TURNING BACK" THE HANDS OF TIME: POLITICS & THE
PULPIT
During a remembrance of “Bloody Sunday,” in Selma’s Brown
Chapel AME Church, white and Black voters assembled there stood and turned
their backs on Mike Bloomberg in a protest to the democrat candidate that
echoed the dignified, justified determination of the Civil Rights Movement.
Bloomberg, who’s own words has demonstrated his racist
beliefs regarding minorities and crime, was there to give a speech marking the
55th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when police attacked peaceful civil rights
marchers in downtown Selma, Alabama.
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 multi-million-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
stopped-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.” (Source:CP)
