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Leaked Audio of Mike Bloomberg explaing his racist stop and frisk policy “you can just Xerox description's of male, minorities 16-25 to police"
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"See, black and brown people commit all the crime, because they're the only ones we arrest!".
This is textbook institutional racism. It's as if someone wanted to create a simulation to demonstrate precisely what it is to the layperson.
This is textbook institutional racism. It's as if someone wanted to create a simulation to demonstrate precisely what it is to the layperson.
We need to start our own political party with our interests in mind. White America gives no fucks about us even white liberals don't fucking care. Look at them stan for Pete a candidate with little to no black support and pour money into his campaign. It's time to resurrect groups like the Rainbow Coaltion and the Poor Peoples Campaign.
Yup. It's just not set up for it. The moment a party fractures, the other takes over. The power of solidarity in a FPTP dominion.
The dude responsible for implementing a clearly racist policy also happened to make racist remarks regarding that policy. I am shocked! Absolutely shocked!
Like literally no one should be surprised here. At least this makes it very clear so we no longer have to deal with apologists. I hope this dudes chances of winning are nonexistent after this. Entitled fucking billionaire asshole is running for president just because he can and he feels like he deserves it. He is helping re-elect Trump. Should have ran as a Republican and challenged Trump. That's where he clearly belongs.
Like literally no one should be surprised here. At least this makes it very clear so we no longer have to deal with apologists. I hope this dudes chances of winning are nonexistent after this. Entitled fucking billionaire asshole is running for president just because he can and he feels like he deserves it. He is helping re-elect Trump. Should have ran as a Republican and challenged Trump. That's where he clearly belongs.
People will warning that what's going to happen. Is that even if we get rid of trump, there's always going to be someone worse and probably smarter than Trump that know how to work the system. If this guy gets in office you now have a Republican in Democratic sheep clothing. Same with Biden, and I don't even like him. The only safe choice now, it's either Warren or Bernie. The popular vote will vote for Bernie before Warren.
La Raza Unida Party was up and running in Texas in 60's and 70's to give Mexican-Americans a voice in state politics. They organized, registered voters and ran their own gubernatorial candidatediate. They lost the governors race but picked up 15 seats along the Texas border area. I'd say it's possible just not easy. We can't keep waiting for white America to sort their shit out while our people continue to suffer.
Yo seriously, the final two weeks of coverage of the 2016 election already taught me that.
What are you basing this on? Just a gut feeling? I would like to see polls conducted in 2020 on this matter.
anyway, Bloomberg is backtracking on this because he doesn't want to fuck his chances with Black dem voters in the primary which is a voting block that's critical to winning the nominations. Losing the black vote will absolutely torpedo a candidacy.
The fact he was elected mayor of NYC, of all cities, 3 times? It took off during his time as mayor and he was in support of it the entire time and he still got voted back in multiple times.
I'd love to see some polls too though.
I would say Bloomberg's money and network were the reason he was elected 3 times (in fact he quite literally bought his 3rd term here) more so than people desire to see black teenagers get their skulls cracked indiscriminately. and he served his last term as mayor in 2013 before Black Lives Matter and before other criminal justice movements shifted public consciousness on policing and the prison industrial complex.
There are mountains of studies about this. The only people that liked stop and frisk was the NYPD, on top of it being proven time and time again a waste of resources and horribly inefficient
man, some of those "i like mike" responses have to be bots. what kind of bot farms y'all think he is using?
LOL this is a big-time lie. Dude was giving tours as of 2018 defending the policy and whats on the tape doesn't paint the story of a man who merely inherited a policy
From Sept. 2016:Preview of Trump vs. Bloomberg
Trump supports stop-and-frisk despite policy's widespread condemnation
Donald Trump’s support of 'stop-and-frisk' is his solution to crime, but critics say it did little to reduce crime but a lot to exacerbate tensions.
www.nbcnews.com
"Rather than address my comments I will instead remind you that I am currently awesome, and only regret that I was not awesome sooner."
Mike Bloombergs racism is blamed on Bernie, are we still saying there is no bias?
How dare the moderators warn this poster for this post? Who even thought to report this? Come out here and explain yourself. I'm actually angry. Minorities definitely have the right to not vote for Mike Bloomberg despite pressure from liberals, full fucking stop, and it's not "derailment" to say so in a thread with receipts on why. Fuck that.
Sorry, but if this guy somehow gets the nomination, I'm staying home. I refuse between either him or Trump.
Lol, he's really going for the "I have black friends" defense? What a fucking asshole.
Willing to bet money that those 20 individuals had a nice fat deposit in their bank accounts.
Zvonimir Bodan is always telling the truth in these threads. One of the best posters on this forum.
I think people who would stay home because they don't want to vote for Biden/Buttigieg are despicable. But honestly this I kinda get.
I'd still vote for Bloomberg though, mainly because I'm sick of seeing Trump's fucking disgusting face on TV.
So we can have a more competent white supremacist president instead? Idk man...
Well there is a gap between standard racist and outright white supremacist. I'd imagine at least half the country is about as racist as Bloomberg
Not that this is something we should have to be thinking about when electing a damn President of the United States
Now I kinda wish to see Bloomberg on the debate stage and see every candidate dunk on him over this.
Oh wow, they found 20 black people that know him without being arrested by him?
Give those aides a raise!
The gap isn't really that big if you're black. Picking between a person who is racist outloud versus one who puts on airs and a veneer of civility but it's racist on policy hurts us all the same, see: America's entire existence for more information.
And really the thing people need to really start to learn is that these policies don't start and stop with us, they literally trickle down to white America too so it's always weird that people are okay with it, and I'd argue it ends up hitting white America harder then it finally does hit them.
So really even if people are fine with how black Americans get treated and affected by policy they should still be against it for their own sake
Trump is a dumbass, but Bloomberg is more terrifying because he will have an actual agenda if he managed to get in.
In the end, we all lose.
You implied the disconnect for their reasoning rather succinctly: they believe bigotry targeted towards black individuals largely won't affect them and, at best, don't care, or worse, actively cheer for it.
How else can you explain someone being willing to stomach Buttigieg despite him having the same issues regarding race?
My test is always "will X stop family separation and child abuse at the border?" and Mike is at least a probably
with all due respect and empathy to those kids, if Bloomberg half asses climate change we're *all* gonna die.