Addressing race in Bronzeville forum, Buttigieg says: 'We have to act'

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg brought his presidential campaign to Bronzeville Tuesday night, addressing a host of issues related to race in the United States.

"We need to act on the knowledge that this country is being dragged down by racial inequality," Buttigieg said. "It is making the entire American project vulnerable. We have to act."

Before taking questions from audience members, Buttigieg touted his "Douglass Plan," named for the ex-slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, which he said would work to end "systemic racism."

"We're going to invest in the knowledge that the American Black experience might as well put you in a different country, and we cannot allow that to persist," he said. "You cannot just replace hundreds of years of racist policy with a neutral policy and say, 'OK, should be good to go now,' and expect inequity will work itself out in the system."

It was impossible to ignore, though, that the crowd of 1,000 at the Harold Washington Cultural Center was overwhelmingly white.

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