TBT: Mayor Pete Buttgieg is Anti-Black and Anti-Poor
Presidential candidate Pete Buttgieg wasn’t ready to be confronted by two city’s worth of Black Lives Matter activists with his many problematic issues surrounding Black people in his city.
“… Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg visited a homeless shelter in Watts, California, on Friday morning, he was greeted on the sidewalk outside and heckled by about a dozen BLM protesters, some from his home town, who loudly denounced him as ‘anti-black and anti-poor.’”
“We haven’t seen Mayor Pete in a while. I’m surprised he’s here at a shelter [in Los Angeles] and not in South Bend at a shelter. We miss his face,” Kahmiil Middleton, 22, of South Bend said in an interview. She continued, criticizing Buttigieg for not returning to South Bend last month to address Young’s death.“We understand that he’s campaigning, but when you’re mayor, you have a job to do. He did not make that his priority,” she said.
Black Lives Matter protesters Anthony Thomson, left, Kahmiil Middleton and Katheryn Redding traveled from South Bend, Ind., to protest Pete Buttigieg in Los Angeles. (Credit: Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times)
BLM Los Angeles activists were proud to stand with BLM South Bend in speaking the truth about this unacceptable candidate.