Buttigieg details plan targeting systemic racism

[DonViejo]

BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 07/11/19 07:45 AM EDT

White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg on Thursday unveiled new details of a plan aimed at tackling "racist structures and systems,” promising to invest in policies to help African Americans.

Dubbed the Douglass Plan, after abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the policy would combat systemic inequalities by reforming health care, education, entrepreneurship, criminal justice and voting rights on a federal level.

Buttigieg first outlined the plan a month ago in an op-ed for the Charleston Chronicle in South Carolina.

Buttigieg's campaign on Thursday said he would increase federal resources for historically black colleges and universities and other minority institutions by $25 billion, eliminate mandatory minimum sentences and set a goal of tripling black entrepreneurs within a decade.

Other parts of the plan, like abolishing the electoral college and replacing it with a national popular vote, have already been publicized on the campaign trail.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/452560-buttigieg-details-plan-targeting-systemic-racism

[thesquanderer]

1. I hear Frederick Douglass is being recognized more and more. Great move...

Really kind of brilliant to name his program in a way that also reminds people of Trump's cluelessness on race.