Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg won re-election Tuesday, but voters were less enthusiastic about him than the last time he ran in 2005. The mayor did well in high-income white areas of Manhattan and Queens, and also in election districts dominated by immigrants, like Flushing and Brighton Beach. But his vote fell sharply in black neighborhoods, especially southeast Queens, where the black middle class has been hard-hit by foreclosure.
It has nothing to do with foreclosure. God damn it, media, stop pinning it to everything but the obvious.
Black people vote for black candidates.
Period.
It amazes me the lengths the media goes to to explain a trend that’s as obvious as the color of people’s skin. They tried it when Obama was elected, and they tried it again now.
Just say it, already.
