{"id":177252,"date":"2019-11-12T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/12\/good-point-3\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T00:26:00","slug":"good-point-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/12\/good-point-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Point"},"content":{"rendered":"
Over at the Gray Lady, Charles Blow makes a trenchant point about Mike Bloomberg, that he ran the most racist New York City mayor’s office in modern memory<\/a>:<\/div>\n

With his filing of paperwork on Friday<\/a> to put his name on the ballot for the Democratic primary in Alabama, the billionaire businessman and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg inched closer to declaring a run for the Democratic nomination for president.<\/p>\n

According to The New York Times, his advisers say he hasn\u2019t made up his mind yet. But I have.<\/p>\n

Let me plant the stake now: No black person \u2014 or Hispanic person or ally of people of color \u2014 should ever even consider<\/i> voting for Michael Bloomberg in the primary. His expansion of the notoriously racist stop-and-frisk program in New York, which swept up millions of innocent New Yorkers, primarily young black and Hispanic men, is a complete and nonnegotiable deal killer.<\/p>\n

Stop-and-frisk, pushed as a way to get guns and other contraband off the streets, became nothing short of a massive, enduring, city-sanctioned system of racial terror.<\/p>\n

This system of terror exploded under Bloomberg, with his full advocacy and support.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

A federal judge ruled in 2013 that New York\u2019s stop-and-frisk tactics violated the constitutional rights of racial minorities, calling it a \u201cpolicy of indirect racial profiling.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Yet, a little over a month before that ruling, Bloomberg said on a radio show, \u201cI think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.\u201d As USA Today<\/a> pointed out at the time: \u201cAbout 5 million stops have been made during the past decade. Eighty-seven percent of those stopped in the last two years were black or Hispanic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only has Bloomberg failed to express any regret for what he did, he has continued<\/a> to defend it.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>BAM!<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

It is worth noting that there is virtually no difference between Bloomberg cheerleading stop-and-frisk and Donald Trump musing during the last election<\/a> about somehow instituting the program nationwide. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not just that Mikey is a billionaire intent on preserving his privilege. It is that he is a bad man, and either profoundly racist, or a racist for crass and politically opportunistic reasons, which is worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at the Gray Lady, Charles Blow makes a trenchant point about Mike Bloomberg, that he ran the most racist New York City mayor’s office in modern memory: With his filing of paperwork on Friday to put his name on the ballot for the Democratic primary in Alabama, the billionaire businessman and former New York …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,464,405,398,403],"class_list":["post-177252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-good-writing","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-racism","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177252"}],"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=177252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}