GA City Council Denounces Mayor’s Dog-Whistle Rant Against People Who ‘TAKE TAKE TAKE’

Georgia’s Bloomingdale City Council distanced itself from Mayor Ben Rozier’s dog-whistling Facebook post on Wednesday in which he invoked anti-black stereotypes to rail against those who “TAKE TAKE TAKE” from taxpayers through public assistance programs.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1315449

Cue Rozier’s “I’m sorry if any one was offended” and “I have many black friends” in 3 … 2 …

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Another reminder that

True ugliness is self-inflicted.

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In a town of a little over 2700 people do they all share that black friend?

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Back in the day, they used to rent him by turns.

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wearing $300 Beats headphones

Is the new “she’s driving a Cadillac” or “buying lobster and steak?”

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We have to take our victories where we find them, I’m both pleased and completely surprised the City Counsel knew the Mayor’s remarks were offensive and decided to actually speak out. I’m guessing they will take a lot more heat than the Mayor.

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I will guarantee that the mayor and his town are takers.

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privilege is “wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance,” “having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or school you don’t pay for,” and “living in public subsidized housing where you don’t have a water bill.”

Grant the Mayor even that idealized life of “privilege” and he would be begging to give it up within 48 hours.

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It sounds like he really didn’t take to learning much.

And it’s not his first rodeo: https://www.wtoc.com/story/38022834/bloomingdale-mayor-accused-of-racist-comments-on-facebook/ .

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I’m pretty sure the ones taking are the ones inflating their profits by keeping costs low by paying the working poor so little that they need to live on public assistance. If you are a billionaire and even one of your employees is on public assistance, then you owe the taxpayers…and that employee…a big fat check.

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For a minute I thought he was referring to the Trump family.

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Yes, people are tired of those who:

Take a knee on the neck of an unarmed black man, killing him…

Take aim & shoot a black man in the back who civilly dealt with police for an hour before triggering a cop to hand-fucc him…

Take the life of a black woman peacefully sleeping in her own bed…

Take a 75-year old man and knock him to the ground…

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Oh, ouch.

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I’m surprised the mayor didn’t go with having an iPhone.

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Ironic coming from someone in Georgia, one of the Red State parasites sucking up Blue State tax revenue.

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This fucking racist cannot fathom that

  • the 0.001% are fucking him over too, with a governmental structure weighted against non-multi-millionaires**

  • these same 0.001%ers would not be caught in the same room with him, without security personnel

**whenever I assigned my American students to do reports on the specifics of other countries, they would be astounded when they saw the maternity, retirement, medical, holiday and other benefits for the general public not present here

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Ooooooohhhhh… you’re preaching the truth now just because you can, pastor!:raised_hands::raised_hands::raised_hands:

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Privilege is “having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or school you don’t pay for,”

They’ll be wanting sinful abortions next, now that we gave them prayer-free public schools. Sin begets sin(also earphones).