No one should be shocked to learn that a liberal gun grabber is racist. Much of modern welfare is predicated on the "soft racism" of low expectations of minorities. Some is based on the fear that if the welfare money stops flowing to inner cities violence will erupt, or at the very least that various demographics might stop voting for the democrat benefactors.
Bloomberg's statement is racist on two fronts:
1-Even "The Color of Crime" (published by a group frequently accused of racism, but based on FBI crime stats) doesn't claim black young men are responsible for 95% of murders.
2-To use the bad conduct of part of a group as an excuse to mistreat (by denying constitutional rights) the entire group is the typical conduct of racists and other bigots.
Furthermore, let us remember that gun control going back to the early slave codes and coming up through Jim Crow was designed to disarm blacks (as well as recent Irish, Italian, and Catholic immigrants along with other "undesirable" elements of society). This has morphed into socio-economic discrimination rather than overt racism, but those most affected by high-cost, discriminatory permits remain racial minorities.
Sadly, the actual criminals who need to be disarmed are, too often, left to roam the streets rather than being properly convicted and incarcerated because of soft-on-crime policies from Bloomberg's fellow travelers. Indeed, the current mandatory minimum sentences that are of such concern to the DoJ, were a reaction to liberal judges handing far too light of sentences a generation ago.
But we should be able to make use of Bloomberg's racist statements to undercut his credibility with those who may be on the fence about RKBA but who are convinced that minorities are frequently, very poorly treated by the government.
Charles