The toehr day New York City's Mayor Bloomberg said that the transit workers union "thuggishly turned their backs on the city." He is now being attacked as a racist for that comment by many people, including Al Sharpton.

The leadership among African-Americans has given their people such a low expectation of themselves that they now associate the word "thug" with their race, whereas the rest of associate that word with people who act like thugs. In this particular case the thuggery comes in for the way they are holding the city hostage and hurting other people's income for their own selfish reasons.