Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The term "boy" when referring to a black man is considered a racial epithet [View all]marylandblue
(12,344 posts)The AA community in South Bend does not trust him. As in so many other places, years of smaller incidents were not properly addressed, no improvements in everyday policing made. If you have a community already upset about those other things, you have no reservoir of good will to draw on when a major incident happens. So they are upset and yelling at him, they are frustrated and he is frustrated.
This will probably kill him with AAs nationwide, unless he comes up with some fancy way out of this, but I don't know if that's possible at all.
No glass houses here. I try to take a very clear-eyed view of all the candidates, particularly how they work with the media and how well they control their messages. Buttigieg is very good at media relations and message control, but AAs are his Achilles Heel and he just took an arrow there.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden