New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has suggested he is open to pay Reparations for slavery in the city.
“We often think about slavery and the complicity in slavery as being exclusively to certain geographic areas of the country. Here in New York City, we were very complicit, and so I look forward to whatever those findings are,” Mamdani said in an interview with The Root released Tuesday.
“I can’t give you an answer in advance of them, but I can tell you that this is critically important because this is also what it looks like to acknowledge what history truly was,” he said.
Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has pushed progressive policy during his time in politics, and his possible support for Reparations would continue this trend.
Since slavery ended in the U.S., there have been efforts to create Reparations have been ongoing. Advocates for Reparations have noted Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15, known as “40 acres and a mule,” an 1865 directive that never reached fruition.
If New York City proceeds with Reparations, it might face legal trouble from the federal government.
The Justice Department attempted to intervene in a federal lawsuit against a Chicago suburb’s housing Reparations program for Black residents, calling it “racially discriminatory” and unconstitutional.
According to the department, the program went against the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and the Fair Housing Act.
One word. taqiyya. Lying sanctioned by Allah. Basically it means kiss the infidels butts until you accomplish the will of Mohammed.
This is a tratior who is out to divide and rule. It is his Islamic teaching to install hatred in the minds of peaceful citizens. NYers please don't fall for this madman poison. He has a million uneducated voters and think he can out pace the next 7M in the city. Lets get together and pull this islamic socialist out of NEW YORK. GOD BLESS
New York can do a hella lot better; many people would leave if they could
As I recall my history, the Irish were the largest group of Indentured Servants (slaves) in Nieu Amsterdam / New York City. And are not the Islamists the largest group of enslavers in history and contemporary?