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White. then there was that killing of an unarmed black man in his city and his handling of that in south bend. this is definitely an issue that has constantly dogged him. however, i think he's genuinely trying to make inroads in this community and trying to sit down and talk with the african-american community. michael harriot and "the root" wrote that op-ed about mayor burg, his former comments in 2011 about that community. i think mayor buttigieg made a good move in sitting down and calling michael to talk about it and say, you know, essentially how he learned from those mistakes. >> i would...

People and you help us explain that, but also just take a step back and can we just be grateful that for once somebody picked up not phone a-- the phone and hada conversation with someone. >> again, there are various interpretations of wokeness, and most of which i stand opposed to, that demonize and stigmatize millennials and young people who are brought to the floor of consciousness that needs to be had. the impulse to say if i disagree with you, you're disposable, you can have a 30-year history of doing things with which i agree, but the one thing, you're done, you're gone, you're out. that...

. welcome back. mayor pete buttigieg is clarifying comments he made about black students from poor neighborhoods during a mayoral forum in 2011, this was before buttigieg was elected mayor of south bend, indiana. >> the kids need to see evidence that education is going to work for them. there are a lot of kids, especially the lower income in minority neighborhoods who literally haven't seen it work. there isn't somebody they know personally who testifies to the value of education. >> so buttigieg's offensive comments in that video began trending online yesterday. and they got backlash, inclu...

Backlash during a mayor forum in 2011 which recently surfaced. >> there are a lot of kids, the lower income minority neighborhoods who literally just have not seen it worked. there is nobody they know literally. >> a writer for "the root" denounce yd the comment. and buttigieg then called harriet. >> what i said did not reflect the totality of my understanding of what students face today. i understand why he was upset and the perspective. i am conscious of the advantages and privileges that i have had, not through any great wealth but certainly through education and not advantages of minoritie...

Insurance. well, now that's become mainstream. so i think you're starting to see kind of an evening out among the field. >> and michael, it's notable that i think mayor pete is in a statistical three-way tie with sanders and warren for second, but the headlines about him this morning are really more about these comments that he made back in 2011. let me play them. >> because you know, the kids need to see evidence that education's going to work for them, right? so you see a -- >> that's part of the motivation. >> yeah, because you're motivated because you believe that at the end of your educat...