Mayor Pete For President

Here is a comprehensive list of South Bend’s efforts towards racial justice and equity under Pete Buttigieg JS Follow Jun 25  · 13 min read “Intention went into getting things the way they are, and so it’s going to have to go into fixing it” —  Pete Buttigieg on The Breakfast Club Throughout his campaign, Pete Buttigieg has stressed the importance of reversing systemic racial inequality— built over centuries through intentional racist policies—with intentional and targeted anti-racist policies. Asked following his recent South Bend town hall whether he’s done enough, or anything at all, to put this into practice as mayor, he stated: “I don’t want to seem defensive, but we have taken a lot of steps. They clearly haven’t been enough. But I can’t accept the suggestion that we haven’t done anything.” To fact-check this statement, I decided to pull together a comprehensive (but not necessarily complete) list of Buttigieg’s work to promote racial j