Every Politician Is a Lying MF
Mayor Pete Buttigieg isn’t the only candidate caught spouting BS
By Isvari Mohan Maranwe
Since the dawn of time, politicians have been liars. This is not news. Sure, not everyone is a bald-faced criminal like Donald Trump, but elected officials are trained to sugarcoat, hide, and obfuscate. If they tell the truth by chance, they never tell the whole truth or nothing but it.
Maybe “cancel culture” can change that.
On Monday, The Root’s Michael Harriot called out 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg for being “a lying MF.” He wrote about how Buttigieg whitewashed minority education issues and bragged about being a Rhodes scholar and Harvard graduate when he was, in fact, just very lucky. Readers responded on Twitter with scathing comments against the mayor. Within a few hours, #PeteButtigiegIsALyingMF was trending.
Much of the attention focused on a quote that Harriot unearthed from Buttigieg’s mayoral run in South Bend, Indiana:
“Kids need to see evidence that education is going to work for them,” Buttigieg explained whitely, when he was running for mayor in 2011. “You’re motivated because you believe that at the end of your education, there is a reward; there’s a stable life; there’s a job. And there are a lot of…
