New York’s Mamdani Plays the Race Card
Well, of course.
Now comes the news out of New York City that its Democrat mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has released what he calls his “Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan.”
The mayor’s press release headlines: “Mayor Mamdani Releases Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan and True Cost of Living Measure.”
The release says:
NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani today released the Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan (REP) and the inaugural NYC True Cost of Living (TCOL) Measure, two reports that together establish a new framework for how New York City measures affordability, understands inequity and plans for a more equitable future.
The Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan is the first governmentwide racial equity framework in the city’s history, outlining data-driven agency goals, strategies and indicators to address long-standing disparities across public policy, services and practices. The True Cost of Living Measure, spearheaded by the Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice in collaboration with the Urban Institute and the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, provides a clear picture of what New Yorkers need to meet essential needs and achieve foundational economic security.
Both reports were mandated by successful voter referendums in 2022. You can download and review the Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan and the True Cost of Living Measure.
Together, the two reports make clear that New York City’s affordability crisis is deeply tied to its history of racial inequity. Patterns of disinvestment, exclusion from homeownership, unequal access to health care and employment and concentrated environmental burdens have shaped who has resources, who faces the greatest costs and who remains most economically insecure today.
Critics were quick to get to the heart of what this is really all about: promoting racism. Fox reported: “‘The reality is Mamdani is implementing blatantly racist policies that reward and punish people based on their skin color,’ conservative commentator Paul A. Szypula posted on X.”
Fox also headlined this: “NYC landlords fire back at ‘racist’ Mamdani aide’s claim that ties homeownership to ‘White supremacy.’”
The Fox reporter in this story said:
New York City landlords are sharply criticizing remarks from a top housing official in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration who previously linked homeownership to white supremacy, calling the comments “racist” and dismissive of immigrant property owners.
Good for those NYC landlords. There is nothing racist about owning a house. (RELATED: Mamdani Attempts Sleight of Hand With Rental Ripoff Hearings)
But it is important here to understand the background of the Democrat elites that led to this kind of blatantly racist policy-making. So step into the time travel capsule with me, and we’ll go back to, yes, the very beginning of the Democrats’ party and what they said in their very first platform in, yes, 1840. The platform said, among other things, this — with bold print for emphasis supplied:
Resolved, That congress has no power, under the constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states, and that such states are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the constitution; that all efforts by abolitionists or others, made to induce congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend to our political institutions.
Got that? Right off the bat, from the moment of their first organizing, the Democrats were supporting racism in its rawest form. Which is to say: they were supporting slavery.
And as history records, this support for the outright racism that was slavery was outlawed in the Emancipation Proclamation by Republican President Abraham Lincoln during that skirmish history records as the Civil War. When that ended, slavery ended. But Democrats then rallied around the decidedly racist flag of segregation. Their devotion to segregation carried all the way into the 20th century’s 1960s. Recall, here was Alabama Democrat Governor George Wallace using his 1963 inaugural address as governor to proclaim: “I draw a line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.”
Which is to say? Whether with the Democrat platform in 1840, or with Alabama Governor George Wallace’s inaugural address a full 123 years later in 1963, or with today’s Democrat New York Mayor Mamdani and his “Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan,” judging Americans by their skin color is at the very core of Democrat Party principles.
From the beginning of the party’s history to this moment, as now personified by Mayor Mamdani, race is what they always seem to care about.
The question now is whether Mamdani will get away with this. Or not?
Stay tuned.
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