Oh — Bloomberg touted the same “people of color caused the housing crisis” canard that the Tea Party and Republicans went on to use? Cool, cool.
Here’s the clip:
The talking point was scurrilous, of course — motivated reasoning by Republicans determined to let the financial sector off the hook. Don’t take my word on that; take an expert’s:
Or another expert’s.
More video of Bloomberg mouthing the same garbage talking point:
Another expert whose word you can take on the falsity of Bloomberg’s “people of color caused the housing crisis” talking point:
When a billionaire who imagines himself as the Democratic nominee for president somehow requires a lesson that redlining was bad, @ewarren has a plan for that.
@ewarren Ah, here's another expert to set Bloomberg straight about who caused the financial crisis: the finance sector, not people of color.
@ewarren When your tweet gets picked up by the candidate … 😍
.@ewarren: “[The financial] crisis would not have been averted if the banks has been able to be bigger racists. And anyone who thinks that should not be the leader of our party.”
Darned right.
Darned right.
