On the South Bend Killing - stolen from elsewhere
IM SUBSCRIBE LOGIN Voices This isn't to do with black homophobia — and we do black Americans a huge disservice when we imply that it is As a queer black man, I want the inevitable obituary of the Buttigieg 2020 campaign to be honest Each of Buttigieg's accomplishments in South Bend came with an asterisk for black folks living in the area Michael Arceneaux New York 3 days ago Click to follow The Independent Voices Pete Buttigieg was always due for a reckoning with black voters. That’s what always made talk of his presidency — at least one set to begin on 20 January 2021 — more hypothetical than plausible. The signs were always there, but his champions never paid much attention. In 2012, a then 29-year-old Buttigieg leaped into controversy a mere 13 weeks into his mayorship of South Bend, Indiana when he fired Darryl Boykins, the city’s first black police chief. Boykins was under scrutiny from federal prosecutor