Buttigieg hopes to woo black voters
Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg, right, listens to Rev. William J. Barber speak about the Poor People's Campaign before taking questions at Greenleaf Christian Church, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019 in Goldsboro, N.C. (The News & Observer via AP)
In his visit to a predominantly African American church, Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic presidential candidate from Indiana, made sure to arrive early and to bring his Bible with him.
He took a seat in the third pew at William J. Barber’s racially diverse Greenleaf Christian Church on December 1, and to all appearances Buttigieg, a Harvard graduate who became a Rhodes Scholar and speaks seven languages, was the perfect church guest.
He bowed his head in prayer. He rose with everyone else to recite a litany honoring Rosa Parks and other women leaders on the 64th anniversary of her defiant refusal to give up her seat to a white person on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
