In case you missed it (I did until it came up on the local news just now), Michael Bloomberg still has a problem with people of color.
Here's a 13 August quote from the NYC mayor's radio show, where he talks about the best way to strip the Haudenosaunee of tribal sovereignty (in this case, by collecting state taxes on cigarettes):
"I've said this to David Paterson, I said, 'You know, get yourself a cowboy hat and a shotgun,'...If there's ever a great video, it's you standing in the middle of the New York State Thruway saying, you know, 'Read my lips - the law of the land is this, and we're going to enforce the law."
Ooookaaaaay.
The Seneca Nation is not pleased.
The Bloomberg administration has refused to apologize, on the grounds that they think that New York State has the right to collect taxes from tribal nations. Apparently the whole "we should kill you and take more of your land" metaphor was a given for these guys. No, not racist at all.
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