{"id":177232,"date":"2019-11-17T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/17\/in-the-annals-of-least-sincere-apologies\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T01:46:00","slug":"in-the-annals-of-least-sincere-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/17\/in-the-annals-of-least-sincere-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Annals of Least Sincere Apologies\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s apology for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/17\/us\/politics\/michael-bloomberg-speech.html\">his aggressive support for stop and frisk of black and Hispanic men in New York<\/a> is arguably the least sincere apology that I have heard this year:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ahead of a potential Democratic presidential run, former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York on Sunday reversed his longstanding support of the aggressive \u201cstop-and-frisk\u201d policing strategy that he pursued for a decade and that led to the disproportionate stopping of black and Latino people across the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was wrong,\u201d Mr. Bloomberg declared. \u201cAnd I am sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The speech, Mr. Bloomberg\u2019s first since he re-emerged as a possible presidential candidate, was a remarkable concession by a 77-year-old billionaire not known for self-doubt: that a pillar of his 12-year mayoralty was a mistake that he now regrets. It was also, in some ways, a last word on an era of aggressive policing in New York City that began a generation ago under former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani \u2014 though the fallout on neighborhoods is still felt to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the congregation at the Christian Cultural Center, a black megachurch in Brooklyn, Mr. Bloomberg delivered his apology in the heart of one of the communities most affected by his policing policies, and at a location that nodded to the fact that should he decide to run for president, African-American voters would be a crucial Democratic constituency that he would need to win over.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, how stupid does Bloomberg think that the average Democratic primary voter, of any skin color, is?<\/p>\n<p>This is not a heartfelt apology, this is a transparent ploy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s apology for his aggressive support for stop and frisk of black and Hispanic men in New York is arguably the least sincere apology that I have heard this year: Ahead of a potential Democratic presidential run, former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York on Sunday reversed his longstanding support of the aggressive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,387,374,405,398],"class_list":["post-177232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177232"}],"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=177232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}