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Bloomberg's Word Choice Still Under Fire

NEW YORK - 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."

You have simply got to be kidding me.

Irony number one is this jackass lawyer tying folks 'of color' and the word "thuggishly" together. Bloomberg didn't do that sir, you did.

Irony number two, is it now racist whenever one tells an unpleasant truth about someone, in this instance, not even necessarily someone of color. Just an unpleasant truth.

So the next step of course is suing people for telling a hard truth.

Tell me, where does this madness stop?

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