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Pete Buttigieg: “Institutions and big banks that made big commitments during…”

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 16:39

… the future with an administration that was so actively hostile, completely hostile to anything that even considered these structural disadvantages, that people would be afraid to do the right thing. Institutions and big banks that made big commitments during the summer of the murder of George Floyd, for example, now running away from it. would have been hard to live up to those promises in the first place. Now running away from them because they believe they will be punished by this administration for ever even using a word like diversity. (16:39–16:48)

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Asserts that institutions and banks are retreating from commitments made after George Floyd's murder.

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