Out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has revealed the details of his Douglass Plan, billed as a "comprehensive and intentional" strategy for dismantling racist structures and investing directly in the wellbeing of black Americans.

Borrowing its name from black writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Buttigieg's new plan targets a handful of systemic issues to which black people are disproportionately vulnerable, including access to health care, adequate public education, opioid addiction, voter disenfranchisement, and more.

The proposed policy—laid out step-by-step with a whooping 75 citations of data and statistics on Buttigieg's campaign website—specifically caters to black Americans. Buttigieg insists that "by achieving greater equity for Black Americans we lay the groundwork for achieving greater equity for other people of color as well":

When Black America experiences economic justice and opportunity, we all benefit. When our democracy works for Black America, it is a better democracy for all of us. ... The Douglass Plan is a specific plan for Black America–but it also establishes a deep and solid foundation for racial and economic justice for all communities of color and for all Americans.

As CNN Politics reports, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has historically struggled to win support from black voters. A recent CNN survey found that he's polling with less than 0% of black voters nationwide.

In addition, Buttigieg faced criticism and intense scrutiny of his record on racial issues from Democrats of all walks of life after a white police officer shot and killed a black man in South Bend last month.

As The New York Times reports, Buttigieg took the matter seriously, suspending his campaign temporarily to return to South Bend and meet with black members of the local community to diffuse tensions and discuss next steps.

Referring to the Douglass Plan, Buttigieg told the Associated Press that "good intentions" from white Americans "are not going to be enough" to rectify decades of injustice against black people in this country.

"This is my entry, as specifically as possible, about what we can do across all these different areas of American life where the black experience is very much like living in a different country,” he added.