Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg once claimed in an interview that a large number of black and Latino males "don’t know how to behave in the workplace."
Bloomberg said, "For a long time people have said there is nothing you can do about (racial disparities). Blacks and Latinos score terribly in school testing compared to whites and Asians. If you look at our jails, it’s predominantly minorities ... If you look at where crime takes place, it’s in minority neighborhoods … who the victims and the perpetrators are, it’s virtually all minorities."
Later on, he added, "We’ve done a number of these kinds of things to try and attract the kind of jobs that are available to people, who maybe don’t have a formal education … or don’t have great command of the English language or have a blemish on their resume ... Nevertheless, there’s this enormous cohort of black and Latino males, age 16-to-25 that don’t have jobs, don’t have any prospects, don’t know how to find jobs … (and) don’t know how to behave in the workplace."