YOU MUST NEVER Vote for Bloomberg
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YOU MUST NEVER Vote for Bloomberg
“…..His expansion of the notoriously racist STOP & FRISK program is a complete and nonnegotiable deal breaker….”
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“…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 City mayor Michael Bloomberg inched closer to declaring a run for the Democratic nomination for president. According to The New York Times, his advisers say he hasn’t made up his mind yet. But I have.
Let me plant the stake now: No black person — or Hispanic person or ally of people of color — should ever even consider 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. 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. This system of terror exploded under Bloomberg, with his full advocacy and support.
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Not only that, but those who were stopped had their names entered into a comprehensive police database, even if they were never accused of committing a crime. As Donna Lieberman, then the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in 2010, the database became a place “where millions of completely innocent, predominantly black and Latinos have been turned into permanent police suspects.”
The state outlawed the keeping of these electronic records on the innocent, over the strong objections of Bloomberg and his police chief. Bloomberg used the fear factor to keep white New Yorkers in his corner. He insisted that stop-and-frisk was keeping them safe and that without it crime would soar. And his ruse worked. In eight separate surveys from 2012 to 2013, pollsters at Quinnipiac University asked New Yorkers if they approved of stop-and-frisk. Every single time, a majority of white New Yorkers said they approved……”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/opinion/michael-bloomberg.html
Read my column, “You Must Never Vote For Bloomberg,” and let me know what you think. https://t.co/gDoTMxnK7I
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) November 11, 2019
Medicare For All | The Gold Standard Health Care Plan
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Oh boy, do I ever agree with you on that!
‘Mike ‘Stop n’ Frisk‘ Bloomberg’…………thats his name!!!
I know its tearing a page out from Trumpf’s playbook who gives all his opponents insult nicknames. I have to say, those names really do stick! And this is one name we really need to stick for Mikey…….
Medicare For All | The Gold Standard Health Care Plan
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One big fecken happy family of rich weasels………….
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