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uponit7771

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Tue Feb 18, 2020, 07:18 AM Feb 2020

Bloombergs - Racial Profiling, Multiple Racist statements about crime & Minorities, CP5 .. [View all]

... intimating Redlining as a reason for the financial crisis, spying on Muslims and pretty much no recent indicator of mindset change other than a lie saying "... no one told me about stop and frisk ..."

Will Bloomberg's recent issues with non-whites suppress minority turnout?

The aforementioned was the last ten years, not 20 - 30 years ago and just last year Bloomberg was defending racial profiling in Stop and frisk and it's one of the reasons why Bloomberg does the worst with blacks according to recent Yahoo/YouGov polling - https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/we97h9ywxh/20200213_yahoo_primary_crosstabs.pdf

How is Bloomberg different from Corbin in that in the UK in that Corbin happened to a turnoff to a huge segment of Labor voters and the didn't show up to vote?


I think these are fair questions


What say you?

thx in advance for any input

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Bloomberg commercials on radio as well as tv is 24/7 . . . Iliyah Feb 2020 #1
Ask Corbin from the UK, "the other guy is evil" wasn't enough to overcome Corbins lack of appeal uponit7771 Feb 2020 #3
It's what he will do in the future that matters. TheCowsCameHome Feb 2020 #2
Mike was defending racial profiling just last year, I'm supposed to believe he's changed his mind.. uponit7771 Feb 2020 #4
Let him take his platform straight to the minority community TheCowsCameHome Feb 2020 #6
I am one of they and the polling already says he's doing horrible among Minority voters. I'll uponit7771 Feb 2020 #8
"Black voters are our base" got thrown out the window awfully fast Sympthsical Feb 2020 #5
Yes cherryinpa Feb 2020 #7
Amen cherryinpa! Devil Child Feb 2020 #19
No. See post 11. Squinch Feb 2020 #12
Thank you! It sure did. jcmaine72 Feb 2020 #22
I'll cast a vote for Biden to keep him in Sympthsical Feb 2020 #24
Bloomberg's policies on 'public school reform' up for posting: appalachiablue Feb 2020 #9
Jus damn, uponit7771 Feb 2020 #14
I predict that Bloomberg will be Teflon - everything will bounce off him. patricia92243 Feb 2020 #10
Bloomberg's money needs to talk louder then cause he's doing horrible among blacks. People uponit7771 Feb 2020 #15
On the other hand, Bloomberg reduced the number of murders of young black men by 50% at a time Squinch Feb 2020 #11
He could've done that without the racism, that's what gets me he didn't need it. uponit7771 Feb 2020 #13
They all could have done it without racism. None of them did. Squinch Feb 2020 #18
... and all of them have SHOWN to have changed minds Bloomberg has not apologized for uponit7771 Feb 2020 #21
And the fact that 50% more young black men are alive and 40% fewer New Yorkers are in jail Squinch Feb 2020 #23
I wish Biden would do an ad LeftTurn3623 Feb 2020 #16
+1 uponit7771 Feb 2020 #17
+2 n/t Devil Child Feb 2020 #20
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