He made and retracted, through a spokesman, a bizarre remark accusing Mr. de Blasio of running a "racist" campaign featuring his biracial family.
That's right — below the poorly painted and vaguely racist mural featuring a swarthy gondolier is our own miniature version of Rome's famous Trevi Fountain.
Of course, that kind of discipline is easier to discuss than to deliver: Mr. Bloomberg has repeatedly engaged in pointed critiques of the mayoral candidates this year, at times to his own detriment, like when he described Mr. de Blasio's campaign as "racist" for featuring his biracial family.
If the tech industry cannot lead when it comes to equality, especially in the midst of an unprecedented entrepreneurial revival, we may not be any better than the misogynist and racist characters featured in 1920s American literature.
A fraternity at the University of California-Irvine apologized this week for a "racist" video featuring a member in blackface.
In light of the recent release of an undeniably, disgustingly racist video featuring members of a fraternity at our university, we the student-athletes of the University of Oklahoma football team have met to discuss the issues that are at the heart of this matter.
Jared Taylor, publisher of American Renaissance, a website that regularly features racist screeds, says that he is not a white supremacist, a Nazi or a racist.
The anonymous comments section of our local newspaper regularly features racist language, and a white student recently received only probation for threatening to "shoot every black person" he saw.
A photograph of a bumper sticker that features racist, anti-Obama language has gone viral on Facebook and other social networks.
Then, McCann-Erickson India created three advertisements for Hanes, the underwear company, featuring racist words and anti-gay slurs that were published in the Free Press Journal.
