Black Voters Turn Their Backs on Mike Bloomberg During Church Service

Breitbart ^ | 1 Mar 2020 | Kyle Morris

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Congregants of a historically black church in Selma, Alabama, turned their backs on Democrat presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg on Sunday as he addressed them.

The protest, which remained silent and peaceful, took place as Bloomberg was giving a speech on the 55th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a day when police attacked black citizens during a civil rights march in the town.

Several images shared to social media on Sunday showed both black and white voters standing with their backs turned to Bloomberg in Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church.

Multiple attendees at #BloodySunday service are turning their backs on @MikeBloomberg as he delivers his remarks and discusses his plans to defend voting rights and address the racial wealth gap. pic.twitter.com/9BzI6n5zSk

— Errin Haines (@emarvelous) March 1, 2020

According to those who attended the event, former Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams sat behind Bloomberg during his speech.

Some people are standing in Brown chapel with their back turned on Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/JmqNvkZvMu

— Sam Levine (@srl) March 1, 2020

Bloomberg, a former mayor of New York City, has had a history of questionable comments surrounding America’s black community.

In 2011, during the launch of his multimillion-dollar Young Men’s Initiative, Bloomberg claimed black and Latino men “don’t know how to behave in the workplace.”

During Bloomberg’s tenure as New York City mayor, nearly five million individuals, primarily young men of color, were stop-and-frisked.

Bloomberg’s resurfaced comments on stop-and-frisk came during a 2015 speech to the Aspen Institute, where he pushed the idea of cities taking the initiative on instituting and enforcing the gun bans.

[caww]

Somebody paid for it that’s for sure....I wouldn’t put it past Oama to be floating some of his millions around certain places.

[kearnyirish2]

Mini Mike certainly earned their scorn; I’m shocked at how many FReepers will defend the blatantly unconstitutional “stop and frisk” (because they weren’t targeted).

To say nothing of Mini Mike’s comments; he is a wannabe dictator, nothing less...

[BenLurkin]

“You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are getting killed.”
- Michael Bloomberg 2015
speech to the Aspen Institute

[irishjuggler]

Bloomberg in his hubris thought that his erstwhile unvarnished opinions on crime prevention, redlining, etc. would be irrelevant because (a) they were basically truthful and (b) he was willing to spend in an unprecedented way. Reality, however, is now knocking him on his a$$.

[Emmett McCarthy]

I bet the preacher WAS paid actually. The people didn’t get any of it, though.

[shanover]

...but evidently they love Joe Biden. My god,half the country is insane.

[PGalt]

Money can’t buy me love, little mikey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxha1IUsSPI

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It's funny because Bloomberg actually saved black lives, by continuing and improving on Rudy's policies. Instead of apologizing, he should have turned the argument around, which may have even boosted his poll numbers among white middle-class voters.

But he fell into identity politics and now Trump is making him pay by using Alinsky's Rules against him.

[StAnDeliver]

If this isn't a finalist for AP photo of the year. Sam Levine at The Guardian caught this by dumb luck, but the framing was incomparable.

Look at the other photographer between the pews in some kind of shock; look at the stoicism (and perhaps respect) by the 2 Whoopies behind the stans; and then the stans themselves, the young ratchet signaling 'we ain't havin you, doomberg.', but most poignant, the framing of mini-Doomberg barely apparent outside the young man's elbow.

Hang on while I clear my throat.

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[matt1234]

I wonder how Mike is enjoying his time in the rat party.

[PGalt]

HOORAY Americans. Is that OK under the GOVERNMENT’S FREE SPEECH EDICTS? How about the likeness of his severed bloody head for comedic relief?

[tflabo]

I thought LIEberals are for separation of church and state?

[CharleysPride]

Excellent point, friend

[libstripper]

Bloomie's whole strategy is for the Democrats to have a contested convention and to get the nomination by screwing Bernie out of it, followed by Bloomie buying it. His biggest problem is he just can't appeal to the Afro-American voters, as shown by this spectacle, something that might not even happen to DJT, Jr., since anything he might say would be in good faith. Now the Demoncrat nomenclatura is faced with the horrible problem of Bloomie's hopeless inability to appeal to the most vital part of their coalition, meaning Bloomie's likely to be disqualified, leaving them to Sleepy Ol' Joe or Bernie. Nevertheless, they'll screw Bernie out of the nomination, leaving the Berners to try to burn Milwaukee down. Jeff Bezos must be rolling on the floor in greedy anticipation of what this will do for Amazon's popcorn sales.

[bigbob]

Very nice! But if they weren’t in the front row he probably couldn’t see them.

[Theodore R.]

They gave him the Biden treatment!

[Popman]

...>now Trump is making him pay by using Alinsky's Rules against him.

Are you saying Trump made these black people turn their backs on Doomberg?

[JennysCool]

I wonder if Mike is finally understanding that he is hated by all Americans, regardless of race, creed or color.

[Bullish]

Elitist snob asshat Bloomberg has no business trying to talk to regular people anyway. Let him go address his buddies in the deep swamp.

[GAGOP]

Maybe the church did invite him. However, that doesn’t mean the members had to approve of him being there. After all, the article just said they were silent and turned their backs to him. Money doesn’t make the man.