After recent criticism of his lack of black support, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg held small roundtables and sit-downs in South Carolina in an attempt to reset his struggling outreach
Kimpson said Buttigieg is planning to return to do a larger town hall with him in January.
Meanwhile, video footage of the mayor’s 2011 comment that low-income, minority students lacked role models triggered a scathing essay in The Root, followed by another post, released hours later, that featured a conversation between author Michael Herriot and Buttigieg. Cobb-Hunter noted that Buttigieg isn’t the only one dealing with challenges among black voters — “that applies to Bernie Sanders and, to some extent, to Elizabeth Warren, too,” she said. But holding smaller meetings that allow for one-on-one conversations, away from news cameras, “shows intentionality and shows [Buttigieg] understands what his task is,” Cobb-Hunter added.
On Monday, Buttigieg visited Orangeburg again — but this time, he toured South Carolina State University, a historically black school, and bowled strikes with students at a bowling alley where three black men died in 1968 after South Carolina police shot at unarmed protestors demonstrating against racial segregation.
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