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This is a thread to explain the impact @PeteButtigieg's quote using the All Lives Matter line in one of his mayoral addresses in South Bend Indiana may hinder his performance in the Democratic primary. Here is the full speech southbendvoice.com/2015/03/11/ful…
And the context: this is a few months after the Ferguson protests. Ferguson prompts the All Lives Matter counter movement. And yes, I realize that most of the media coverage of All Lives Matter is later in 2015 and then in 2016 and that really, the HRCs and the Buttigeg's of the
world aren't using the phrase in its soon more loaded connotation, but I can also tell you that there is NEVER a time in the black community where the ALL Lives Matter isn't recognized for what it ultimately becomes recognized for. Not one single day. So it will be a political
liability for Buttigeg. And yes, as a few of you pointed out, this is a liability HRC had in 2016 but she became the nominee. HRC was the most dominant front runner in the history of the modern nominating system (not an incumbent Vice) AND had no competition. Plus, her use WAS 
