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NY Times: ‘How Some Black People Feel Inside the Buttigieg Campaign’

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Mitch Gayns alerted me to this story on Twitter. “#TeamPete Fundraising Text: Did you see what the New York Times recently reported? Check out that headline! Looks for NYT articles in my Inbox: nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/ Don’t think this is how they’d hoped these line-up…”

https://twitter.com/MitchGayns/status/1222162936770256897

The certainly titillating headline goes on to say, “As the candidate courted nonwhite voters, employees of color were voicing their frustrations, according to interviews, documents and a recording. The campaign said it worked to foster a progressive workplace.”

Buttigieg advisers say the retreat was part of an ongoing effort to foster a progressive culture that empowered employees of color. For some of these staff members, however, the workplace itself was a problem, and working for a candidate with so little support from black and Hispanic voters had become demoralizing.

 

In interviews, current and former staff members of color said they believed that senior Buttigieg officials didn’t listen to their concerns and ideas about the campaign. One said there was a daily “emotional weight” on people of color who felt they were employed in order to help the campaign meet its ambitious diversity targets. Some Hispanic employees felt disrespected when managers asked them to translate text, even if they didn’t speak Spanish.

Read the full story here.

It’s probably the most problematic piece I have read in the NY Times in memory that wasn’t an Op-Ed. Like with  Bernie Sanders, the Times seems have to crafted self-fulfilling narratives for both candidates that they now are reporting on. #SMH

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