When Buttigieg took office, there were only 3 Black people in leadership positions in South Bend, including that police chief. Within 6 months there were zero.

But it gets worse...

There were allegations that Buttigieg donors were on the tapes that the police chief recorded, plotting with the officers on how to get rid of all the Black people in city leadership.

The Black community wanted to know if this was true. Buttigieg refused to release the tapes.

But it gets worse...

After all this, Buttigieg was polling at an impressive 0% with Black voters. Zero.

The press speculated that Black voters might not like Buttigieg because he is gay, essentially accusing all Black voters of homophobia (even the gay ones).🤦🏿‍♂️

Buttigieg leaned into this trope.

Because people infantilize Black folk, in particular Black men, they usually assume that they have more info than Black men voters, and make better decisions than us when presented with the same info.🤷🏿‍♂️

No one bothered to do what you did (ask Black men why they didn't like Buttigieg as a candidate).

White people that don't talk to or listen to enough Black people still believe that Buttigieg can be president in 2028.🤷🏿‍♂️

But that will never happen.

I said what I said. In 2020 Black men like me called the exact point his campaign would go from "surging🤡" to collapse.

We were right then and now.

Which is why articles like this are silly.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5898010-pete-buttigieg-democratic-presidential-primary-poll/

There is no math that has a Dem win the presidential election without massive turnout from and support from, Black voters.

Buttigieg will not get that.

For the same reason that Biden's second attempt couldn't get that.

It's a self-defeating strategy to try to run people with this record.

Iowa and New Hampshire are irrelevant for predicting the next Dem president.

Caucastrophies or caucasualties or caucuses are also nonsense.🤡

Black men are holding an Africus, and in ours we went to the corner of the room that says that we're not electing any more people with anti-Black policies.🤷🏿‍♂️

In 2019, people were surprised that I predicted the exact date of Buttigieg's stunning collapse.
🔮🧙🏿‍♂️

Becerra can probably win California without the Black vote. There aren't that many Black people in California. 🇫🇷Paris has more Black citizens per capita than California. Seriously! Look it up.🤷🏿‍♂️

Talarico might still win Texas even after what Dems did to Crockett. Hispanic self-preservation vote.🤷🏿‍♂️

But Buttigieg can't win the presidency. Neither can Rahm Emmanuel.

You can run as many polls or buy as much press as you want. Doesn't matter.

It's not going to happen.

All the fascists run to the GOP side of the see-saw. You need all the Black voters, specifically all the Black men, to counterbalance that.

And we're not going to do that for these dudes.🤷🏿‍♂️

The best that Dem presidential candidates with anti-Black track records can do, is win the Dem primary... and then lose in the general.

Then write silly and incorrect articles about how "Black men are moving towards Trump!🤡"

Dems complete this whole arc without ever having had one real conversation with any of the Black men voters that noped out.🤦🏿‍♂️

@jennifersmith

Yes! Lots! Black voters are surprisingly forgiving/ optimistic! Eg: Harris. AOC. Ossoff.

Ossoff is closer to the 2028 presidency than Buttigieg.

He speaks with similar clarity, but adds an understanding of racial issues in the US, and a genuine empathy for Black people that cannot be faked. He doesn't just show up to the closest Black church a few weeks before the election.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AsmVfa3BvvY&t=251s

@mekkaokereke I'm not American so maybe that explains this, but I've never heard of Ossoff.

@jennifersmith