After Pete Buttigieg's eight years as Mayor of South Bend, it's hard to say which has changed more — him or the city he's run.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — After Pete Buttigieg's eight years as mayor here, it's hard to say which has changed more — him or the city he's run.
He ditched the suit jacket in favor of his current uniform of rolled-up sleeves, and began to make a human connection with his constituents after an"aha moment" face to face with a young murder victim's mother. Some $200 million in investment poured into downtown and new condos, offices, parks, restaurants and cafes sprang up.
The prosperity that spread through downtown, however, never made its way to the city's low-income neighborhoods.found that, amid a broad citywide decline in unemployment, the jobless rate among African Americans was still nearly twice as high as it was for white residents, and that 40 percent of the city's black community still lived in poverty.
But as many African Americans saw it, a black chief was being pushed aside for trying to fight racism."It was meaningful to the African American community to have people in those kinds of positions," said Hardie Blake, a black pastor."With Boykins, it definitely created distance.
"Part of his data-driven approach, and part of the ambitious timelines he set for himself, meant that when things went wrong, they often did harm before things could be fixed," said Nate Levin-Aspenson, a South Bend activist with the local Indivisible chapter, a national progressive group."That’s kind of the peril of taking a data-driven approach. Your data and algorithms always reflect the biases of the people who create them.
"I had no relevant skills for this situation; nothing from my McKinsey training or college education was going to be useful here," Buttigieg wrote in his memoir,"Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and Model for America's Future." He began trying to communicate better with the city's minority community, making efforts to listen and learn about how his"1,000 Homes" and downtown revitalization initiatives were not helping low-income neighborhoods.
And as he considered his own mortality, he realized he had to be true to himself about his sexuality —"to reconcile my professional life with the fact that I am gay," as he wrote in his memoir. The Boykins situation, he recalled of his demotion of the police chief, taught him the significance of a single decision.
His style is in many ways the opposite of that of another presidential contender, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., who as the mayor of Newark was known for personally responding to tweets about unplowed roads by showing up with a snow shovel and digging in.
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