{"id":176943,"date":"2020-02-12T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/12\/bloomberg-should-just-drop-the-n-word-and-be-done-with-it\/"},"modified":"2020-02-12T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T02:39:00","slug":"bloomberg-should-just-drop-the-n-word-and-be-done-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/12\/bloomberg-should-just-drop-the-n-word-and-be-done-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Should Just Drop the N-Word and Be Done with It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\ufffd\ufffd New Podcast! “Episode 807 | Bloomberg’s Racist, Classist Past | What Happened To Pete? | Moderates for Bernie” on @Spreaker<\/a> #biden_ad<\/a> #bloomberg<\/a> #notmeus<\/a> #wallstreetpete<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/FSNJj87h1s<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2014 Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) February 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because the NY Times NEVER<\/b> Links to the folks who break the stories<\/i><\/div>\n

Michal Bloomberg has now disavowed the stop and frisk policies that he evangelized for when he was Mayor of New York.<\/p>\n

I am inclined to believe that his change of heart was not sincere, particularly since we now have him tape saying that most of the crime in a city comes from young black men<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unbelievably racist, though still better than Pete Buttigieg:<\/p>\n

A recording of Michael R. Bloomberg in 2015 offering an unflinching defense of stop-and-frisk policing circulated widely on social media Tuesday, signaling that the former New York City mayor is about to face more intensive scrutiny as he rises in the polls as a Democratic presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

While Mr. Bloomberg apologized for his administration\u2019s law-enforcement tactics in November just before he entered the race, he had previously spent years insisting that the policy was justified and effective, showing no indication that he had developed serious misgivings about stop and frisk. The policing tactic was used disproportionately against black and Latino people across New York City for years.<\/p>\n

He offered a particularly blunt defense at the Aspen Institute in 2015: The Aspen Times reported<\/a> then that Mr. Bloomberg said that crimes were committed overwhelmingly by young, male minorities, and that it made sense to deploy police in minority neighborhoods to \u201cthrow them up against the wall and frisk them\u201d as a deterrent against carrying firearms.<\/p>\n

An audio clip of those comments was posted on Twitter Monday by Benjamin Dixon, a progressive podcaster, who highlighted it with the hashtag #BloombergIsARacist.<\/p>\n

\u201cNinety-five percent of your murders \u2014 murderers and murder victims \u2014 fit one M.O.,\u201d Mr. Bloomberg said in the recording. \u201cYou can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That\u2019s true in New York, that\u2019s true in virtually every city.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the Democratic Party Presidential nominee is a racist, it will depress the minority vote at all levels. <\/p>\n

Any political official who thinks that the Democrats can win the Presidency and pick up seats when the top of the ticket is a racist needs to change his career to the food service industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ufffd\ufffd New Podcast! “Episode 807 | Bloomberg’s Racist, Classist Past | What Happened To Pete? | Moderates for Bernie” on @Spreaker #biden_ad #bloomberg #notmeus #wallstreetpete https:\/\/t.co\/FSNJj87h1s \u2014 Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) February 10, 2020 Because the NY Times NEVER Links to the folks who break the stories Michal Bloomberg has now disavowed the stop and frisk …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,389,405,398],"class_list":["post-176943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-history","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}