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pnwmom

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12. Those statements from the past were in the context of a three year program

Reply to emmaverybo (Reply #11)

Tue Feb 11, 2020, 05:05 AM

Feb 2020

to increase educational and job opportunities for young black and Latino men, recognizing that the reason for the higher crime rates was because of the opportunities they were being denied.

See post 8 above.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Bloomberg won 1st precinct in NH as a write in aeromanKC Feb 2020 #1

Yea that doesn't make us look good. phleshdef Feb 2020 #6

Trump is losing his own party aeromanKC Feb 2020 #7

CANT WAIT for the Bernie-Billionaire Bloomberg matchup once Joe quits the race...BRING IT!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2020 #2

I sure hope he didn't call them safeinOhio Feb 2020 #3

But what he did worse than anything he said, which was bad enough, was to enforce the racially emmaverybo Feb 2020 #4

He did worse, implement stop and frisk and then act like he didn't know how horrible it was uponit7771 Feb 2020 #13

stop. Bernie will LOSE. STOP trying to bail him out. EveHammond13 Feb 2020 #5

And the context of that tape is that Bloomberg nine years ago announced a three year program pnwmom Feb 2020 #8

Do people think black voters don't know white politicians are racist? (nt) Recursion Feb 2020 #9

Yes, all white politicians are not racist or not racist enough to make life horrible for PoC uponit7771 Feb 2020 #14

that lets them off the hook KayF Feb 2020 #19

I think he has by far the best chance of beating Trump... Kablooie Feb 2020 #10

"Those things from the past" are especially relevant today given Trump's racist policies. Do we not emmaverybo Feb 2020 #11

Those statements from the past were in the context of a three year program pnwmom Feb 2020 #12

That doesn't fix "no one asked me about stop and frisk" callousness from Bloomberg. That's a game uponit7771 Feb 2020 #15

He needs to debate padah513 Feb 2020 #16

+1 uponit7771 Feb 2020 #17

Sad to say.... NedBraden Feb 2020 #22

The policy began under Giuliani and Bloomberg has apologized for continuing it. pnwmom Feb 2020 #18

He didn't apologize for claiming "no one asked me about stop and frisk" till he ran for president uponit7771 Feb 2020 #20

what we have now Nikki28 Feb 2020 #21

One of the things that turns me off to "progressives" is... wyldwolf Feb 2020 #23