also WHO, lesser known figures who get passed over to talk about the Rosa Parks’ MLKs’ and Washington Carvers’
Like Henrietta Lacks
14 points
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:yea: Buttigieg naming his civil rights policy the “Douglas Plan” was a dogwhistle you could hear from space.
The first indications there was confusion about some of Buttigieg’s claims of support came in October, when the campaign issued a press release in South Carolina that identified Rehoboth Baptist pastor and state Rep. Ivory Thigpen, and Johnnie Cordero, chairman of the Democratic Black Caucus, as prominent backers of the candidate’s “Douglass Plan for Black America.”
Democrat Pete Buttigieg overstated pledges of support from black leaders, public figures
