Title: Bloomberg, Biden, Buttigieg and the bunch apologize. Should black voters listen, forgive and vote? Source:
Roll Call URL Source:https://www.rollcall.com/news/opini ... ack-voters-listen-forgive-vote Published:Nov 23, 2019 Author:Mary Curtis Post Date:2019-11-23 11:10:21 by Anthem Keywords:None Views:259
Of course, Michael Bloomberg went there — there being a black church to ask for forgiveness. As he tentatively dips his toe and his billions into the Democratic presidential race, joining a scrum that expands even as it shrinks, Bloomberg, perhaps realizing that the path to the presidency must include the enthusiastic support of black and brown voters, has rethought his enthusiastic support of “stop and frisk.”
“I got something important really wrong,” he told the congregation at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn on Sunday. “I didn’t understand back then the full impact that stops were having on the black and Latino communities.”
