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TexasTowelie

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Sun Jul 28, 2019, 11:09 AM Jul 2019

Pete Buttigieg says students should speak out on bias, faults Trump for deepening divide

LOS ANGELES — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg urged students Thursday to speak out against racial bias when they experience it or witness it, and he faulted President Donald Trump for deepening the nation’s racial divide.

The South Bend mayor fielded a series of questions about race relations after encountering a group of Midwestern students in Los Angeles while he was on a tour of a business that was co-founded by the late rapper Nipsey Hussle.

His visit into a historically black neighborhood came about a month after he faced jeers from some black residents in his hometown following the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer.

The apparently unplanned encounter Thursday with the group of mostly black students gave Buttigieg the opportunity to reflect on the shooting, as well as listen to their concerns about ongoing racial friction in cities and schools. The group was on a tour of California technology companies and other businesses.

Read more: https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/politics/pete-buttigieg-says-students-should-speak-out-on-bias-faults/article_5be9eca3-21df-54ee-aacd-2b494b7ecdc1.html

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He asked how anyone could listen to the students' stories of racial division crazytown Jul 2019 #1
 

crazytown

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1. He asked how anyone could listen to the students' stories of racial division
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 11:16 AM
Jul 2019

“and not realize just how much trouble we are in".

One thing the Mayor's South Bend critics do agree on - he listens.

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