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Celerity

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2. lowered A-A unemployment, raised A-A wages, wealth, home ownership levels,

Reply to VoicesAcrossAmerica (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 02:31 AM

Mar 2019

set up multivariate programmes and interfaces with the city's communities of colour, and didn't just pay lip service but worked in a empowering, caring, listening, inclusive, and action-driven manner.

South Bend is 45% minority, and he wins elections with over 80% of the vote, so is obviously doing something right.

He addresses some of this here:

Pete Buttigieg On Political Honesty, His Black Agenda, Open Homosexuality + More

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Buttigieg: racist behaviors cannot be excused because they can be connected to economic issues [View all] Celerity Mar 2019 OP

What did he do for African Americans in South bend? VoicesAcrossAmerica Mar 2019 #1

lowered A-A unemployment, raised A-A wages, wealth, home ownership levels, Celerity Mar 2019 #2

Mayors are more important True Blue American Mar 2019 #13

Won first term with 74%, second term with 78%, doing something right. Nt USALiberal Mar 2019 #15

evicted them during winter for not paying fines! robbedvoter Mar 2019 #16

Read what they say. True Blue American Mar 2019 #3

that's talking bout the national tenor and tone of Trump and the growing white nationalism, Celerity Mar 2019 #4

thanks for the info. the twitter crowd just flits from tweet to tweet like butterflies lol nt msongs Mar 2019 #5

So many are bots, or trolls (NOT just referring to the Buttigieg issue at hand). Celerity Mar 2019 #6

And the way so many people fall for that bullshit is what truly amazes me. InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2019 #8

We have bots here, too! True Blue American Mar 2019 #12

But they also speak about their hope and True Blue American Mar 2019 #9

oops, I thought you were the poster further up who asked about what Buttigieg had done for Celerity Mar 2019 #10

Since Indiana True Blue American Mar 2019 #11

So right! Mayor Pete, a progressive risin in the polls? Must be time to givim the Bernie treatment! InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2019 #7

That is exactly what I am seeing. babylonsister Mar 2019 #14