Pete Buttigieg’s new proposals to empower black Americans are welcome, but he and other white candidates must challenge Trump’s base directly if they truly hope to eradicate racial injustice. Read Jamil Smith's latest
could lead us to varying conclusions of how competent a leader the mayor proved to be in the wake of the tragedy. The point, however, is that he could and should have done more to prevent it in the first place.
The Douglass Plan reads like he is trying to will that reality into being. After near radio silence from his campaign as far as policy dealing specifically with African Americans, this reads as though a President Pete would be trying to make up for the generational harms of slavery all by himself. I don’t say that to discourage him from trying.
It turns out it’s precisely a lot. Even still, his proposals are worth comparing to what some of his opponents have already put forward. The mayor wants a “21st Century Voting Rights Act,” but doesn’t outline how he would possibly get something like that passed. Harris’shas put forth a model for getting such legislation realized — using preclearance in states known to have histories of discrimination pertaining to that law — and making it effective.
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