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Mayor and Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Is Lying on Black Families Who Want a Better Education - Philly's 7th Ward

Mayor and Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Is Lying on Black Families Who Want a Better Education - Philly's 7th Ward

MAYOR AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PETE BUTTIGIEG IS LYING ON BLACK FAMILIES WHO WANT A BETTER EDUCATION

Mayor Buttigieg, a presidential candidate who was gaining in some polls and in Iowa, wows some folks with his talk about equity, also, like most politicians (and educators for that matter) appears to operate with a deficit mindset about Black and Brown students.
video of an interview the presidential candidate did where he claimed the issue with underachievement is that Black kids didn’t have any role models, recently surfaced giving deeper insight into how Mayor Pete really feels. It’s no surprise. I am sure as a mayor and presidential candidate, Mayor Pete hasn’t been speaking to folks who actually educate the Black children he maligns in the video.
While running for mayor in 2011, the then-candidate while speaking about poor minority children, expressed, “‘Kids’ from ‘lower income, minority neighborhoods’ don’t have ‘someone they know personally who testifies to the value of education.’”
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>“Kids” from “lower income, minority neighborhoods” don’t have “someone they know personally who testifies to the value of education.” – Pete Buttigieg, 2011 South Bend CONTINUE READING: Mayor and Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Is Lying on Black Families Who Want a Better Education - Philly's 7th Ward