Posted on 02/18/2020 8:50:33 AM PST by RummyChick
Michael Bloomberg is again under fire for his problematic comments on race, with a resurfaced video showing the 2020 Presidential hopeful claiming that many young black and Latino men 'don't know how to behave in the workforce'.
The billionaire, 78, made the assertion during a 2011 interview with PBS, which is now going viral amid outrage over Bloomberg's other controversial remarks.
In the 2011 interview - conducted while he was serving a third term as New York City Mayor - Bloomberg attempted to gain support for a new initiative to enhance employment opportunities for young men.
He told interviewer Jeffrey Brown: 'There's this enormous cohort of black and Latino males, age, let's say, 16 to 25, that don't have jobs, don't have any prospects, don't know how to find jobs, don't know what their skill sets are, [and] don't know how to behave in the workplace where they have to work collaboratively and collectively'.
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Little Mike has had a couple really good days.
Blacks, Latinos, farmers, teachers, & old people all insulted.
This asshole is worse than Gropin Joe.
I think people are sick of the constant lies from all politicians about this subject, and these “bombshells” may very well help Bloomberg.
annnnnd there goes the black and hispanic vote.
I presume Mike had no idea how the long knives would be out for him, because soon enough, all that money he’s spent might as well have been flushed down the toilet.
In any event, take heart, Mike, that you’re helping Trump’s economy to flourish even more! :^)
It’s all ok, cause he’s a democrat now.
Come on Mike, sport that blackface and really join the club!
Like Trump, he is not a career politician, so he has said some of these things in straightforward, sometimes clumsy ways that may have been ok at the time but that will look bad in print today, especially when taken out of context.
In recent decades, conservatives have sought more polished, nuanced ways of saying the same things without kicking the anthill, but since the left has now gone hyperwoke, with hair trigger rage monkeys digging into the most innocuous true statements to find offence, a lot of us no longer see much utility in trying to be subtle and nuanced.
It's time for the gloves to come off. There is no way I'd vote for Mike Bloomberg, but I'm not going to criticize him for having committed truth from time to time in his long career.
I am certain that Bloomberg has ‘evolved’ since 2011. /sarc
“It’s time for the gloves to come off. There is no way I’d vote for Mike Bloomberg, but I’m not going to criticize him for having committed truth from time to time in his long career.”
He’s in the wrong party to say truthful things that aren’t PC.
Quite frankly, there's nothing wrong with this statement. It's true.
He could have been more diplomatic and included all 16-25 year old, "disadvantaged" people that fit this description: people of all colors, male & female.
Just more gotcha politics.
With whom? Are you seriously saying some Trump supporters will switch to Bloomie because he says things that actually ARE racist?
Not a chance. Especially in combination with the other insulting and demeaning remarks he’s made, and they’ve only scratched the surface.
But they’re just words, things you say to fill time in speeches. None of them matter, you just buy the election and then do whatever you want to do. Because Americans are too dumb to realize that’s what’s going on?
At work or in public.
This santimonious jerk thinks he’s fulfilling a modern version of “the white man’s burden”. As such he’s inherently racist, a man who think blacks are dangerous and less capable and need to be reigned in, tamed, and trained to behave. Hispanics too. But he thinks he’s being charitable helping what he considered to be lesser beings so he has no shame or sense of just how retrograde a person he is.
I got news for you, I’m white and I work alone but I doubt I’d last a week in the girly workplaces I pass thru occasionally. These guys are probably just guys.
Is he wrong...?
Racism will sink him... oh wait.
This isn’t just a case of blacks and latinos being merely insufficiently PC to function in a modern corporate environment. This is them behaving in wildly inappropriate ways, and/or not grasping even the most basic tenets of corporate (or in some cases, civilized) behavior. Go read “Confessions of a Public Defender” for more specifics.
The amusing thing is that it will be hard for the Liberal Elitists to attack President Trump for a "improper" remark he may have made back in the 1990s while simultaneously defending Bloomberg for the "improper" remark he made while Obama was president.
People see the double standard. They may not have seen it 4 years ago, but they see it now. One of the favor tactics of "Why-I-hate-Donald-Trump" really can't be used if Bloomberg is considered a viable candidate.
Go read “Confessions of a Public Defender” for more specifics.
Will looking at this depress a normal person?
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