{"id":2035,"date":"2007-01-22T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T18:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/and_the_ford_foundation_is_named_for_a_virulent_anti-semit_the_horror.html"},"modified":"2007-01-22T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T18:14:53","slug":"and_the_ford_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/and_the_ford_fo.html","title":{"rendered":"And The Ford Foundation Is Named For A Virulent Anti-Semit . . . The Horror!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many Brooklyn Paper reporters does it take to write a cheap and easy gotcha piece? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/3\/30_03blood_money.html\">Three<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The future home for the Brooklyn Nets will be emblazoned with the corporate logo of a British bank that was founded on the slave trade, collaborated with the Nazis and did business with South Africa&#8217;s apartheid government.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner announced his mega-deal with Barclays Bank on Thursday &#8212; but critics slammed the developer for plastering the controversial bank&#8217;s name atop the arena after having courted African-American support for his mega-development.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, Mayor Bloomberg joined Ratner and Barclays CEO Bob Diamond to officially announce the deal.<\/p>\n<p>When a Brooklyn Paper reporter asked Diamond about his company&#8217;s historic connection to the slave trade and apartheid, Bloomberg jumped in and, answering for Diamond, said: &#8220;Barclays is a great corporation. We could not have picked a better one. Barclays is as good as we could have found.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that Barclays and Ratner would work together to rebuild basketball courts all over Brooklyn &#8212; and then abruptly closed the press conference without allowing follow-up questions, or even letting Diamond answer the original question.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Brooklyn Paper reporters does it take to write a cheap and easy gotcha piece? Three: The future home for the Brooklyn Nets will be emblazoned with the corporate logo of a British bank that was founded on the slave trade, collaborated with the Nazis and did business with South Africa&#8217;s apartheid government. Atlantic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-grandstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}