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At this breakfast, [Rudy Giuliani] began to speak in his own inimitable racial code. Giuliani made veiled threats of what would occur if someone "like" Bill Thompson became mayor. Giuliani alluded to what the city was like prior to his despotic reign that began in 1993.
He continued to play on that ultra-conservative Jewish community's fears by bringing up the Holocaust: "I think, you know, because of the presence of the Holocaust survivors and so many other things, how important this is. So please vote for a mayor that's been there for you... I worried daily that the city migrht be turned back to the way it was before 1993 - and you know exactly what I'm talking about," the former mayor, former would-be-presidential candidate continued. "This community remembers the fears, the worries and the crimes and the great fear of going out at night and walking the streets.""We all know that cities have gone through great boom times and then turned around and collapsed. Take a look at Detroit," he said. "It went from a great city with lots of good-paying jobs to a city that's basically holding on for dear life."What this means is because Bill Thompson is Black, he will not have the best interests of the Jewish or white community at heart. If this wasn't incendiary enough, Bloomberg got into the act, declaring and comparing the unfortunate decline in the city of Detroit's fortunes to what could happen in New York if there was a change in leadership.See the full content of this document
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Talking in Code
In the Obama Age, we are supposed to be "post racial." We are supposed to be in a society that is tolerant of others. We are supposed to be at a point in time in which people are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, and ye...
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