By Kevin Palmer
Augusta, Georgia Mayor Hardie Davis showed his true color by his endorsement of presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mayor Davis’s political advancement was more important than Bloomberg’s racist policy.
In a New York Times article, You Must Never Vote for Bloomberg, African American columnist Charles M. Blow wrote, “No Black person or Hispanic person should ever consider voting for Michael Bloomberg in the primary. His expansion of the notoriously racist stop-and-frisk program in New York, which swept up millions of innocent New Yorkers, primarily young Black and Hispanic men, is a complete and nonnegotiable deal killer. Bloomberg used the fear factor to keep White New Yorkers in his corner. He insisted that stop-and-frisk was keeping them safe. However, nearly 90 percent of the people who were stopped and frisked were innocent of any wrongdoing.”
For politicians like Mayor Davis, Mr. Blow goes on to say, “Anyone who would support Bloomberg is complicit in his terror campaign against those young Black and Hispanic men, and dismissive of their pain. If you support Bloomberg, I want nothing to do with you. Nothing!
An opportunity to serve in a president’s administration makes it easy for a self-serving politician to dismiss the oppressed minority’s pain.
