associated with systemic racism, we can't kind of retreat into this idea that, "We're being personally attacked, so we're not going to want to talk about that." Or that, "Hey these were distant historic problems, we can't be held accountable for dealing with that." No.

The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War. And I am worried that in different ways we may not be able to imagine, in the 21st century, if these inequalities keep getting worse, then that could once again threaten to unravel the American project. The levels of inequality we're seeing — much of it driven by racial inequality — are something that very few countries can survive intact."

And, towards the end of the interview:

"As long as that happens, then we don't have the strength of being one country. And if you want to know whether this impacts you, white or not, think about the fact that foreign adversaries are now using racial inequality and division as a national security weakness, pitting Americans against each other over this and treating it as a wedge that can weaken America. And they're right, this is a deep weakness in an otherwise strong, and robust American system. It's why we got to deal with it in our lifetime."

More, including video, at link: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/16/buttigieg_racial_inequality_and_division_a_national_security_weakness_exploited_by_foreign_adversaries.html

[babylonsister]

1. He's so smart, eloquent, and right. nt

[BootinUp]

2. yep. nt

[IndyOp]

3. Pete has the intellect and passion to connect

big, big ideas. He is a guiding light.

[Ron Green]

4. Why, indeed, would this man not be our candidate?

The cynical and cowardly idea that we must nominate someone who, although a lesser light, might win more states, is not the idea or the principle we ought to follow in this election cycle.

[JI7]

5. because of the issue concerning the police dept in his city

[crazytown]

6. Why won't Pete by our candidate? Here's why -

April 14, 2019, South Bend Indiana, 26% AA, 15% Latino - a 99% white audience turn up to see their local boy run for president. POC had something better to do.

[Celerity]

7. In the latest South Carolina poll (and it is A rated by 538) Warren is at 2% with A-A voters

1 point ahead of Pete. She is at 5% overall.

Also your

a 99% white audience

is rubbish, as is your calling him 'boy'

It was a large majority white, granted, but he had a fair amount of Asians, Hispanics, African-Americans, etc., 99% white is just tosh.




https://www.scribd.com/document/416578375/Fox-July-7-10-2019-Complete-South-Carolina-Topline-July-11-Release#from_embed

[Kind of Blue]

8. I'm so glad that he raised enough money to stay in the contest.