Buy Black or Else
Apparently the buy black movement is growing and there are real consequences if you don’t.
Joyce Johnson, the former president and CEO of the nonprofit Black Equity Alliance, said its board of directors ousted her after she endorsed Bloomberg in March.
Bloomberg, an independent, could find himself running against Democratic city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who is black.
Johnson said a board member told her “it would not look good” for the president of the BEA to endorse Bloomberg.
BEA, which supports black and poor communities in the city, objected because Bloomberg is “white and Jewish,” according to a suit Johnson has filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
She alleged the organization wants to “thwart, even by unlawful means, if necessary, the re-election of Mayor Bloomberg based on his race.”
Buying black and selling out blacks. Progress indeed.