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Pete Buttigieg: “Black owned businesses were systematically excluded from…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Mike Muse Interviews Pete Buttigieg on America's Future, Leadership & Public Service

Published | Video Starts at 21:21

So this is not something that was being kind of pulled out of thin air. And this is something that is based on a specific disparity. Look, Black owned businesses were systematically excluded from access to credit as well as Access to contracts. And I think there's this fiction that these things will just go away on their own. Right. Whether we're talking about what happens in the business community or what happens with families, this idea, well, if we just. (21:21–21:28)

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