I mean, he’s polling poorly with African-Americans in no small part due to that community’s homophobia, so that part isn’t really his fault. Oh and also because he fired a crooked police chief who happened to be black, but again not his fault the guy decided to commit a felony.
Funny how literally everyone I've seen make this take is white.
Is it really a "take" when you can just look at the polling? African-American support for gay marriage is routinely 10% lower than white support for it.
I think ur missing the point about it only being white people, typically privileged white people making statements like that.
I have seen enough evidence that I don’t think I’m making an even remotely unreasonable assumption by stating that one of them the major reasons Buttigieg does so poorly with African-American voters is that he’s gay. That evidence has come in the form of focus group results (https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article236516903.html), admissions from African-American politicians (https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/11/03/sotu-clyburn-buttigieg.cnn), and anecdotal evidence from conversations I’ve had with African-Americans I know personally who have talked about the homophobic comments their friends and family members have made over the years.
I'm sure your two black friends in real life count as enough evidence. Yeah black politicians, the same ones who hardly ever represent the interests of their constituents obviously know so much about this issue. Maybe if Pete actually did something and didnt come off as an idiot on issues about race his numbers would be better.
I'm not going to entertain this anymore. I honestly hate it when white people make statements like this. But I'm not surprised the out of touch atlas left does.
I mean, it's a pretty objective statement.
