A beautiful illustration of the difference between Twitter and the real world is the viral status of Michael Harriot's attack on Mayor Pete Buttigieg in The Root as a “lying MF.”
Buttigieg's sin was to state, in 2011, that inner-city black kids are hobbled from getting the education they need because they lack role models who attest to the benefits of education. “And there are a lot of kids—especially [in] the lower-income, minority neighborhoods—who literally just haven't seen it work. There isn't someone who they know personally who testifies to the value of education.”
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