Commentary: Buttigieg's ongoing racial missteps
by Rich Benjamin, Los Angeles Times
Nov 27, 2019
4 minutes
When Pete Buttigieg burst onto the political scene, I fell in love.
During his first appearance on "The Breakfast Club," he sounded right at home chatting with host Charlamagne tha God. Buttigieg told the multimedia show's black listeners, "Let's honor teachers like soldiers and pay them like doctors." Months later, when Buttigieg answered a reporter's question in Norwegian, it practically closed the sale. As a voter who studied abroad and is white-collar, bilingual and gay, just like Buttigieg, how could I not warm to the man? Our life stories had so much in common.
Now, however, my attraction to
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