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While campaigning at a staged event in Iowa an audience plant urged him to tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing drugs.<ref>https://townhall.com/columnists/sheriffdavidclarke(ret)/2019/07/16/mayor-pete-gets-dragged-into-the-deep-end-of-pool-on-race-politics-n2550133</ref> Buttigieg stated: "The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence of systematic racism." However, though liberal "Politifact" tried to provide support for it (from liberal sources), even they could not validate it, finding that that the liberal biased [[ACLU]] study the Buttigieg campaign stated he was referring to "does not support what Buttigieg specifically said in Iowa."<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jul/10/pete-buttigieg/viral-moment-pete-buttigieg-fumbles-line-racial-di ] In viral moment, Pete Buttigieg fumbles line on racial disparities in criminal justice</ref>

While campaigning at a staged event in Iowa an audience plant urged him to tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing drugs.<ref>https://townhall.com/columnists/sheriffdavidclarke(ret)/2019/07/16/mayor-pete-gets-dragged-into-the-deep-end-of-pool-on-race-politics-n2550133</ref> Buttigieg stated: "The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence of systematic racism." However, though liberal "Politifact" tried to provide support for it (from liberal sources), even they could not validate it, finding that that the liberal biased [[ACLU]] study the Buttigieg campaign stated he was referring to "does not support what Buttigieg specifically said in Iowa."<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jul/10/pete-buttigieg/viral-moment-pete-buttigieg-fumbles-line-racial-di ] In viral moment, Pete Buttigieg fumbles line on racial disparities in criminal justice</ref>

Related to this is a  study of substance abuse treatment system using patients encountered in the Urgent Care Clinic at an inner city hospital (1998-2001), which found that of patients 18 years of age and older who reported cocaine and/or heroin use in the last 30 days, 82% of blacks reported current cocaine use compared to 54% of Hispanics and 57% of Whites, 94% had evidence of cocaine in hair in the last thirty days, compared to 74% of Hispanics and 66% of Whites.  At six month follow-up, Hispanics and Whites were four times more likely than Blacks to be abstinent from cocaine and three times more likely to be abstinent from any drug. Regarding short stay detox, outpatient counseling, methadone clinic, residential programs and AA and NA, blacks also had the lowest rate of contacts and were less likely than Hispanics or Whites to report contact with any of the programs.  <ref>J Addict Dis (Jan 2.  2007) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761118/ Racial and Ethnic Diversity among a Heroin and Cocaine Using Population: Treatment System Utilization]National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 02/20/20.</ref>

Related to this is medically reviewed research  that reports (in part) that African Americans are overall overrepresented among drug abusers in the United States - with a number of cultural factors at play - but that they are also more likely to seek treatment for their drug addiction.

 

*First-generation Caribbean Blacks are significantly less likely than African Americans to have a substance use disorder [indicating culture is a major factor].<ref>American Addiction Centers (February 19, 2020) [https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-statistics/african-americans Alcohol and Drug Abuse Among African Americans] Retrieved 02/20/20</ref>

 

Past research reported that while the total substance abuse admissions among African Americans has been steadily declining since the 1990s,  21 percent of admissions to substance abuse treatment facilities were African American in 2006 in comparison to 12 percent of non-Hispanic population (HHS 2008a).<ref>Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (Jan. 2009) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK83240  Chapter 6: Substance Abuse Among Specific Population Groups and Settings] National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 02/20/20.</ref>

 

A earlier study of substance abuse treatment system using patients encountered in the Urgent Care Clinic at an inner city hospital (1998-2001) found that of patients 18 years of age and older who reported cocaine and/or heroin use in the last 30 days, 82% of blacks reported current cocaine use compared to 54% of Hispanics and 57% of Whites, 94% had evidence of cocaine in hair in the last thirty days, compared to 74% of Hispanics and 66% of Whites.  At six month follow-up, Hispanics and Whites were four times more likely than Blacks to be abstinent from cocaine and three times more likely to be abstinent from any drug. Regarding short stay detox, outpatient counseling, methadone clinic, residential programs and AA and NA, blacks also had the lowest rate of contacts and were less likely than Hispanics or Whites to report contact with any of the programs.  <ref>J Addict Dis (Jan 2.  2007) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761118/ Racial and Ethnic Diversity among a Heroin and Cocaine Using Population: Treatment System Utilization]National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 02/20/20.</ref>

Former [[Obama]] [[Barack Hussein Obama 2008 Presidential campaign|2008 Presidential campaign]] manager [[David Axelrod]] tweeted after Buttigieg's announcement to run: {{quotebox|“Crowd seems very large, very impressive but also very [[white]] — an obstacle he will have to overcome. And by obstacle I mean deficiency.}}

Former [[Obama]] [[Barack Hussein Obama 2008 Presidential campaign|2008 Presidential campaign]] manager [[David Axelrod]] tweeted after Buttigieg's announcement to run: {{quotebox|“Crowd seems very large, very impressive but also very [[white]] — an obstacle he will have to overcome. And by obstacle I mean deficiency.}}