Mike Bloomberg, a candidate who kicked off his campaign with an apology for discriminatory stop-and-frisk policing when he was mayor of New York City, will continue efforts to build support in black and brown communities with a speech on racial wealth disparities -- and an acknowledgement of his own
white privilege -- in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the Sunday of Martin Luther King, Jr., weekend.
The location where Bloomberg has chosen to deliver the speech is significant -- though inspired by one of the lesser-known pages of history. He’ll be speaking in a Tulsa neighborhood that once was home to an affluent black community thriving with black-owned businesses and known as"Black Wall Street," until it was burned to the ground by a mob of white rioters in 1921.
Despite having their businesses and homes destroyed, many of the black residents of the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, where the riots happened, were also arrested and murdered. Historical accounts estimate between 100 to 300 people were killed."A theft of labor and a transfer of wealth -- enshrined in law and enforced by violence.
Stop and frisk, the controversial policing strategy that Bloomberg apologized for because of its disproportionate effect on black and brown men in New York City while he was mayor, is not mentioned in the plan. The campaign plans to address criminal justice in a separate plan, according to a senior adviser.
By comparison, the candidates who have housing plans largely focus on funds to build new housing, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., whose plan would cost $500 billion, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, whose plan calls for around $430 billion, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt.,whose plan calls for $2.5 trillion.
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