Buttigieg is struggling with black voters. He hopes his new “Douglass Plan” can turn things around. Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg introduced an ambitious new platform targeted at black voters on Thursday, calling for a broad series of political and policy reforms that would lead to a “comprehensive and intentional dismantling of racist structures and systems” in the United States. The announcement of the plan comes as Buttigieg works to convince black voters that he deserves their support.