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Bloomberg apologizes after critics say his calling Booker 'well spoken' was racist
The Hill ^ | 12 06 2019 | Owen Daugherty

Posted on 12/06/2019 7:53:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized Friday after calling fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) “well spoken," a phrase which critics have said has racist undertones.

While discussing his 2020 competitors with CBS’s Gayle King in an interview that aired Friday morning, Bloomberg said, “Cory Booker endorsed me a number of times, and I endorsed Cory Booker a number of times. He’s very well spoken, he’s got some good ideas.”

Bloomberg added that in regards to the candidate pool, “it would be better the more diverse any group is, but the public is out there picking and choosing and narrowing down this field.”

Many criticized Bloomberg’s remark towards Booker as a racist slight commenting on the candidate’s intelligence.

Booker said he was “taken aback” by Bloomberg’s comment.

“It’s sort of stunning at times that we are still revisiting these sort of tired tropes or the language we have out there that I don’t think folks understand,” Booker said in a radio interview that he shared on Twitter. “The fact that they don’t understand is problematic.”

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KEYWORDS: bloomberg; booker; dp0622meaboutmememe; racist
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Maybe he should have said Booker was 'articulate'.
1 posted on 12/06/2019 7:53:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

There is nothing more racist than a white liberal.


2 posted on 12/06/2019 7:55:01 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe Bloomberg should have just called Booker an incompetent moron. You may as well not spare the rod these days if giving someone a compliment earns you a punishment.


3 posted on 12/06/2019 7:55:23 PM PST by Crucial
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe Mrs. Biden should say that a generation ago, he’d be getting us coffee. That should be good for the nomination.


4 posted on 12/06/2019 7:55:31 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: yesthatjallen

Someone once called me “Well spoken.”

I took it as a compliment.


5 posted on 12/06/2019 7:56:05 PM PST by HIDEK6 ( God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: yesthatjallen

And “clean.”


6 posted on 12/06/2019 7:56:21 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: yesthatjallen

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

Sen. Joe Biden


7 posted on 12/06/2019 7:56:24 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: yesthatjallen

He’s clean and ticlet.


8 posted on 12/06/2019 7:56:33 PM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, Booker is NOT well spoken, IMHO. See...I’m manifestly not racist.


9 posted on 12/06/2019 7:56:59 PM PST by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: HIDEK6

Ive long cringed when white people call black people articulate.


10 posted on 12/06/2019 7:57:17 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Cis and Trans people do not exist because Gender Identity is quackery.)
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To: Eddie01

NOTHING!!!

I’ve worked with them in management and they Disliked blacks, hispanics and asians.

Gee, the only manager that gave those groups a fair shake and treated them like anybody else was me, a conservative.

It actually did make some of them think twice at the time about their dem allegiance

Don’t think it switched a vote in the end though.


11 posted on 12/06/2019 7:57:21 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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Well, Booker is NOT well spoken, IMHO. See...I’m manifestly not racist.
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But he does have a clean beard!


12 posted on 12/06/2019 7:58:42 PM PST by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: yesthatjallen

Guess Bloomberg thinks Booker is a “credit to his race”.


13 posted on 12/06/2019 7:59:02 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: yesthatjallen

Trump should start calling Bloomberg “well spoken.”


14 posted on 12/06/2019 8:00:04 PM PST by PGR88
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To: yesthatjallen

when WILL nanny APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A billionaire AND SEND IT IN TO THE Treasury?


15 posted on 12/06/2019 8:00:06 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: yesthatjallen

For “critics” with political correctness, there is nothing you can say that does not offend someone. Hey Bloombag, just tell them to F off, unfortunately you are not that smart being a radical RAT. When everything you say offends someone, the politically correct speech police own and control you, which is what this crap was intended to do.


16 posted on 12/06/2019 8:01:21 PM PST by Fungi
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To: yesthatjallen

Instead of apologizing people on the left and right should respond to politically correct “critics” by telling them to F*ck off.


17 posted on 12/06/2019 8:02:03 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Slavery, the Confederacy, the KKK, and Segregation were all supported by the DemocRAT party.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Only a complete idiot would apologize for referring to another person as “well spoken.”


18 posted on 12/06/2019 8:02:16 PM PST by A strike ( Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: yesthatjallen
Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.


19 posted on 12/06/2019 8:03:13 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: yesthatjallen; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
Should have said he looks like Spartacus. Or the Exterminator.


20 posted on 12/06/2019 8:03:35 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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