So Many Reasons Bloomberg Is Wrong For Us…

THE INTERESTS OF WHITE LIBERALS AND BLACKS ARE NOT THE SAME. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG MAY BE RIGHT FOR WHITE LIBERALS, NOT FOR BLACK AMERICANS. 

Democrats should be wary of embrac­ing can­di­dates like Democrat turned Republican, turned Independent, now Democrat again Michael Bloomberg.
Sure there is an urgent desire to see the back of Donald Trump, that is a fore­gone con­clu­sion. Nevertheless, the likes of Michael Bloomberg is cer­tain­ly not what the coun­try needs at this cru­cial time, and is most cer­tain­ly not what the Africa-American com­mu­ni­ty needs.
Black Democratic vot­ers can ill afford to allow their dis­gust for Donald Trump to cloud their visions and allow for the crit­i­cal mis­take of nom­i­nat­ing a can­di­date, the likes of Michael Bloomberg.

Bloomberg’s Mea Culpa Unadulterated B*******

The very fact that Michael Bloomberg was a Democrat, then changed to Republican, then changed to Independent and has now sup­pos­ed­ly changed back to being a Democrat is proof enough that he has no core con­vic­tion, but that he is an oppor­tunis­tic leech who will latch onto any­thing from which he can derive a ben­e­fit.
After Barack Obama ascend­ed to the Presidency, all and sundry on the Republican side thought they could also be pres­i­dent, (you know, if the black guy can become pres­i­dent, then it can’t be that hard right)?
Wrong.…. in my Trumpiest voice.
Well in a way they may have been right to some degree, we end­ed up with Donald Trump.
And now the shoe is on the oth­er foot, now Democrats, Socialists, Turncoats, and every bil­lion­aire run­ning believe that Trump is a goof­ball and a clown, so it can’t be too dif­fi­cult to beat him.
Wroooong!!!!!
As we have seen this cycle, many have lined up hop­ing to be the Democrat nom­i­nee, as Republicans and oth­er nut-jobs did in 2016. As in 2016, so too will they all leav­ing one. Let us hope for the sake of san­i­ty that the Democratic nom­i­nee will not be Michael Bloomberg.
The real per­ver­sion in my esti­ma­tion is not the plu­ral­i­ty of the can­di­dates who have lined up seek­ing the Democratic nom­i­na­tion. It is the fact that bil­lion­aire Michael Bloomberg believes that he can enter the race at his choos­ing and just dump mil­lions of dol­lars into adver­tis­ing and vot­ers will sim­ply bow down and anoint him the sav­ior of the Democratic par­ty, and the heir appar­ent to suc­ceed Donald Trump.
For the record, I have no prob­lem with peo­ple of means using their mon­ey to seek office. Tom Steyer did not just decide that he had a right to the nom­i­na­tion at the last moment. His has been a pro­tract­ed cam­paign, we can argue on the merits.

In an arti­cle, I wrote [in the link above] I talked about the affron­tery of Bloomberg attend­ing ser­vices at A R Bernard’s Christian Cultural Center(CCC), in Flatlands Brooklyn a few Sundays ago, and offer­ing up a nau­se­at­ing­ly trans­par­ent mea cul­pa to Bernard’s con­gre­ga­tion, but which was aimed at the wider black com­mu­ni­ty.
Bloomberg’s con­tin­u­a­tion of the Rudolph Guiliani stop and frisk pol­i­cy as Mayor of New York City, caused untold agony, pain, and suf­fer­ing to black and brown New York city res­i­dents, as a result of NYPD abuse of that process.
Michael Bloomberg sup­port­ed stop and frisk even after the NYPD had scaled back the pol­i­cy on its own, and even after he was long out of office.
Now that Michael Bloomberg wants to be pres­i­dent he is all of a sud­den sor­ry?
Bloomberg’s mea cul­pa on this issue, was one more iter­a­tion of his will­ing­ness to do and say any­thing as long as he can derive a ben­e­fit.
But my dis­gust was not sole­ly for Bloomberg on that Sunday morn­ing when he was allowed to take the stage at CCC, in fact, he was not the pri­ma­ry tar­get of my ire. The idea that any leader of a church, large or small, much less one which boasts a con­gre­ga­tion of forty thou­sand, would allow a Michael Bloomberg to deceive his flock, is a grave dis­ser­vice not just to the con­gre­ga­tion but ulti­mate­ly to the body of Christ. 

We are well aware that politi­cians will lit­er­al­ly say any­thing to get elect­ed. Nevertheless, African-American vot­ers have to be high­ly cog­nizant of the fact that the past is pro­logue when they decide to cast their vote for a can­di­date.
I have a tremen­dous degree of mis­trust for peo­ple who say they have evolved ‘on the issue of race for exam­ple’ I believe that every one of us was born with the abil­i­ty to dif­fer­en­ti­ate between wrong and right. We have that innate [built-in], which tells us whether or not the posi­tion we are tak­ing on any giv­en issue, is the cor­rect one. Christians call it the Holy Spirit, oth­ers call it a con­science.
Michael Bloomberg was unmoved by the cries of hun­dreds of thou­sands of black and brown peo­ple who felt the full brunt of [racial­ly tar­get­ed polic­ing] on his watch.
His sum­ma­ry dis­missal of the data, even after he left office, expos­es a cyn­i­cal bil­lion­aire tech­no­crat who will do what­ev­er serves his per­son­al ends.
How does he dif­fer from Donald Trump?

It is that cyn­i­cal dis­re­gard for respect and the human­i­ty of oth­ers which caused Michael Bloomberg to say the fol­low­ing about New Jersey junior US Senator who hap­pens to be African-American.

“Cory Booker endorsed me a num­ber of times, and I endorsed Cory Booker a num­ber of times,” Bloomberg said. “He’s very well-spo­ken. He’s got some good ideas. It would be bet­ter the more diverse any group is, but the pub­lic is out there pick­ing and choos­ing, and nar­row­ing down this field.”

There is a very good argu­ment to be made about Corey Booker as a legit­i­mate African-American can­di­date for pres­i­dent. That he who would endorse Michael Bloomberg, or would part­ner with the bul­ly­ing for­mer Republican Governor of his state, (Chris Christie), on some issue, cre­ates enough space to debate the pros and cons of his pro­gres­sive bona fides, or whether they even exist­ed before he decid­ed to run for the Democratic nom­i­na­tion.
But that is a ques­tion for debate between cen­trists and pro­gres­sive Democrats.
The fact that in 2019 a can­di­date for pres­i­dent would refer to an African-American, US Senator as, “very well-spo­ken”, much less a supreme­ly edu­cat­ed US Senator, demon­strates that on the crit­i­cal issues which affect black peo­ple, Michael Bloomberg is com­plete­ly dis­in­ter­est­ed.
(Corey Booker attend­ed Stanford University, where he received a BA in 1991 and then a mas­ter’s degree a year lat­er. He stud­ied abroad at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, before attend­ing Yale Law School). [w]
Bloomberg grew up in Medford, Massachusetts and attend­ed Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. [w]

Michael Bloomberg is being tout­ed at some lev­els on a dai­ly basis, par­tic­u­lar­ly by white lib­er­als on pub­lic radio in the New England area as the best hope for Democrats.
What is good for white lib­er­als in New England is not good for Black peo­ple suf­fer­ing under the yoke of police oppres­sion in America’s cities and towns.
Michael Bloomberg may have been good for white lib­er­als in New York City, but just ask the aver­age black and brown New Yorker, and they will tell you of a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent reality.

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