News Opinons Politics

Black Voters Turn Their Backs on Mike Bloomberg During Church Service

Congregants of a historically black church in Selma, Alabama, turned their backs on Democrat presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg on Sunday as he addressed them.

The protest, which remained silent and peaceful, took place as Bloomberg was giving a speech on the 55th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a day when police attacked black citizens during a civil rights march in the town.

Several images shared to social media on Sunday showed both black and white voters standing with their backs turned to Bloomberg in Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church.



Humanoid robots could patrol southern border, CEO pitches, as futuristic technology moves closer to reality
Men Are Not Women: Stand Up for the Truth
The only map you need to see as California’s billionaire tax fight heats up
Lexington, Kentucky park shooting kills 1, injures 4 during live band performance
Democrats Want ID for Hot Pockets But Not for Voting?
Last-Ditch Effort to Kill Trump Fossil Fuel EOs Goes Down in Flames
Family killer Chris Watts seeks prison marriage with new love interest: report
Why Did Pollsters Get Michigan And Wisconsin Primaries So Wrong?
Jon Ossoff, Georgia’s first Jewish senator, faces angry Jewish voters
Trump’s men at the United Nations
Swing-state’s fraud reckoning raises Minnesota-style alarm as wild schemes exposed
Mundane DOJ Memo on Post Office Gun Bans Is Actually Bigger Deal Than You Think
ICE bought nonlethal shock gloves for officers. Democrats still are not pleased
Americans clash over transgender athletes as debate heats up: ‘Just getting outrageous’
Routine California traffic stop leads to seizure of 30 pounds of cocaine worth more than $800K

According to those who attended the event, former Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams sat behind Bloomberg during his speech.


Humanoid robots could patrol southern border, CEO pitches, as futuristic technology moves closer to reality
Men Are Not Women: Stand Up for the Truth
The only map you need to see as California’s billionaire tax fight heats up
Lexington, Kentucky park shooting kills 1, injures 4 during live band performance
Democrats Want ID for Hot Pockets But Not for Voting?
Last-Ditch Effort to Kill Trump Fossil Fuel EOs Goes Down in Flames
Family killer Chris Watts seeks prison marriage with new love interest: report
Why Did Pollsters Get Michigan And Wisconsin Primaries So Wrong?
Jon Ossoff, Georgia’s first Jewish senator, faces angry Jewish voters
Trump’s men at the United Nations
Swing-state’s fraud reckoning raises Minnesota-style alarm as wild schemes exposed
Mundane DOJ Memo on Post Office Gun Bans Is Actually Bigger Deal Than You Think
ICE bought nonlethal shock gloves for officers. Democrats still are not pleased
Americans clash over transgender athletes as debate heats up: ‘Just getting outrageous’
Routine California traffic stop leads to seizure of 30 pounds of cocaine worth more than $800K

See also  FBI investigated then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions one day after Comey’s firing, declassified documents show

Bloomberg, a former mayor of New York City, has had a history of questionable comments surrounding America’s black community.

In 2011, during the launch of his multimillion-dollar Young Men’s Initiative, Bloomberg claimed black and Latino men “don’t know how to behave in the workplace.”

During Bloomberg’s tenure as New York City mayor, nearly five million individuals, primarily young men of color, were stop-and-frisked.

Bloomberg’s resurfaced comments on stop-and-frisk came during a 2015 speech to the Aspen Institute, where he pushed the idea of cities taking the initiative on instituting and enforcing the gun bans.

Bloomberg said of young minorities, “Throw them against the wall and frisk them,” and admitted that “we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods…. [b]ecause that’s where all the crime is.”

The Aspen Times quoted Bloomberg as saying, “Cities need to get guns out of [the]… hands” of individuals who are “male, minority, and between the ages of 15 and 25.”

Story cited here.
Share this article:
Share on Facebook
Facebook
Tweet about this on Twitter
Twitter