Pete Buttigieg today responded to backlash for his 2011 comment that children from poor, minority neighborhoods struggle in school because they lack role models
On Tuesday, Buttigieg told reporters that he was speaking about the need for mentorship and career pathways.
“I wanted to make sure I communicated that I'm very conscious of the advantages and privileges that I have had,“ Buttigieg said, “not through any great wealth, but certainly through education, through the advantages that come with being white and being male — and that's part of why I know I've got to make myself useful as a candidate and as president.
In his piece, Harriot called Buttigieg a “lying motherf----r” for attributing black students' performance to a lack of role models, recalling his own experience crossing a ditch that separated the black part of his town from the neighborhood with the only high school. “This is why institutional inequality persists. Not because of white hoods and racial slurs. It is because this insidious double-talk erases the problem by camouflaging it. Because it is painted as a problem of black lethargy and not white apathy,” Harriot wrote.
Buttigieg said Tuesday that while he believes that some of the “characterization of me personally is unfair,” he understands the Harriot's perspective and largely agrees. The phone call between the writer and the candidate“Pete Buttigieg didn’t want to tell me his side of the story. He didn’t excuse himself by explaining that the comments referenced by the article were made years ago. He didn’t even try to explain his plan for black America,” Harriot wrote Tuesday.
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