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Mayor Bloomberg spent Memorial Day at a number of different events in Queens and spoke about a number of issues:
The City Council proposal to name a street after Sonny Carson
He called it "probably the worst idea the City Council, anybody in the City Council, has had in recent memory." City Councilman Charles Barron, who supports part of Gates Avenue in Brooklyn to be named after the black activist, told the Daily News, "Tell the mayor to take a walk through Brooklyn and see the name of Thomas Jefferson, a slave-holding pedophile, and tell me he is better than Sonny Carson."
Immigration legislation
Bloomberg called the temporary worker provision "a joke," adding, "Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.” But he did think the bill was a "big step forward."
Congestion pricing
Who on the Mayor's speechwriting team will take credit for connecting pollution and war? The Post called the link "tenuous," and here's what Bloomberg said: "Our soldiers are fighting so that we have our freedoms. Unless you have good health, you're not going to be around to enjoy them. The pollution that's going into the air today is causing our kids in a lot of neighborhoods in New York City to have four times the national asthma rate."
Bloomberg also asked people to remember Queens soldiers who had died last year and said, "There's a very serious purpose here, and that's to remember those who since the founding of this country had been fighting and dying to let us get together."
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"Tell the mayor to take a walk through Brooklyn and see the name of Thomas Jefferson, a slave-holding pedophile, and tell me he is better than Sonny Carson."
pedophile?
that said...how does one present a point of comparison like that without resorting to grandstanding? (i don't think its possible myself, because the comparison is worthless. plenty of streets are named after plenty of people, mostly dead.)
Let them name it. like you white people would ever visit or ever see that street in your lifetime.
What's next? David Duke St?
Everyone knows Jefferson owned slaves. That isn't the reason we celebrate him. Barron is an idiot.
somewhere in the world someone made a David Duke street sign. so, this just evens it out.
there's also, dragging an innocent victim on the back of a pick up truck street sign.
Tell the mayor to take a walk through Brooklyn and see the name of Thomas Jefferson, a slave-holding pedophile, and tell me he is better than Sonny Carson
Yeah, because nothing gets your point across better than tearing down another historic figure, you idiotic tool.
Barron has a point, I BET the mayor never set foot in his district.
God bless You Charles Barron.
here's a historic figure, racist Amerika.
how's that for history?
If America is so racist, then why is it we got so many indians, mexicans, haitians, cubans, and asians trying so desperately to get here? Face da troof.
Desparately? I think not Stan.
There's fool's gold here and it should be passed for countries with higher standard of Life, such as Sweden, Finland and even our neighbors to the North.
except redneckville Calgary which is basically a racist cowboy harley davidson hell's angel's town.
yes, Amerika is racist but like porn, one can't exactly prove it, we have to chip away at it. One day a racist will slip and we got him.
God Bless You Councilman Barron, you keep up the good work, ya'hear. we appreciate what you do.
"Desparately? I think not Stan."
Yea, that's why they run over the border, pay smugglers to get them in, and now are begging for a citizenship, right? Cause they are anything but desperate. As for Sweden, they have a bit of an immigration problem which is collapsing their welfare system at the moment, I wouldn't expect you to know that, but would be kind of cool of you to immigrate there.
As for Barron, he's just another uncle tom, cashing that gov't check and keeping his people in line. Come on, man. It's obvious :)
Thomas Jefferson:
* Wrote the Declaration of Independence
* Began the official position of the separation of Church and State.
* Third President of our Country
* First Secretary of State
* Founded University of Virginia
* Founded of Library of Congress
* Governor of the State of Virginia
* Banned slavery in Virginia in 1807
Sonny Carson:
* Played the race card to perfection.
* Had a movie made after him.
Yeah, I see the comparison..
Countries like Sweden and Canada exist in their present form entirely because they can sell goods to the US. Make fun of places like Calgary but if the Western Provinces didn't sell oil and timber to the US the Canadians would never be able to pay for their welfare state. And the Western Provinces pay more in taxes to Ottawa than they gate back.
And Western Europe is incredibly racist. You don't see it because most minorities live in projects away from the city centers and the museums and cafes that the tourists never stray far from.
then F canada too, they are getting as racist as the U.S.
the cowboys from calgary can do some butt wrangling while they are at it.
God Bless our councilman Barron. He's truly blessed.
hey i know i'm just interrupting the sound of the internet butting its head against itself like one of those bad "visionary" psychedelic posters you can buy from an alex grey knockoff, but the issue is that the comparison is pointless.
it's used because it obviously carries emotional and rheotrical weight; i.e. politics. but who should streets be named after if not those dead who are to be lionized (in a very small way, after all) by the living?
barron is a pro-black leftist, and outside of the pedophile bit his rhetoric is to be expected. this is part of his routine, much like marty markowitz is contractually obligated to connect all natural phenomena with brooklyn. as amusing as it is to bring up unrelated bits, like playing host to mugabe or his utterly misinformed views on european immigration in the late 19th century, it doesn't actually answer any questions.
if people, and especially white people, learned to treat the word racist as just another insult, public discussions might not get stuck in the 3rd grade all of the time. we can bring things up to the 5th grade and start playing dodgeball!
"then F canada too"
Shouldn't you be studying for your regents? Well, at least you are off the streets :P
Treat the word racist?
what planet are you from, how bout systemic racism all throughout the history of the United States?
Until your people were strung up and looked at upon with amusement like a Coney Island Sideshow.
Then we can talk.
"how bout systemic racism all throughout the history of the United States?"
*yawn*
No reply, I see. sure, go for the yawn and the blah blah blah.
have fun sir, what I love about racists are their big mouths. one day, yours will slip and the public will know the real you.
I hope your children are healthy.
That's laughable. What makes me a racist, exactly?
I love it when people claim the monopoly on victimhood. Whine away. Glad you have an excuse for everything. Hope you won't have to use it much.
Still nothing. blah blah blah,
victimhood, culture, whine, race card, excuses.
any more buzz words? I hope your children will be healthy. Lots of bad stuff out there. Hope you don't live in a future superfund site. or will see six fingers on your children or some crazy exo skeleton brain.