“Systemic racism” in the United States “is a white problem,” according to Mayor Pete Buttigieg — who held up the El Paso shooting as proof while speaking at an event Thursday night.

“We are by no means even halfway done dealing with systemic racism in this country,” said the 2020 Democratic hopeful during a National Association of Black Journalists conference in Miami.

“I hope over the course of the campaign you will see how I speak about these issues not only with mostly black audiences, but with mostly white audiences,” Buttigieg added. “Because if there’s anything we’ve learned in the last few days, systemic racism is a white problem.”

Buttigieg — who is mayor of South Bend, Indiana — appeared to be referring to the suspected motive behind last Saturday’s El Paso shooting, which left over 20 people dead and dozens more injured.

Authorities believe accused gunman Patrick Crusius was a supporter of white supremacy and allegedly authored a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto — which spoke of a “Hispanic invasion” in Texas.

Democratic lawmakers have been condemning President Trump for “inspiring” such attacks with what they claim to be “racist” rhetoric.

Buttigieg, however, believes the issues surrounding race and gun violence in our country today have been boiling for years — long before Trump took office.

“I think a president like this one is not even possible, unless something is already deeply wrong in our country,” he said Thursday night. “And I think the story — the story in my region, and the story for my generation — reflects those deeper problems growing up in an era of endless war and school shootings.”

Buttigieg, 37, hopes to bring his “vision” of a more unified America to the White House if elected in 2020.

“Among many issues we must face, tackling these challenges means confronting the challenge of systemic racism,” Buttigieg said. “That is one of the most destructive forces in America — and always has been.

“As too many know too intimately, to be black in America right now is still to be in a different country,” the presidential candidate continued. “When a patient goes into a hospital and her report of pain is less likely to be believed, when a job application goes out and the same application is less likely to get a call back depending on the name on the application … We also learned the hard way that you cannot take a racist policy and replace it with a neutral one and expect things to get better on their own. Many of these inequities in our society were put in place intentionally, which means it’s going to take intention to dismantle.”

Buttigieg reportedly has had trouble gaining support from the black community — with one poll from CNN having him at zero percent among black voters nationally. Last month he unveiled his “Douglass Plan,” which was named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass and is supposed to “help heal our racial divides with bold policies that match the scale of the crises we face today.”

“Intended to be as ambitious as the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe, but this time investing in America,” Buttigieg said Thursday. He listed a number of ideas he had, including “cutting incarceration by 50 percent with no increase in crime.”

“These are just a few pieces of the Douglass Plan, which I contend is the most comprehensive yet offered in 2020 to tackle these issues and this will be a priority for my White House,” Buttigieg said. “I hope to have children one day and I hope to be able to explain to them what we did in this moment we are living in right now, and I hope that they’ll be puzzled that some of these conditions we’re living with — and perhaps, too readily accepting — were there in the first place.”