Buttigieg’s Scheme To Spend Billions & Billions To End Racial Division
I & I Editorial Board
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg earlier this month floated his boundlessly audacious “Douglass Plan†– that’s Frederick Douglass – “comparable in scale to the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II.â€
Buttigieg appropriates terms associated with economic freedom, like “prosperity†and “investment.†He envisions “injecting capital into the Black community, and taking bold steps toward fulfilling long-broken promises of true equity.â€
He’s not the only 2020 Democrat guilty of inequality in capitalization, it so happens; Buttigieg’s rival Kamala Harris observes on her website that “Overall Black households will continue to have just a fraction of the wealth held by white households.†Capital B for Black, but small w for white.
Same with Elizabeth Warren: “Decades of outright discrimination by the federal government denied Black [capital B] families the same kinds of homeownership subsidies available to white [small w] families.â€
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