I was at Mayor Pete's Goldsboro event today

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https://www.wral.com/buttigieg-going-to-north-carolina-for-rev-barber-visit/18804638/

The video is the entire question, answer session.

Mayor Pete worshiped at Rev Barber's church today (for those who don't know he headed the NAACP of NC for several years and is now head of a national anti poverty group). The press was in toe. Not only local but national. He did a great job answering questions and the part of the congregation that stayed seemed impressed (including Barber's son who is a former student of mine). He is trying no doubt about it. His campaign clearly knows what it is doing as well. I attached a link to a video of the q and a.

[SaschaHM]

1. Small world.

Barber's son is a former classmate of mine lol. (11/12th grade).

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2. hum

which son for me it was Andrew who I taught. I started at that school was his older brother was a senior.

[SaschaHM]

4. Ah, my classmate was William Barber III.

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5. I think he was a senior when I started. I had the room across from the media center that year

[GanjaGrower]

3. All in for Mayor Pete

I’ll be the first to admit that homophobia is a deep problem among southern African-Americans. I grew up in Mississippi and it just blows my mind that my community can be so bigoted and indifferent to oppression and discrimination, especially considering how familiar we are with being on the receiving side. Yet, sadly, it remains.

I do think and hope that this will die out with the older generations. Roll models like Dwayne Wade and Will Smith are helping, and younger people of color are increasingly rejecting this backwards outdated thinking.

This is a great move by Pete’s campaign that will pay dividends. I really do think he can win over southern black voters with his plans/ideas IF he can learn to relate.

[highplainsdem]

7. Barber pushed back against any suggestion that blacks are any more homophobic than whites.

Just showed a clip of that on MSNBC.

[SaschaHM]

8. A lot of that is prejudice and a fundamental misreading of statistics.

People look at percentages of support on issues without adjusting for the fact that whites outnumber blacks/ by large magnitudes. As such, something like a 10-20% gap in support for Same sex marriage(for instance) still means that there are millions more white voters against it simply because one race makes up ~70% of the population and one makes up ~10%.

They also tend to ignore the history of anti-lgbt legislation and the voters behind it. The amount of political power between the two groups is staggering and it shows.

[highplainsdem]

6. MSNBC is covering this now.