The Daily Background

Turns out there’s a few scraps left over from the NYC transit strike last week. At the time, I also blogged about Mayor Bloomberg, and called him a son of a bitch, for not supporting workers rights. A rich white man ruling over the most ethnically diverse city in the entire world. Today:

Four days after the city’s transit strike ended, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was still coming under fire for his use of the word “thuggishly” to describe the actions of the leaders of a union that is mostly minority.

Michael Bloomberg, don’t be nasty and mean,” attorney Norman Siegel said Monday, standing on the steps of City Hall. “Be positive. Together, we can improve race relations in New York.”

The civil rights attorney noted that more than 70 percent of the Transport Workers Union’s 33,000 members are “of color.” And while he didn’t believe Bloomberg’s use of the word was in itself racist, Siegel said, “The perception out there is that it is racist. And the reaction has enormous racial overtones.”

AP has the full story.

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