Thursday evening the Historically Black College, Claflin University, located in Orangeburg, South Carolina hosted a live podcast recording of ON ONE WITH ANGELA RYE. The CNN Political Commentator interviewed Mayor Pete Buttigieg about his plans in office if he is elected as President this upcoming November.
The interview took place at Minister’s Hall, the same exact location President Obama spoke in 2007, a local resident informed us. Angela stated that she wanted to interview Mayor Buttigieg because of The Douglass Plan.
The Douglass Plan
“A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTENTIONAL DISMANTLING OF RACIST STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS COMBINED WITH AN EQUALLY INTENTIONAL AND AFFIRMATIVE INVESTMENT OF UNPRECEDENTED SCALE IN THE FREEDOM AND SELF-DETERMINATION OF BLACK AMERICANS.”
This includes reforming broken criminal justice and health systems, strengthening access to credit and injecting capital into the Black community, and taking bold steps toward fulfilling long-broken promises of true equity.
Being that Mayor Buttigieg only has a 2% Black Vote in South Carolina, the discussion was very insightful for locals but also all Americans that may be interested in knowing more about the Plans, Policies, & Acts that he plan’s to implement as President of the United States of America.
Equity was an important word used in the interview, shit people tired of struggling. Working all day & night to live mediocre unfulfilled lives. Mayor Buttigieg was candid about the disparities in income and wealth. The Mayor is not for CANCELING STUDENT LOANS … something I need done like yesterday! When Angela asked him about his support for the HR40 Bill designed to study reparations proposals, she wanted to know if he would include equity beyond study & this is what he said
“There has been generational dispossession of blacks since 1619 which is directly connected to the dispossession today, compounded by the effects of slavery which ended TWO, AND ONLY TWO lifetimes ago. And if the Federal Government funded these harms, we have to fund a way to mend what has been broken.”
Angela grilled him about his 21st Century Homestead Act stating that the Homestead Act of 1862 gave access to land to 1.6Million White Americans and only 6000 Black Americans were given access to land. When asked about funding HBCUs, Mayor Pete really talked circles around the question.
Mayor Buttigieg stated that he & his husband — oh yea that’s the tea cause if he win we gone basically have 2 Presidents, I mean his husband is a school teacher he should have great insight on how to touch the youth — want to have kids and will have to go through a process therefore he’s all for egg freezing & IVF being covered by Health Care.
Angela ended the interview by asking what black women would he absolutely need on his Cabinet in the White House and here were a few names dropped… Dr. Susan Rice, National Security. Mayor LaToya Cantrell, New Orleans. Stacy Abrams. He added that his Cabinet will be 50% female.
Check out the live podcast here https://soundcloud.com/ononewithangelarye/road-to-2020-pete-buttigieg
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