Good news, black and Latinos, Michael Bloomberg is here to tell you how to behave in public.
Another day, another surfaced video in which presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg said something degrading about a marginalized subculture of Americans.
So far this month he's been accused of insulting transgenders, inner-city ethnic minorities, farmers, and women.
It seems like Michael Bloomberg just can't stop putting his foot in his mouth. In a recently discovered recording from PBS in 2011 Michael Bloomberg said "black and Latino males" don't "behave well in the workplace."
While promoting a $127 million, three-year initiative to help minorities in the workplace in 2011, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared that there's "this enormous cohort of black and Latino males" who "don't know how to behave in the workplace" and "don't have any prospects."
The head-turning comments in a resurfaced interview were just the latest headache for the multibillionaire's campaign. In the past week, Bloomberg has been confronted with his previous claims that farming doesn't take much intelligence and that "anybody" could do it, as well as his insistence that the way to get guns "out of the kids' hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them." Additionally, Bloomberg has taken heat for suggesting that a functioning health care system must let the elderly die.
Speaking to PBS in the 2011 interview, Bloomberg noted that he had donated $30 million from his foundation to Open Society Foundations, the network established by liberal billionaire financier Goerge Soros, toward the new plan to enhance employment among minorities.
Taxpayers and Soros himself contributed to the jobs initiative, which set up job recruitment centers in public housing projects, placed probation centers in "high-risk" areas, and linked black and Latino success in schools to Department of Education "progress reports."
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 21: Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum at the Plaza Hotel, September 21, 2016 in New York City. The forum is focused on trade and investment opportunities on the African continent for African heads of government and American business leaders. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)