We Hit Peak 2019

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(12-17-2019, 10:55 AM)fredtoast Wrote: So he was attacked for using "racist language" but no one was calling him a racist?
This is getting ridiculous.  His language was not racist if he did not intend it to be racist.
You all just keep ignoring my main point.  If Bloomberg had made this comment about some random black man he just met then you might have a point.  But he didn't.  he used that language in a way that was clearly not racist.  Yet he was criticized so much he was forced to apologize.  This is nothing but black people calling EVERYONE racist.  And all it does is make white people mad to be called racist when they are not.
White people have to work on not being racist, but black people have to work on not creating racism where it does not exist.

Racist language? I don't know if anyone called it "racist". Booker described it as "tired tropes or the language we have out there that folks I don't think understand". 

He also said “I have a great deal of regard for him as somebody who helped me help the city of Newark. I’m sure Mike gets it now, I hope, and I hope people around him are talking to him about why that plays into what is, for the black community in particular, just these are signs of frustration that we continue to deal with.”

I'm not sure why you're continuing to argue straw men, but in doing so you're bypassing the point and continuing to make lazy generalizations as an excuse.