By trying to compare bias against
homosexuals with racism, Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how disrespectful
and uncaring he is of people of color.
This was the unanimous response of
participants on the podcast about the November Democratic debate, in the series entitled Politics across generations, which
is aired at; https://anchor.fm/politicsacrossgenerations.
These
podcasts which cover a series of issues raised by persons vying to become
president in 2020, provides Political education from the perspective of the Baby
Boomers and the Millennial generation coming together to understand
each other’s view points and discuss those candidates, as well as their ideas.
The
moderator is Shadrach Williams, a 24-year-old Afro-American who is a graduate
of Florida International University (FIU) and author of the self-help book “A
month to re-create reality,” (available at Amazon.com). Other
discussants are fellow generation Z member, also a FIU graduate Shadaen Stevens
and me the baby boomer.
The angry
response to the attempt by the Mayor from a small town in Indiana to equate biased response to homosexuality
with racism, elicited comments like; Buttigieg does not care about
minorities, he told blacks at a demonstration that he didn’t want their votes,
his Douglas Plan is a cheap attempt to bribe black people, he demonstrated
ignorance about history and what racism has led to.
For in our view , if Buttigieg was honest, he would admit that blacks
were tortured and murdered to force them to work to enrich whites, and even now economic apartheid keeps us back, while homosexuals
have never endured such treatment from heterosexuals.
However,
it was revealed that none of us had listened to the entire debate, as it was felt, it was too large and unwieldy and came over like a lot of
noise. All of us therefore admitted that we got our information on the debate from the
news media.
This caused
moderator Shadrach, an admirer of Democratic hopeful Andrew Yang, to
reveal that Yang’s supporters are so upset about the poor coverage their
candidate receives from the traditional media, that it gave birth to the hashtag
“Yang media black out” on social media. He said, this victimization of the candidate is because the powerful people who
own the media houses do not want the masses to hear what Yang has to contribute, as he is trying to empower regular people.
Although
this podcast set out specifically to deal with the latest Democratic debate,
Buttigieg’s inappropriate assertion caused the discussion to veer into other areas inculding the serious problems transgender’s are causing in female athletic events.
Moderator
Shadrach Williams can be contacted at. wlliams.shadrach@yahoo.com
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