A group of congregants in Selma, Ala., stood up and turned their backs on Mike Bloomberg as the Democratic presidential candidate addressed their church on Sunday. As the former Big Apple mayor delivered his remarks about voter suppression and civil rights to the historic Brown Chapel AME Church, about 10 people silently turned their backs to him and remained standing throughout his address. Others applauded Bloomberg. The Rev. Leodis Strong, the church’s pastor who introduced Bloomberg, said he encouraged the former mayor to come to the church on the 55th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when white state troopers attacked black marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. “I think that it’s important for Mr. Bloomberg, Mayor Bloomberg, to hear from you, listen to you, to learn from you,” Strong said. “Let me just say this. I think it’s important that […]
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