There wouldn't be OP after OP here about how he needs to drop out or how he is finished?

when Joy Behar asked him if the Pope had invited him to the Vatican. The number of OPs about that is gargantuan. I'm certain it would be the same or even worse if Sanders had used this joke even if it were with one of his surrogates like Nina Turner, Killer Mike, or Cornel West.

Just an observation. Your 2 cents may vary.

Smh.

Trashing thread.

Come on, you have to be kidding.

Really? This is the most progressive Mayor New York City has ever had. He has an African-American wife and children.

This is just a ridiculous and embarrassing accusation. You really should be ashamed at your ignorance.

And I'm voting for Sanders next Tuesday, despite your idiotic OP.

For the record, I'm mixed. I don't give a fuck if De Blasio is the reincarnation of the Hare fucking Krishna, that isn't ok.

Not saying it's ok. Just sayin' he's no racist, which is the implication of the OP. It's bullshit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/baratunde-thurston/black-history-month-an-ex_b_472959.html

It just kinda starts sticking in my craw when I hear people who clearly aren't black going off like that, and sure, maybe it's a bit of a double standard, but it always provokes a double take. Carry on, mate.

ETA: It's... Hard to explain how I see it, but it's kinda like-- by his works, he's a progressive politician-- but he's getting too comfortable, as my cousin would have said about countless friends he and I mutually knew.

No matter who he's married to, he's not black. Best not to go there IMO. I don't think he meant any harm, but it was unnecessary.

I said he used a racist joke. (I'm aware he ignored me, but for the benefit of others reading)

Five, at least.

Where Hillary was last week in her leather outfit?

If not, then she shouldn't have done it at ALL.

I don't really care where Hillary goes. Not sure she can really get away with leather outfits though.

would get you laughed off the site.

No pass.

He wasn't "explaining" anything

It's the Hillary and Bill minstrel show. All that's missing is the black face and ba-da-boom of the cymbals.

Eff that and them.

Well I am far less offended by this statement than by the lack of good humor. This was just so uneasy and hard to watch. It oozed fakeness. I am sure the drawer was stuck because their self-respect had hidden in there to get away and locked it from the inside so they couldn't find it. For one it was a play on words, it depends on the audience and on the intent. If they are not using ti to bemoan a group it seems harmless. This one was done just for the punch line and perhaps to give Hillary cred from a mayor that is in a mixed relationship. I have made plenty of CP jokes with my extended family, I think it helps people bond to use some of the same vernacular. CP is used in varying forms in multiple countries. You can't get away from the jokes with African relatives, and I have heard it from Indian's as well when talking about making appointments back in India. (can't remember if they called it CP exactly, but it was the same thing).

Often a joke is not seen as bad when it is made by people who are part of the community that the joke references but if an outsider does it especially of a group that in the past oppressed it comes of as off-color.

There are certain words as a gay man that I am not comfortable with straight people calling me, while I will use those words among friends in an endearing way.

I find that he was more ok to say it, and it seems like it was written by the younger guy (not sure, perhaps because it read like a school play in how clunky it was). That is my own bias there, but I guess the thing I had not thought about is that he was kind of selling his part of the community for political gain, that is a bit less cool. What was the audience? It is was in a majority mixed or minority group it would make more sense to make such a joke, since it was just playing to the crowd.

Why would he participate in this offensive stunt??

Is this Hillary's Dean scream? Sometimes she seems to be self destructive.

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Note to De Blasio: Having a mixed-race family does NOT give you a pass to use bigoted, racist, insensitive jokes.

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A day or so before this "Inner Circle" event, one of Hillary's handlers reviews the script, because you know she does this.

Staffer: Madam, this one joke concerns me.
Clinton: Oh, my. Oh, this isn't good, this is very insensitive and inappropriate, we can't do this.
Staffer: What shall we do?
Clinton: Get de Blasio's office on the phone, I need to tell him that this has to go or I won't be part of it.

But that conversation never happened.