Washington (CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Thursday said "systemic racism" in the US is a "white problem" in the wake of two mass shootings in the US last weekend -- one of which involved a white supremacist suspect.

Speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Miami, Buttigieg said, "We are by no means even halfway done dealing with systemic racism in this country. And I hope over the course of this campaign, you will see how I speak about these issues -- not only with mostly black audiences, but with mostly white audiences."

"Because if there's anything we've learned in the last few days, systemic racism is a white problem," he said.

"I think a President like this one is not even possible, unless something is already deeply wrong in our country. 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," he said.

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