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 CBSs 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. Hes very well spoken, hes 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 Bloombergs remark towards Booker as a racist slight commenting on the candidates intelligence.
Booker said he was taken aback by Bloombergs comment.
Its sort of stunning at times that we are still revisiting these sort of tired tropes or the language we have out there that I dont think folks understand, Booker said in a radio interview that he shared on Twitter. The fact that they dont understand is problematic.
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There is nothing more racist than a white liberal.
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.
Maybe Mrs. Biden should say that a generation ago, he’d be getting us coffee. That should be good for the nomination.
Someone once called me Well spoken.
I took it as a compliment.
And clean.
“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
He’s clean and ticlet.
Well, Booker is NOT well spoken, IMHO. See...Im manifestly not racist.
Ive long cringed when white people call black people articulate.
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.
Well, Booker is NOT well spoken, IMHO. See...Im manifestly not racist.
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But he does have a clean beard!
Guess Bloomberg thinks Booker is a “credit to his race”.
Trump should start calling Bloomberg “well spoken.”
when WILL nanny APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A billionaire AND SEND IT IN TO THE Treasury?
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.
Instead of apologizing people on the left and right should respond to politically correct “critics” by telling them to F*ck off.
Only a complete idiot would apologize for referring to another person as “well spoken.”
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