It’s been over a month since the New York City Mayoral election and I have one message for losing Democrat Freddy Ferrer and his camp: let it go. Roberto Ramirez, advisor to the once Bronx Borough President, said that a Sunday Times Magazine picture that showed Freddy wearing a guayabera and Mayor Michael Bloomberg wearing a suit, made Freddy look like a stereotype. According to a Village Voice article

A Ferrer aide explained that the candidate had gone to the Times photo shoot in a suit and changed into the guayabera afterward because he was heading to a parade. The photographer asked him for quick shots as he was leaving.

Michael Bloomberg beat Freddy Ferrer at the polls in November by a 40 percent margin. Now it may have been bias for the millionaire mayor to be photographed in his suit against a guayabera wearing Rican, because well many non-Latinos may not get that a guayabera is a traditional shirt, considered dressy even (my father wore one at his second wedding). But do you really want people to believe that it was that and not say um Freddy’s lack of a real plan for anything that made him lose the race? The clothes do not make the man. The actions do and he just had no game.

Via / The Village Voice